Clyde Gateway – Scotland’s first Green Regeneration & Innovation District
Clyde Gateway takes an integrated approach to infrastructure, carbon management & climate resilience. Our approach considers that each of the following can contribute positively to achieving carbon reduction, including Net Zero, and climate resilience.
Aims
- Remediation of Brownfield Land
- Flood Management
- Surface Water Management
- Greenspace & biodiversity
- Re use and renewal of existing assets
- Building energy performance
- District Heating & Cooling
- Sustainable Transport
It’s important for us to recognise that our regeneration work requires construction and development which may be carbon intensive, but our strategic approach seeks to deliver, in parallel, improvements in air quality through the following: greening; managing surface water and mitigating flooding though thoughtful design; and implementing long term approaches to district heating and cooling to de-carbonise energy. This approach, in combination with our efforts to improve active travel through walking, cycling and encouraging the use of public transport, has seen Clyde Gateway designated as Scotland’s first Green Regeneration & innovation District.
One of our key projects is our Community Energy Project Dalmarnock. This collaborative partnership between Clyde Gateway and Scottish Water Horizons (SWH) has been developed to promote a community-based district heating system, which supplies low cost heat to central Dalmarnock, linked to the existing adjacent Dalmarnock Waste Water Treatment Works (WWTW).
We’ve secured £2.1m to deliver the combined energy centre and distribution network by October 2021.
SWH will deploy Combined Heat & Power technology and work is underway to construct an energy centre to house a CHP engine to provide the full power requirements for the WWTW. This CHP will generate heat supply as a by-product for local use. Clyde Gateway is constructing a 3km heat network which it will own and operate; supplying heat to customers via an operations provider. The Clyde Gateway distribution network can accept heat from multiple sources, so new technology can be integrated when the infrastructure is in place.
The total investment for the project is £6.2m. Clyde Gateway has secured £2.1m from the Scottish Power Energy Networks (SPEN) Green Economy Fund towards the project to deliver the combined energy centre and distribution network by October 2021.