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Responsible for the majority of Western University’s greenhouse gas emissions, Western’s 102-year-old power plant is the focus of a $16-million upgrade that is expected to reduce the London, Ont. university’s overall emissions by up to 30 per cent.
This significant equipment installation is at the heart of Western’s near-term sustainability goal of 45 per cent carbon reduction by 2030, and long-term ambition to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.
“This project is going to replace one of our oldest boilers with an electric boiler… which will really get us to our 2030 goal,” says Heather Hyde, Western’s sustainability director. “Our steam system… accounts for about 75 per cent of our overall emissions, so a significant portion. And that’s why we’ve prioritized this project, because it has a very significant impact.”
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