@report{connelly2025mines,
title={Coal mines for heat decarbonisation: DEI policy brief},
author={Stephen Connelly},
url={https://gems.ac.uk/coal-mines-for-heat-decarbonisation/},
urldate={2025-11-07},
howpublished={\url{http://gems.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/simple-file-list/DEI_Policy_document.pdf}},
year={2025},
address={Department of Earth Sciences, Science Labs, Durham University, Lower Mountjoy, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE},
abstract={Beneath about a quarter of the cities and countryside across the UK sits the potentially huge energy resource of heat held in water which has filled the nation's disused coal mines: mine water geothermal heat (MWGH).},
annote={[**UF]  Quote: "... the building envelope retrofit interventions have a small reduction of 23\% to 21 \% when all interventions are included against the baseline value pre-retrofit stage. However, the change to a low- carbon heating system has the potential to reduce energy demand by >100\% without considering building envelope retrofits. Including building envelope retrofits, this can reduce further by between 111\% to 118\% depending on the heat pump used."  Quote: "This study highlights the importance of occupant comfort and well-being in building retrofitting, often overlooked in favour of solely focusing on energy efficiency."},
}