Question reference: S6W-17863
- Asked by: Ruth Maguire, MSP for Cunninghame South, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: 11 May 2023
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Current status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 24 May 2023
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many homes in Scotland are currently heated by energy recovered from incineration plants.
Answer
Over 1,000 homes are currently heated by heat networks where a significant proportion of the heat provided is from an Energy from Waste plant.
Two further heat networks are currently being built to use heat from Energy from Waste plants which are already in operation or commissioning and situated in Midlothian and Aberdeen. These projects are expected to connect approximately 2,000 homes by 2026, with the capacity to heat significantly more with further extensions of these networks.
All the heat networks (existing or being developed) referred to above are, or will be, connected to existing Energy from Waste plant.
Across all heat sources, approximately 30,000 homes are connected to heat network(s) in Scotland, based on the 2018 Heat Network Metering and Billing Regulation data.