Lanchester Wines, the first private business to use mine water heat in Great Britain, has signed a new access agreement with the Mining Remediation Authority.

Scotland is set for the first of its kind large-scale water source heat pump scheme which will take heat from the river Clyde and use it to provide heating and hot water for a district heating network.

The Department for Energy and Climate Change says that a new online tool for communities has revealed that at least one million homes and businesses across England could be tapping into clean renewable heat embodied in the country's waterways.