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Current LEC Projects
There are presently more than 1,500 LEC customers. By the end of 2010, LEC anticipates serving more than 20 buildings, totalling two million square feet of building area. The long-term goal is to produce green energy for several areas in the City of North Vancouver.
Older buildings can also enjoy the green benefits of locally-produced district energy. With LEC service, older buildings become more sustainable; extending their lifespan while avoiding the costs associated with replacing stand-alone boilers or antiquated heating systems.
Lower Lonsdale Customers
- Time - 155 & 175 West 1st Street
- IGA Marketplace and Shoppers Drug Mart - 130 & 150 West Esplanade
- One Park Lane - Chesterfield & West 1st Street
- Sky - 151 West 2nd Street
- John Braithwaite Community Centre - 145 West 1st Street
- Aberdeen - 88 Lonsdale Avenue
- The Envy - 170 West 3rd Street
- Ventana - 175 West 2nd Street
- Grant McNeil Place* - 203 West 2nd Street
- The Landing - 100 East Esplanade
- The Premiere - 138 East Esplanade
- Esplanade West - 168 East Esplanade
- The Esplanade - 188 East Esplanade
- Commercial Building - 180 West Esplanade
- The Pinnacle Hotel at the Pier - 111 East Esplanade
- Residential Towers - 177 & 187 East Esplanade
- Presentation House* - 333 Chesterfield Avenue
Central Lonsdale Customers
- The new City Library - 120 West 14th Street
- City Hall - 141 West 14th Street
- Vista Place - 158 West 13th Street and 1320 Chesterfield Avenue
- The Mowafaghian Foundation Building - 1133 Lonsdale Avenue
- Chesterfield House* - 1415 Chesterfield Avenue
- North Vancouver City Fire Hall* - 165 East 13th Street
* Older properties now enjoying LEC service
Solar Energy
Solar energy is free and with highly efficient collectors, solar radiation can be harvested easily and used effectively. In summer months, a high performance solar capture system could provide nearly all the energy required by domestic hot water use.
In 2007, the City was awarded $204,000 from the Canada-BC Municipal Rural Infrastructure Fund to build 120 solar hot water panels atop what is now the North Vancouver City Library. The funding helped LEC to expand service into Central Lonsdale.
Geothermal Energy
LEC has conducted investigative drilling at two Upper Lonsdale sites to determine the economic feasibility of a geo-exchange heating system near Harry Jerome Recreation Complex and Lonsdale School. The drilling aimed to establish if this green energy is available to be incorporated into the LEC community energy grid.
Geo-exchange systems use geothermal energy, which is naturally stored as heat in the earth's surface, in oceans and large bodies of water. In many parts of the world, the earth's surface under the frost line maintains a nearly constant temperature between 10-degrees and 16-degrees Celsius, remaining warmer than the air above it in the winter and cooler in the summer. A geo-exchange or geothermal heat pump system takes advantage of this constant temperature through a heat-transfer process. Essentially, the ground acts as a heat source in winter and a heat sink in the summer. LEC will provide more information as results from the exploratory drilling becomes available.
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