Lanchester Wines in Gateshead, northeast England, became the first private business in Britain to draw heat from disused underground coal mines. Two open-loop water source heat pumps with a combined 4-megawatt capacity now heat more than 33,000 square metres of warehouse space. Britain has around 23,000 flooded coal mines, a quarter of which sit beneath homes and businesses.
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Un négociant en vins du nord-est de l’Angleterre chauffe 33 000 m² grâce à d’anciennes mines de charbon

THE GUARDIAN

Lanchester Wines, à Gateshead dans le nord-est de l’Angleterre, est devenu la première entreprise privée de Grande-Bretagne à puiser de la chaleur dans des mines souterraines abandonnées. Deux pompes à chaleur en boucle ouverte d’une capacité combinée de 4 mégawatts chauffent plus de 33 000 m² d’entrepôts. La Grande-Bretagne compte environ 23 000 mines inondées.

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