Vital Energi wins heat network contract

Vital Energi has been awarded the £3.1 million contract to deliver the first phase of the Somers Town heat network in the Euston area of London. It will include a new energy centre and 500 m of district heating. The new energy centre will replace the existing heat main serving four residential blocks and export electricity to the Francis Crick medical-research institute, which is due for completion in 2015/16.

Vital Energi will operate the new boiler plant and heat network for 15 years.

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