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