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Summary
Thermal storage below the Pacific Centre Complex to share heat energy between multiple buildings
Part of a series on BC Hydro Clean Energy Champions: businesses, homes, and institutions – large and small – recognized for reducing their reliance on fossil fuels.
The network of pipes that carry steam from a district energy plant alongside BC Place Stadium to heat a variety of buildings across downtown Vancouver is a technological marvel launched way back in 1968. But while it solved the problem of individual buildings being heated by inefficient and polluting coal and fuel-oil, the steam plant's efficient boilers are still the product of burning natural gas.
Even though the source of that steam is going to change – Creative Energy will soon electrify steam production at the district energy plant – Cadillac Fairview wants to reduce its reliance on steam at the Pacific Centre Complex.
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