ReNew Canada
Summary
Long before Justin Trudeau committed Canada to achieving net-zero by 2050, cities across the country were already hard at work devising community energy plans to reduce emissions generated by urban development. Many of the boldest plans centred on creating or expanding district energy (DE) projects—thermal grids of underground piping, in most cases connected to a central plant, that distributes hot water for heating or chilled water for cooling.
Nowhere are plans for expanding the role of district energy to achieve climate goals more ambitious than in Markham, Ont., which boasts two separate DE systems operated by Markham District Energy Inc. (MDE). The largest of MDE’s two DE systems—the fast-growing Markham Centre—got its start 25 years ago when IBM Canada decided to locate its major data centre there. Markham Centre today serves nearly 250 buildings, totalling 14.3-million square feet of development, with the potential to grow to 40-million square feet of industrial, commercial, residential and institutional space.
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