Work is powering ahead to build the new state-of-the-art Energy Centre on the Olympic Park.

The Energy Centre includes a range of sustainability features helping to reduce the carbon emissions of the Park.

The Centre will include biomass boilers that use woodchip as fuel to generate heat, and a natural gas-powered Combined Cooling, Heat and Power Plant (CCHP). During the Games the Centre will provide heating, cooling (for air conditioning) and power for the venues across the Park. After the Games it will contribute power to, and provide heating and cooling for, the local area.

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ODA Director of Infrastructure and Utilities Simon Wright said: "Sustainability is at the heart of the 2012 project and the Energy Centre will ensure a lasting legacy of green power in the Olympic Park for generations to come.

"The state-of-the-art Energy Centre will be one of the largest in the UK and the lean, mean and green sustainability features that underpin this project will set a model for future urban regeneration schemes."

(CD/BMcC)