Gel Energy wins national award

Wednesday 27th August, 2025

Congratulations to Geothermal Engineering Limited (GEL), which won the honour for Best Project at the 2025 British Renewable Energy Awards.

It’s the latest milestone in an exciting year for GEL, which included moving its offices to St Piran’s House, Heron Way, Newham, in March, in anticipation of its 14-strong team doubling in size over the following 18 months.

The company’s United Downs Geothermal Project aims will soon be producing the first geothermal electricity in the UK. It’s the culmination of a journey which has spanned site exploration and evaluation, fundraising, the drilling and testing of the UK’s deepest and hottest geothermal well, and the design and construction of the UK’s first geothermal power plant.

GEL’s power plants will have an operational lifetime of around 50 years, with each site expected to generate nearly 1.7 million MWh of ultra-low carbon electricity.

GEL staff attended a gala dinner in the ballroom at the Sheraton Grand in London’s Park Lane, which included a keynote address by Michael Shanks MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Energy.

“We are proud to be recognised for our dedication to geothermal energy and our efforts to create a greener and cleaner future for generations to come,” said GEL’s chief operating officer Tony Wilson.

“We’re very excited to be working on such a prestigious project. Our geothermal plant is now complete, and we will soon be producing the UK’s first electricity from geothermal heat. We have big aspirations for geothermal power, heat and lithium.”