Heating bills form a sizeable part of most firms' budgets. A number of Dublin city businesses are considering a new way of radically reducing those bills.
Report shows drilling rig in the car park of the Electricity Supply Board (ESB) headquarters and water gushing from an underground pipe into a bucket.
To camera Alasdair Jackson on the ESB operation to heat their own office with off peak electricity.
Heat pump which will be used to transfer heat from the underground water to buildings.
Interview with Denis Murphy, Manager, Property Services, ESB, who explains how the system should cut costs by half if it works.
Radiator in Trinity College Dublin (TCD) where the idea was developed.
Interview with Tim Cooper, Director of Buildings, TCD, who says using underground water as a heat source saves about £1,000 per day.
Heat pump working.
Interview with Tim Cooper on the efficiency of the system.
Graphic illustrating how the heat pump works.
Heat pump in action.
Drawing of the system.
Interview with Shane O’Neill, Environmental Resources Analysis, who says that up to 150 buildings could be heated from ground water in Dublin city.
Water being drilled.
Offices of the company, Building Technology Applications, who have been designing the heat pump.
ESB headquarters.
Interview with Tim Cooper who explains how the ESB project has the advantage of being a clean source of energy.
The reporter is Alasdair Jackson.
