Drake Landing Solar Community Tour
Drake Landing Solar Community
5 Drake Landing Common, Okotoks, AB T1S 2M7, Canada
Alberta
50.7267066
-113.94963089999999
Description
The Drake Landing Solar Community (DLSC) is an award winning solar
district energy system located in Okotoks, Alberta, 15 minutes south of
Calgary. The unique feature of DLSC is that 90-95% percent of space
heating needs for the community’s 52 single-detached homes are met by
solar thermal energy, a feat unprecedented anywhere else in the world.
The DLSC is also the first major implementation in North America of
seasonal solar thermal energy storage technology. Solar thermal energy
is collected in the summer, stored underground, and then returned to the
homes as heat during the winter. There are five main components of the
DLSC project: the solar collection, the Energy Centre with short-term
energy storage, the seasonal Borehole Thermal Energy Storage (BTES)
system, the district heating system, and the energy efficient homes
certified to the R-2000 Standard.
The DLSC was a project conceived by Natural Resources Canada (NRCan),
a federal department of the Government of Canada. To see the DLSC
through to fruition, NRCan established partnerships with innovative,
environmentally conscious companies that had longstanding, credible
reputations within their industries. Ground was broken at the DLSC in
the spring of 2005 with a completion date of fall 2005. The DLSC system
has been fully charged and operating at optimal capacity since 2010.
Location:
Drake Landing Solar Community Energy Centre
5 Drake Landing Common, Okotoks, T1S 0C3
Note: For safety reasons, please consider that you have to be 18 years old to attend this event. Thanks !
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Start:
2016-09-09T10:00:00-06:00
End:
2016-09-09T12:00:00-06:00
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Drake Landing Solar Community
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