Comberton Village College in Cambridgeshire to get ‘green’ heating

An innovative project to give Comberton Village College greener heating has been agreed.

The year-long scheme, due to start later this month – which will replace the college’s oil-fired boilers with ground source heat pumps – has been agreed between The Cam Academy Trust, Cambridgeshire County Council and renewable and efficient energy company Bouygues E&S Solutions.

Stephen Munday, the trust’s CEO, said: “The Cam Academy Trust is delighted that such a major energy project is to take place at Comberton Village College. With a major grant from national government and support from the county council this has been possible.”

He added: “It will mean that the whole school site will move over from reliance on oil for heating and receive this from ground source in the future. This is environmentally extremely desirable and fits with the Trust’s aim to support environmentally-friendly projects and ways of working.

“In the long run it will also be financially beneficial to the school meaning that more of the school’s funding can be focused where we would want it to be - on education.”