The Balgrayhill and Edgefauld High-rise District Heating System, Glasgow

That the Parliament recognises what it sees as the innovation of ng homes, which is Glasgow’s largest community-run housing association, in commissioning Scotland’s highest district heating system to serve 600 flats at its six 26-storey blocks at Balgrayhill Road and Edgefauld Road in Springburn, Glasgow; notes that the 243-foot high flats, which were officially opened by Prime Minister Harold Wilson in 1968, are the tallest residential buildings in Scotland; understands that the £25 million investment follows a 2016 survey of residents, which suggested that more than 60% were living in fuel poverty; believes that six banks of Mitsubishi air-source heat pumps have been installed on the roof of each tower block by the largest crane in Europe, with the heat generated shared among the flats below using a pumped water piping system with heat exchangers, and that the six independent district heating systems, which work even in sub-zero outside temperatures, will reduce the average cost per unit of energy for tenants by between 40% and 60%, reduce energy use by 64% and reduce overall emissions by more than a third; congratulates ng homes, supported by the Scottish Government’s Social Housing Net-Zero Heat Fund, and its partners, the McDermott Group, Easy Heat Systems and M-Four, on the successful delivery of what it believes is a pioneering engineering project that will reduce fuel poverty and carbon emissions, and supports its adoption as a sustainable heating solution for high-rise residential buildings nationwide.