Overview

One quarter of UK home and businesses sit on the coalfields with many of the communities built on mining and being disadvantages by their closure. However, clean energy opportunities from the mines could provide a significant financial, environmental and well-being advantages to these communities in the future.

Following mines being abandoned ground water fills the roadways, galleries and fractures left by the abstraction of some 17 billion tonnes of coal. This mine water is heated by geothermal energy to temperatures of 11-20 °C close to surface, down to 40 °C in lower coal seams. The Coal renewing zero carbon geothermal energy within the workings, enough to heat 180 million homes, 25 times more than are in the coalfields. 

Guest speaker

Jeremy Crooks, Principal Innovations Manager for The Coal Authority

Jeremy's presentation will outline where the energy is coming from, how it can be used, the financial and climate change advantages and what is presently being done in the UK and across the world.

Time

17:30 arrival for a 18:00 start till 19:30.

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