Piping Hot
New low-carbon enterprise business brings ‘waste heat’ to new users
Where there’s heat, there’s brass - or should be. That’s the philosophy behind Connective Energy - set up to zero in on factories and other industrial sites, and capture the heat they currently waste. Its speciality will be designing and operating the pipework to deliver steam or hot water to eager would-be users nearby.
It’s rather like retrofitting a combined heat and power solution. And there’s a huge amount at stake. Every year in this country we waste about 45% of the primary energy consumed by industry, in the form of heat released into the environment. According to the Carbon Trust, we could realistically recapture enough to heat Manchester.
Connective Energy brings together engineering giant Mitsui Babcock, ethical bankers Triodos, and Carbon Trust Enterprises - itself a new subsidiary of the Carbon Trust designed to promote joint venture low carbon businesses. - Roger East
16 October 2006
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