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CEO Estelle Brachlianoff speaking at the launch of Veolia’ s Data Center Resource 360 suite at Outernet London
To do so will require substantial amounts of capital, though. Enter Veolia. The French utility company recently announced a US $ 1.3bn pipeline of district heating projects set to be awarded by 2030 as part of its new Ecothermal Grid offering in the UK market.
Veolia has revealed that it has already secured US $ 273m worth of projects in 2025 alone, with developments planned across Wiltshire, London, Bristol, Yorkshire and Cambridgeshire.
With the government’ s plans to expand district heating, it is thought that the market in the UK could be worth US $ 104bn by 2050.
What are Veolia’ s current district heating projects? Among the company’ s recent achievements is the completion of Phase One of its Southwark 2.0 District Heat Network in south London.
The extension currently provides over 2,500 homes with heat generated from Veolia’ s energy-from-waste plant in the area, saving approximately 8,000 tonnes of CO₂ annually.
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