Editing River Clyde (section)

== Heat pumps ==
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The River Clyde, or more accurately the Clyde Estuary, has significant potential as a heat source. The flow rate downstream alone is around 50 m<sup>3</sup>/s.<ref>{{cite web |title=NRFA Station Mean Flow Data for 84013 - Clyde at Daldowie |url=https://nrfa.ceh.ac.uk/data/station/meanflow/84013}}</ref> Reducing this temperature by 3&nbsp;°C would enable river heat pumps to extract 188.1 MW of heat. Since river heat pumps typically have an efficiency of 3.0, the heat deliverable is 1.5 times the river component. As a result, the estuary could deliver 282 MW of heat. The temperature of industrial heat pump delivery is typically 80&nbsp;°C. {{Citation needed|reason= Above citation makes no mention of river temperature|date=March 2023}}

In 2020, West Dunbartonshire Council deployed a [[heat pump#Water-source heat pump|river source heat pump]] scheme in the area called Queens Quay. It is the first large heat pump scheme in Britain to deliver at 80&nbsp;°C. The heat pumps were supplied by Star Refrigeration Ltd, who manufactured them in their Glasgow factory. The project was delivered by Vital Energi.