Ashlu Creek Green Power Project
The Ashlu Creek Project is a run-of-river, renewable energy project that uses the naturally flowing water in the creek to produce electricity.
The project does not involve a dam or a reservoir. Instead, it diverts a portion of the creek's water through an underground tunnel and through turbines before returning the water - clean and unchanged - back into the natural creek.
The energy that is produced is 230 gigawatt-hour (GWh), enough to serve 23,000 homes each year. The amount of greenhouse gas emissions that are not produced by this clean source of energy is equivalent to removing 21,000 cars from the road each year. The Ashlu Creek Green Power Project will displace 219,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) gas from an equivalent sized coal-fired power plant and 120,000 tonnes from Burrard Thermal's natural gas-fired plant.
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