Benefits of District Energy

District energy networks provide the following benefits:

• Help reduce greenhouse gas emissions

• Enable the efficient transportation and use of heat or chilled water to a network of users

• Are able to use waste heat from a diverse range of sources. These include:

• Combined heat and power (CHP) / cogeneration facilities

• Industrial processes

• Energy-from-waste facilities

• Biomass and biogas fuelled boilers

• Heat pumps

• Geothermal sources

• Electric boilers

• Solar thermal arrays

• Provide fuel flexibility

• Lower the cost of energy generation

• Dramatically increase fuel efficiency through use of combined heat and power

• Reduce labour and maintenance costs as compared to individual systems

• Support the operation of distributed absorption cooling plants to provide cooling

For more information, please email: DE@guelphhydro.com