Feb. 10, 2014: Guelph Begins Building North America's First City-Wide District Energy Network
Downtown District Energy System First of Many in Municipal Energy Plan
GUELPH, Ontario — The new high-efficiency heating and cooling system in the Sleeman Centre in downtown Guelph, Ontario, Canada is the first step toward building North America’s first city-wide district energy network, announced the city.
While there are thousands of individual systems across the world today, Guelph said it is the first community in North America to establish and announce a plan for an interconnected thermal grid to serve industrial, commercial, and residential buildings across an entire city.