A new energy centre is proposed to be built next to new council homes in Greenwich to supply them with heat and hot water.

Greenwich Council said the planned energy centre on Kidbrooke Park Road South would supply 90 per cent of the heat required by the new homes.

Monica, who rents a house in the borough, said she would be annoyed if she owned property: “I will be pissed.  But now I don’t, so I don’t care.”

Ali Demir, who lives near the site of the proposed energy centre, said he thought it was “a very good plan”.

Other elements of the energy centre include an acoustic barrier, substation, stair cone and seating, plating engaging with energy centre. Pic: Greenwich Council

The centre, which would replace two existing electrical substations on the site, will have an energy efficient heat pump to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. It will have an electric boiler and two thermal stores for hot water.

The council has been collating public responses to the proposal. Opinion is mixed with some residents expressing satisfaction with the plan and agreeing that it is “very important that we take steps to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and increase energy efficiency.”  However, most of the people who responded to the survey agreed with the statement: “An energy centre is a good idea but this one is in the wrong place.” The respondents suggested that the energy centre be built either along the boundary with Old Post Office Lane or along the hypotenuse of the triangular plot next to the lowest building.

Greenwich already has several existing energy centres, which supply heat and hot water to residents.  The Optic Cloak or the Greenwich Peninsula Low Carbon Energy Centre serves more than 15,000 homes on the peninsula. Greenwich Millennium Village and Kidbrooke Village also have energy centres.