Success Stories

Lonsdale Energy district energy system delivers high-efficiency, cost-effective sustainable energy to North Vancouver customers, while reducing community-wide GHG emissions.

The Dawson Creek community energy plan examines current and future energy consumption patterns and shows the links between energy savings and cost savings.

Introducing public transit on Salt Spring Island has been a great success, with ridership and revenue higher than anticipated. 

The first municipality in BC to introduce universal residential curbside pick-up of organic waste, Ladysmith is dramatically reducing the amount of waste going into landfill.

A public-private partnership between the CRD and Maxim Power Corp has succeeded in harnessing methane produced at the Hartland Landfill and transporting it to a generation facility to produce enough power for 1600 homes.

The District of Elkford installed solar powered circulators in one of its sewage lagoons to eliminate the need for hydro power and added chemicals.

The Town of Comox Council passed a Zoning bylaw that will limit pollution from cars idling in drive-throughs.

The City of Grand Forks recently created a Sustainable Community Plan and it taking steps to promote non-motorized transportation in the community.

The T’Sou-ke First Nation community have become the largest solar powered community energy project in BC with Hydro meters run Backwards

Peachland is taking action to meet their carbon neutral commitments and discovering they would be getting much more in the process. Once the District embarked on a comprehensive energy assessment to determine their baseline GHG outputs they saw many opportunities to reduce energy costs.

After peaking in 2000, Vancouver’s community GHG emissions have been reduced to 1990 levels. They are on track to reach target of a further 6 per cent reduction by 2012 or sooner. Vancouver has the lowest per capita GHG emissions of any major city in North America. This has been achieved at the same time that Vancouver has undergone significant growth: 27 per cent increase in population and 18 per cent increase in jobs.

The Southeast False Creek Neighbourhood Energy Utility (NEU) is an environmentally-friendly community energy system that provides space heating and domestic hot water to all new buildings in Southeast False Creek (SEFC), including but not limited to the Olympic Village.

Revelstoke's Community Energy System provides the community with increased job security, improved air quality, reduced greenhouse gas emissions, and lower energy costs for customers.

The Capital Regional District (CRD) successfully completed a youth cycling education program for Grade 7 students, instilling confidence and knowledge in the next generation of cyclists.