Every time someone takes a shower, washes the dishes, runs the laundry or flushes the toilet in Vancouver’s Olympic Village, the heat from the raw sewage is captured and put back into homes. The False Creek Neighborhood Energy Utility was turned on two days before the 2010 Winter Olympics began. Now in its 14th year of operation, it has expanded to the Mount Pleasant neighborhood and False Creek Flats, a tech and medical hub. The unique district energy system uses raw sewage to produce heat for its residents, and can use waste heat generated by non-residential buildings, too. “I think a big success of the [utility] is enabling other systems to go on and make their own confident investments in low-carbon energy,” says Derek Pope, associate director of neighborhood energy at the City of Vancouver

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