A new Mayor's fund is helping the government bring more sustainable low-carbon heating projects to London. The €3.3m Mayor’s Decentralised Energy for London programme will give London boroughs help in bringing decentralised-energy projects to market by providing funding for the assessment of project feasibility and thus assisting in the identification of additional opportunities for the application of decentralised energy projects.

The programme will predominantly look at district heating schemes supplied from combined heat and power (CHP) and sources of waste heat. The Mayor has set a target to supply a quarter of London’s energy from decentralised sources by 2025. Recent government-funded Vital Energi projects have set the benchmark for such schemes. These include an award-winning regeneration of London’s iconic National Sports Centre, a heat-and-power project at Cranston Estate in Hackney, and building the Bunhill Energy Centre to provide cheaper, greener heat to homes in Islington.