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Innovative idea to use Loch Leven to heat Kinross-shire homes

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A radical idea has been unveiled to use Loch Leven as an energy source to fuel a district heating system. Water would be extracted from the picturesque loch and potentially used to heat homes and public buildings in Kinross and Milnathort.

The proposal was presented to members of the Kinross-shire Local Committee on Thursday, November 24. The committee's convener Willie Robertson said he had been approached by David Cairns about the idea.

The Liberal Democrat Kinross-shire councillor told the committee: "I thought it was extremely exciting." A district heating system distributes heat to a network of properties from a central location.

Mr Cairns has been working with a small group called CATCH (Climate Action Through Community Heating) to explore whether it would offer a "plausible route to affordable heating for the residents of Kinross and Milnathort while reducing carbon emissions".

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