Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what funding his Department is providing for systems drawing heat from deep underground.

Support for heat networks which use geothermal heat is available from the £288m Green Heat Network Fund. This three-year fund opened in March 2022 and offers capital grants to support the commercialisation and construction of new low and zero carbon heat networks. Development funding is also available from the Department’s Heat Networks Delivery Unit to help heat network developers explore opportunities for technologies such as deep geothermal.