Overcoming Barriers to the Implementation of District Energy Projects. The federal government is committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions to meet international commitments.
Cities reject very large volumes of potentially useable heat from industrial and other processes.
At the same time, they consume large amounts of fossil fuel for space heating. Harnessing the wasted energy for space heating would directly reduce emissions of GHG and other combustion pollutants. District energy systems are the only feasible way to collect and transport such reject heat. This is a companion study to CERI's report Modeling Air Emission Control Strategies in Alberta . The model was developed to replicate the energy system of the province from exploration and development through to the final end-user.