Ms Margie McCarthy:

The study looked at heat densities, so it was more about the demand to begin with. We are now looking more at where are the potential heat sources because it will be seen from that heat study that a lot of the heat within district heating came from the likes of heat pumps and biomass as well as industrial waste heat. As referenced earlier, geothermal energy played a smaller part but data centres certainly were not a key feature or focus of meeting the demand. That is quite a local area. Now that we have identified about 80 candidate areas to meet the target of 2.7 TWh per year, it is about looking at those candidate areas, where are the anchor tenants and where are the base best heat sources.