ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The International District Energy Association (IDEA) is proud to announce that Enwave Energy Corporation has been awarded the Joseph M. Brillhart Innovation Award at IDEA2024, the International District Energy Association’s (IDEA) annual conference and trade show, which was held in Orlando, Florida in June.
IDEA selected Enwave and its partner, Continual Energy Inc., for its submission, Royal York Hotel District Decarbonization, highlighting its efforts to help decarbonize the Fairmont Royal York Hotel. This award represents the best in public and private collaboration, where members share emerging best practices, new technologies and techniques, and the tremendous value of collaboration within the industry.
The Fairmont Royal York Hotel is an iconic hotel located in downtown Toronto that first opened in 1929. In collaboration with Continual, Enwave’s remit was to reduce the hotel’s dependency on fossil fuels by 80%. To accomplish this feat, Enwave replaced the hotel’s existing chiller plant with a new plant that is connected to its Deep Lake Water Cooling (DLWC) system for its cooling needs, and for heating, used a modular heat pump system connected to the company’s district loop in Toronto.
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The innovative use of these two systems came through their integration – through the heat pumps, Enwave repurposes the recovered heat from cooling customers in the district that was previously lost to the atmosphere to deliver low carbon heating to the Royal York Hotel, in what is the next generation of district solutions....
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