The Lonsdale Energy Corporation or LEC is a wholly owned city of North Vancouver corporation working in partnership with Terasen Utility Services to deliver energy services to the Lower Lonsdale area of North Vancouver.
The district energy system produces hot water at a series of mini-plants within Lower Lonsdale and then distributes the hot water energy through underground pipes to buildings connected to the system. Once used in the connected buildings, the water is returned to a mini-plant, reheated and circulated back to the connected buildings.
This system is cost effective, flexible, convenient, and self sustaining and award winning. In addition, nitrous oxide emissions are reduced by 64% and carbon dioxide emissions by 21%. The LEC and a similar project in Revelstoke represent a greener way to improve community liveability. And in Langford, the Westhills Langford Lake, a 6,000 unit development, is moving forward with a conceptual plan for a central district energy system that will provide geoexchange heating for all residential and commercial space.
Wouldn't it be nice to do some thing similar here with the Wharton Street project? And how about incorporating a geoexchange or geothermal heat pump system into the new RCMP building?
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