Providing community energy for the London 2012 Olympic Park

The UK Olympic Delivery Authority is responsible for providing infrastructure to serve the biggest sporting event in the world and support the long-term regeneration of east London. The scale of development for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games presented an opportunity to implement a sustainable, ‘low carbon’ development, central to which are two large energy centres and an extensive district heating and cooling network. This paper describes the challenges to implementing the community energy network and how these have been overcome to deliver utilities i#nfrastructure to a tight programme and with significant private sector investment.