Creative Energy
Formerly | Central Heat Distribution Ltd. |
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Company type | Private |
Headquarters | Vancouver, British Columbia |
Services | Construction and operations of district heating systems |
Website | creative |
Creative Energy is a private district heating company. The company was founded on November 1, 1968, by group of engineers with a desire to lower heating bills for buildings (no boilers to buy and maintain) and reduce the amount of pollution being created to provide heat downtown. In 2014, Central Heat Distribution was rebranded as Creative Energy and began taking on additional district heating projects in Vancouver and Toronto. [1]
Facilities
Beatty Street, Vancouver
A Creative Energy owned a operated district energy facility at 720 Beatty Street in
The original world-famous steam clock in Gastown was once a notable addition to the more than 180 buildings that are served by the natural gas powered boiler located in the Stadium/Entertainment district of downtown. The current clock is electrically powered.
The massive building that occupies the west end of the Georgia Viaduct was once home to the printing plant for Pacific Press the publishers of
In 2020, a plan was approved to replace the building with an office and entertainment complex that will have an expanded electric steam plant in the basement.[4]
Oakridge, Vancouver
As part of the
Main Alley, Vancouver
Main Alley is a proposed district cooling project for office buildings on Main Street in Vancouver that would be an extension of a current facility on East Fifth Avenue.[7]
TRU, Kamloops
Creative Energy is working with Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops to introduce three mini-district energy facility powered by electric boilers across its campus by 2024.[8]
Horseshoe Bay
As part of a luxury waterfront development in the Horseshoe Bay neighbourhood of West Vancouver, Creative Energy installed a geothermal system that extracts heat from the ocean.[9]
Mirvish Village, Toronto
A mixed energy source district heating project is currently underway, as of May 2021, as part of the Mirvish Village redevelopment in Toronto.[10]
References
- ^ "Creative Energy". creative.energy. Retrieved January 5, 2022.
- ^ "Greater Vancouver Underground". Archived from the original on May 19, 2009. Retrieved May 12, 2009.
- ^ The History of Metropolitan Vancouver
- ^ Chan, Kenneth (October 14, 2020). "New BC Place office tower with entertainment pavilion approved by City Council". Daily Hive. Retrieved October 21, 2020.
- ^ Immen, Wallace (December 2, 2019). "Vancouver's Oakridge Centre converts a 1950s mall to a modern-day hub". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved May 3, 2021.
- ^ "Oakridge — Projects". Creative Energy. Archived from the original on 2020-05-07. Retrieved May 3, 2021.
- ^ "Main Alley — Projects". Creative Energy. Archived from the original on 2020-05-07. Retrieved May 3, 2021.
- ^ Kneeshaw, Dylana (September 28, 2020). TRU earns international recognition for sustainability initiatives (Newscast). CFJC-TV.
- ^ Chan, Kenneth (June 7, 2019). "Transformative development in Horseshoe Bay well underway (RENDERINGS)". Daily Hive. Retrieved May 5, 2021.
- ^ Lee-Shanok, Philip (November 24, 2018). "How a century-old idea is heating and cooling new communities in Toronto". CBC News. Retrieved May 5, 2021.