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A new report from RBC’s Climate Action Institute, titled Climate Briefing: A Smart Heating Solution For Canada’s Fiscally-Strained Municipalities, focuses on the significant impact that general and low- to zero-carbon district heating systems can have in municipalities’ struggles against growth, fiscal and climate demands.
In meeting sustainability and emission reduction demands, the report states that scaling district heating systems could lower the building sector’s emissions across Canada’s largest cities by 36 per cent, based on research from RWDI, the Climate Smart Building Alliance and the Climate Action Institute.
For fiscal challenges, the report cites district thermal systems, a subset of district energy systems, as an enticing solution. District thermal systems pose a number of benefits, including the facilitation of low to zero-carbon thermal grids, increasing the pace of building decarbonization and a lack of burden on municipal finances.
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