Community Energy

Completed and connected community. About 2500 residents are within a 5 minute walk of shops, services and offices in two neighbouhood centres.

Building retrofit - see detailed installations in the house/apartment modules.

Efficient housing type. Households in duplex, townhouse, and apartment dwellings located near services can reduce household energy costs by about 60% compared to suburb households.

Tree shading. Trees on the east and west side provide cooling effects with summer shade - saving energy for air conditioning; pruning lower branches of deciduous trees to the south will allow the lower winter sun to strike the walls - saving energ for heating.

Pumps and geo-exchange. Heat pumps can take heat from the air or ground and use it to provide space hear or hot water.

Solar energy/ solar water hot system.
Rooftop solar - uses photovoltaic cells to harvest the sun energy and convert that into electricity.
Solar hot water system - solar thermal collectors circulate a fluid which is heated by the sun's radiant energy.

District energy system. Networks of hot and cold water pipes, typically burried underground, that are used to efficiently heat and cool buildings using less energy than if the individual buildings were to each have their own boilers and chillers. See an example in downtown Vancouver here.