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Dr. Jam's "Legendary" Visit to a Low Carbon University in Burnaby, Canada

How do you decarbonize a university? Dr. Jam visits the district heating network at Simon Fraser University (SFU) – fuelled by biomass from the Corix plant! A great example of rapid, affordable decarbonization. District heating networks are critical enabling infrastructure for decarbonizing the building sector via fuel switching to local, low cost biomass fuels. Fortunately, we already have almost 200 district heating networks in Canada! Most are at universities, colleges, and military bases and can be switched to biomass without any disruption to operations. Existing energy centres, typically running on fossil gas, can be retained for backup and peaking. This was the case for SFU. Most legacy Canadian district heating networks are steam or high temperature hot water, which means electrification (i.e., electric boilers) is not a great option. Fortunately, everywhere there is a heat network there is also biomass! As the SFU example shows, universities can decarbonize their campus without any capital cost or change to operations by using a heat supply agreement with a biomass plant investor/owner/operator like Corix. Switching to biomass is the proven approach. If universities have made climate commitments, there really is no reason not to fuel switch. It isn't that difficult!