What is the CCDEU?
The City Centre District Energy Utility (CCDEU) is a low-carbon energy system being developed to serve Richmond’s growing City Centre area.
Lulu Island Energy Company (LIEC) is currently developing the CCDEU through a phased strategy that includes both offsite and onsite infrastructure. Offsite infrastructure includes distribution piping, as well as interim and permanent energy centres. Onsite infrastructure consists of low-carbon energy plants that use high-efficiency air source heat pumps. These systems are all designed to interconnect with the future district-wide network, enhancing overall system efficiency.
LIEC is also working closely with developers to ensure new buildings in this area are “District Energy Ready”. These buildings are designed with systems that can easily connect to the CCDEU once it is fully operational.
The first four developments—The Paramount, Fiorella, One Park, and Richmond Centre Phase 1B—are now operational, serving 1,500 residential units and 1.7 million square feet of space with low-carbon energy.
The CCDEU supports Richmond’s climate goals by prioritizing low-carbon energy sources, including a future focus on sewer heat reclamation. At full buildout, the CCDEU will provide efficient, sustainable heating and cooling to over 170 development sites and nearly 50 million square feet of floor space.
Service Area
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phases
Developments built in the CCDEU area were required to be “District Energy Ready”, meaning that they could easily be connected to the future CCDEU. These developments are not currently serviced by LIEC.
New developments in the CCDEU service area receive space heating, cooling, and domestic hot water heating from an onsite low-carbon energy plant that LIEC owns and operates.
The first four developments—The Paramount, Fiorella, One Park, and Richmond Centre Phase 1B—are operational.
The plan for the future CCDEU is to serve all new developments within the entire red area on the map. At full build out, the CCDEU could potentially become the largest North American district energy system, servicing approximately 50 million square feet of floor space.
rates
LIEC rates include all commodity costs, day-to-day maintenance and operating costs, and all DEU equipment replacement costs: you won’t need to ever worry about any on-going maintenance or end-of-life replacement costs for in-building energy generation equipment, such as boilers, chillers and cooling towers.
Other Service Areas
