'Poo power': Thames Water and Kingston Council plot pioneering domestic heating scheme

Cecilia Keating
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Under the plans 2,000 council homes will be powered by low carbon heat generated from effluent at Hogsmill sewage plant in Surrey

Thousands of homes in Kingston could soon take advantage of energy captured from sewage in a pioneering low carbon district heating trial that will channel heat recovered from a local sewage plant to a...

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