Bioenergy Research and Demonstration Project
UBC Bioenergy Demonstration and Research Project - Building Rendering
(BRDP)
The $27-million UBC Bioenergy Research and Demonstration Project (BRDP) is a partnership with Vancouver-based Nexterra Systems Corp. and General Electric Co. (GE). When it opens in 2012, it will be the first biomass-fueled, heat-and-power generation system of its kind in the world.
The project will eliminate up to 4,500 tonnes of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions per year from UBC’s Vancouver campus – the equivalent of taking 1,100 cars off the road – and is part of UBC’s bold plan to reduce institutional GHG emissions from 2007 levels by 33 per cent by 2015, 67 per cent by 2020 and total GHG emissions by 2050.
News
- Pioneering UBC clean energy project gets $11.2 million in new government support
- Clean Energy for UBC: New bioenergy project to fuel campus, research and learning
- UBC project to generate clean energy and new knowledge
Photos
- Groundbreaking event photos by Martin Dee, Public Affairs, UBC
The new federal and provincial funding was announced at a groundbreaking event for UBC’s pioneering Bioenergy Research and Demonstration Project.
