{"id":346443,"date":"2026-01-01T13:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T13:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/346443\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T13:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T13:52:08","slug":"first-cardiff-homes-connected-to-steam-powered-heat-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/346443\/","title":{"rendered":"First Cardiff homes connected to steam-powered heat network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cardiff and Vale College recently became the first building to receive heat from the network. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Over coming weeks, other buildings in Cardiff Bay, including Wales Millennium Centre, Butetown Hub, Nelson House, Tresillian House, Ty Hywel and the Senedd will also be connected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Although the initial heat source is Viridor&#8217;s Energy Recovery Facility, the network is designed to be &#8220;heat source neutral&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This means that, in future, it could potentially be connected to alternative or additional heat sources such as the groundwater or deep geothermal heat that exists beneath Cardiff&#8217;s streets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cardiff and Vale College recently became the first building to receive heat from the network. Over coming weeks,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-346443","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}