London 2012 blog

Much of the focus on our plans for the Olympic Park so far have focussed on the main venues we're building for 2012 and beyond, and the new parklands and open areas we're creating to house these new world-class facilities.

But today was my chance to present the latest plans for an important piece of infrastructure that I think will become an iconic part of the Olympic Park in its own right – the Olympic Park wind turbine.

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At Christmas we announced preferred bidder status for the design, build, finance and operate of the Energy Centre and network to a company called Elyo Suez.

The Energy Centre is key to the Olympic Park and for legacy since it will provide all of the hot water, heating, electricity and some of the cooling needs to homes and buildings in the Park. This is instead of having individual systems in each building which are less efficient.

How the Energy Centre will look:



Located at Kings Yard, the centre is key to our Sustainable Development Strategy (SDS). It will provide carbon reduction by using CCHP (Combined Cooling Heat and Power), plus biomass boilers which use waste woodchips to create heat. A historic building in Kings Yard will form part of the Energy Centre and will house the biomass boilers. Part of the building will be converted into a visitors centre after the Games.

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