A number of areas in Nottinghamshire have been named as potential locations for underground hot water plants in a new report. In the report delivered to the Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, Broxtowe, Mansfield, Bassetlaw, Nottingham and Newark and Sherwood have been selected as some of the 45 potential future locations for the plants, which would use natural heat energy found deep underground to heat buildings.
The report, published this week, was conducted by backbench MP Dr Kieran Mullan. He was asked to conduct a review of the potential of deep geothermal energy for the UK by former Prime Minister Boris Johnson and asked to continue the review by Rishi Sunak. Scientific analysis by Durham University has identified Nottinghamshire areas that could host a plant.
Previous research has shown that building a network of plants could contribute 35,000 jobs to the economy by 2050. It also identified an overlap of high-potential sites for deep geothermal and areas identified as suffering from deprivation as part of the levelling up agenda, with Bassetlaw in the top six of local authorities found to have the lowest economic resilience.
