District Energy Space

District Energy Space is a publication that showcases the district energy industry's growth by featuring those buildings that have committed or recommitted to district energy service with an IDEA member system during the previous calendar year.

Start planning now to submit your entries for calendar year 2007. The deadline for submittal is Monday, March 31, 2008.

Please use IDEA’s special spreadsheet, available here, to submit your entries. Please carefully enter all data in the Excel spreadsheet (be sure to provide all requested information) and re-name and re-save the file with your system’s name.

If you're sending photos, please be sure the filenames reflect the building names. This greatly facilitates preparation of the final document. The Excel file and photos should be emailed to mlw@westerlund.com.

District Energy Space 2006 is available here as a pdf document. See below to download individual building categories and past issues.

IDEA congratulated the following IDEA member systems on their marketing success in the year 2006 at IDEA's 2007 Annual Conference in Scottsdale: 

North America - Total Square Footage Committed or Recommitted in 2006

• Gold: Akron Thermal - 9,394,412 sq ft
• Silver: Enwave Energy Corporation - 7, 596,357 sq ft
• Bronze: Austin Energy - 6,430,630 sq ft

North America - Total Buildings Committed or Recommitted in 2006

• Gold: Austin Energy - 33 buildings
• Silver: Enwave Energy Corporation - 20 buildings
• Bronze: Seattle Steam Company - 17 buildings

Beyond North America - Total Square Footage Committed or Recommitted in 2006

• Gold: National Central Cooling Comany (Tabreed) - 149,959,858 sq ft.
• Silver: Emirates Central Cooling Systems Corp. (Empower) - 44,155,449 sq ft.
• Bronze: Emicool - 8,988,376 sq. ft.

Beyond North America - Total Buildings Committed or Recommitted in 2006

• Gold: National Central Cooling Comany (Tabreed)  - 473 Buildings
• Silver: Emirates Central Cooling Systems Corp. (Empower)  - 71
• Bronze: Emicool - 1

Entries by Building Category and Year
(click on each to download that year only)

• Commercial-Office
  2006  2005  2004  2003  2002  2001
  
  
• Commercial-Retail/Manufacturing
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• Commercial-Other
  2006  2005  2004  2003
  
  
• Entertainment, Cultural or Sporting Center
  2006  2005  2004  2003  2002  2001
  
  
• Government
  2006  2005  2004  2003  2002  2001
  
  
• Hotel
  2006  2005  2004  2003  2002  2001
  
  
• Other
  2006  2005  2004  2003  2002  2001
  
  
• Residential
  2006  2005  2004  2003  2002  2001
  
  
• School, Hospital or Institution
  2006  2005  2004  2003  2002  2001
  

Comprehensive Editions of District Energy Space
2006 Hi-res  2005   2004  2003  2002  2001  2000
2006 Lo-res

During 2006 alone, District Energy Space reported customers in North America totaling more than 40.5 million sq ft to district energy service. Since 1990, District Energy Space has reported 388,846,372 sq ft of buildings connected to North America district energy systems.  Systems from beyond North America reported more than 203 million sq ft for 2006.

All systems submitting 2007 entries will receive a certificate of appreciation. During the 2008 annual conference in Orlando, Florida, will congratulate and present awards to those systems with the greatest amount of total square footage and the greatest number of buildings committed or recommitted to service in 2007.

Click here to see some landmark buildings served by district energy systems that are past IDEA system of the year award winners.