Vital Energi

Bringing sustainable energy to Britain - An illustrated journey through Vital Energi’s transformation from a district heating specialist in the 1980s to its position today as the UK’s leading provider of sustainable energy generation and carbon reduction solutions.
What’s inside: See for yourself how our low cost and low carbon community energy schemes, encompassing district heating and steam, gas, combined heat and power (CHP), waste-to-energy and biomass technologies, have made major improvements to Britain’s best universities, top city hospitals, largest cities, major housing refurbishment schemes and cutting-edge new housing developments.

Major milestones:

•Nottingham City – UK’s largest district heating network
•Sheffield City – Major UK city heat network
•Shetland Heat & Power – Award-winning waste-to-energy scheme
•Greenwich Millennium Village – First sustainable Millennium Village
•Mayday Hospital – Hospital Energy Centre rescued
•Charles Dickens Estate – Landmark funding for CHP project
•Bonnyrigg Estate – Market changing CHP scheme
•Ross Crescent – First biomass project
•BAA - Heating Europe’s busiest airport
•Natural History and Victoria & Albert Museums – 21st century heating for Victorian museums
•Tachbrook Triangle – Connecting to London’s largest heat network
•Royal Arsenal – First retro-fit into listed building
•Liverpool University – Sustainable heating for university
•MediaCityUK – World’s first BREEAM community
•King’s Cross – Europe’s largest city centre regeneration scheme
•University of York – Sustainable campus expansion
•Greenwatt Way – Pioneering zero carbon community
•Riverside Dene – First retro-fit residential ESCo
•Yarn Street – Affordable heating for eco-settlement
•Commonwealth Games 2014 – Low carbon heating for ‘greenest games ever’
•National Sports Centre – record-breaking CHP engine
•Wyndford – Tackling fuel poverty in Scotland