The facilities featured here use biomass as a fuel to produce steam or hot water at a central plant. This steam or hot water is then pumped underground for space heating and to provide domestic hot water to a number of buildings in a local cluster.
Centre of Excellence for Clean Energy Technology, Northern Lights College
https://www.nlc.bc.ca/About-NLC/Centre-Clean-Energy-Technologies
Housed in the new Centre of Excellence for Clean Energy Technology the wood pellet boiler system will be used as a training facility for renewable energy technologists.
Nazko Valley Elementary School & Community Centre
https://www.viessmann.ca/en/references/nazco-valley-quesnel.html
A 60,000 square foot school and community centre, in a village 100 kilometres west of Quesnel, was converted from using propane to wood pellets as a fuel for heat in 2008.
Haidi Gwaii Energy
The village of Old Massett is employing a high tech wood biomass boiler by way of a centralized heating system for their main community buildings. These buildings are comprised of a community hall, the band office, a health center, the social development and child family services building and an elementary school.
Prince George District Energy System
https://www.princegeorge.ca/City%20Services/Pages/Utilities/DistrictEnergy.aspx
The biomass-based Prince George District Energy System (DES) provides heating for several landmark buildings in downtown Prince George while reducing 1,900 tonnes of greenhouse gases per year. The state-of-the-art district energy system takes what was previously considered waste heat from Lakeland sawmill and transfers it via insulated piping to heat the downtown core of the city, a move that makes sense financially, environmentally, and socially.
