Creative Energy is a private

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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.

Facilities

Beatty Street, Vancouver

A Creative Energy owned a operated district energy facility at 720 Beatty Street in

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provides heat to the

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including the

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Central Branch,

BC Place BC Place is a multi-purpose stadium in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Located at the north side of False Creek, it is owned and operated by the BC Pavilion Corporation (PavCo), a Crown corporation of the province. The venue is currently ...

Rogers Arena Rogers Arena, (formerly General Motors Place), is a multi-purpose list of indoor arenas, arena at 800 Griffiths Way in the Downtown Vancouver, downtown area of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Opened in 1995, the arena was known as General ...

Queen Elizabeth Theatre The Queen Elizabeth Theatre is a performing arts venue in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Along with the Orpheum, Vancouver Playhouse, and thAnnex it is one of four facilities operated by the Vancouver Civic Theatres on behalf ...

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and most major hotel/office/condo towers such as Shaw Tower via a 10.5 km network of high-pressure pipes between five centimetres and 50 centimetres in diameter running anywhere from one to five metres below street surfaces. The original world-famous

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was once a notable addition to the more than 180 buildings that are served by the

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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

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and

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newspapers. 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.

Oakridge, Vancouver

As part of the Oakridge Centre redevelopment in Vancouver, Creative Energy is building a district energy facility for the Oakridge neighbourhood that will be integrated into Westbank's buildings. The facility, estimated for completion in 2027, will use a mix of gas and electric boilers connected to a

geothermal heat pump A ground source heat pump (also geothermal heat pump) is a heating/cooling system for buildings that use a type of heat pump to transfer heat to or from the ground, taking advantage of the relative constancy of temperatures of the earth through ...

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.

TRU, Kamloops

Creative Energy is working with

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to introduce three mini-district energy facility powered by electric boilers across its campus by 2024.

Horseshoe Bay

As part of a luxury waterfront development in the Horseshoe Bay neighbourhood of

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, Creative Energy installed a geothermal system that extracts heat from the ocean.

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

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References

External links

CHDL profile on ProfileCanada

Guestlife Vancouver article on CHDL

Google Maps satellite view showing the CHDL facility

{{Vancouver landmarks Companies based in Vancouver Energy companies of Canada