Company Profile
Creative Energy
Company Overview
Recognized as a leader in innovative energy solutions, Creative Energy designs, builds, owns and operates sustainable district energy systems across Canada.
Creative Energy’s team has a client-focused, community-vested approach to projects that deliver outstanding quality and service while providing tangible value for continued growth.
In addition to owning and operating one of Canada’s largest thermal networks in downtown Vancouver, we provide value to developers, landowners, end-users and the broader community through flexible thermal and electrical neighbourhood energy systems. Our projects focus on innovation, resiliency, and sustainability, and span across a broad spectrum of technologies including geo-exchange, ocean-exchange, cogeneration, microgrids, solar PVs, biomass and sewer heat recovery.
Serving Canadian’s for over 50 years with an energy reliability rate of 99.99%, our recent expansion into Toronto creates an exciting opportunity to develop the new Mirvish Village district energy system and microgrid, while helping to establish Creative Energy’s carbon-free platform in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA).
Company History
Vancouver faced huge problems from the pollution and inefficiencies involved in heating buildings using fuel oil and coal. Their solution was Central Heat Distribution, BC’s first district energy company.
Central Heat used highly efficient gas boilers to produce steam that was distributed to individual buildings through a network of underground pipes, converting the Vancouver Press building to a centralized natural gas steam boiler plant.
Significantly improving local air quality through the removal of 600 individual boiler stacks, Central Heat established itself as an integral part of the community.
By 2014, Central Heat’s 14 km network of pipes was serving over 210 buildings in Vancouver’s downtown core (45 million sq. Ft.), providing the lowest-cost source of energy in the city
Central Heat was rebranded to Creative Energy in 2014 and embraced a new focus to develop low-carbon district energy systems across North America
Notable Accomplishments / Recognition
Creative Energy owns and operates one of the largest district energy systems in North America. Since 1968, we’ve been delivering outstanding customer service with a 99.99% reliability record; today, our original plant in downtown Vancouver now serves over 215 customers across more than 45 million square feet of connected real estate.
Aiming to bring low-carbon district energy to cities across North America, Creative Energy is currently developing 12 new district energy projects with a range of innovative technologies including ocean-exchange, geo-exchange, biomass, cogeneration/CHP, solar PV, and microgrids.