Powering Parks

Unearthing the ground source heat potential from parks and public green spaces across Great Britain

Our new report shows how putting heat pumps beneath our parks and playing fields could supply enough clean heat to keep the equivalent of 5 million homes warm.  

This would save a massive 8 million tonnes of carbon emissions each year, helping us to tackle climate change, improve air quality and generate income for councils and park authorities to re-invest locally.

Parks are the perfect place to take kids to play, enjoy a quiet stroll or have a kick about. But they cost money to maintain - something councils have less and less of.

Parks are also home to a large amount of ambient heat, stored in the ground below the lawns and playing fields. We can harvest this low carbon thermal energy for our buildings with the help of heat pumps.

A heat pump is a cunning device for collecting the ambient heat all around us - in the air, the ground or bodies of water - concentrating it, and pumping it into spaces we need to warm like schools, leisure centres or housing blocks.

Download the report to see how much heat the parks in your area could provide. If you’re surprised by how much potential your local parks have to help us tackle climate change and warm our buildings, then tell your local council. 

If you work for a local authority and would like to know more about our work installing heat pumps in parks, please get in touch with neil.jones@wearepossible.org