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A Creative Energy district energy system being built at Thompson Rivers University’s Kamloops campus will nearly eliminate the university’s greenhouse gas emissions, and potentially allow its neighbours to benefit as well.
But the process of planning, approving and finalizing such a system did not come without hard questions over feasibility, cost and legal issues.
Debt financing is rarely granted for B.C. public universities, for example, and the university had to navigate complex laws to build the subsurface infrastructure.
“There’s a roadblock every turn of the way, but when you have two committed parties that have common purpose, we can navigate them,” Diego Mandelbaum, senior vice-president of development at Vancouver-headquartered Creative Energy, told Sustainable Biz Canada in an interview.
For Thompson Rivers University (TRU), which committed to being a fossil fuel-free institution by 2030, the obstacles had to be overcome to meet its “societal obligation,” Matt Milovick, the university’s vice-president of administration and finance, told Sustainable Biz Canada.
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