'CommuniHeat': East Sussex villagers team up with UK Power Networks on zero carbon heat scheme

Cecilia Keating
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Residents in Barcombe, East Sussex hope to develop a precedent for ‘greener’ home heating that can be emulated by other rural communities

More than 600 households in a village in East Sussex are to take part in a major heat electrification scheme that developers hope can be copied by the millions of rural communities across the UK that are...

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