Large-scale heat pumps at first presented a huge logistical challenge. “Everything that could go wrong did go wrong … but we solved those problems.”
From the outside, the French Quarter condos look like Hausmanian buildings from Paris that have been teleported from the 19th century onto Richmond Street East.
Hoisted by crane to replace a natural-gas-fired boiler in December, the Italian-built equipment now provides air conditioning and heat to 160 units, powered entirely byThis project wasn’t headed by the government, or a large corporation intent on disrupting the HVAC market. It was the product of hundreds of hours of work by volunteer condo board members, who were simply “desperate to decarbonize.”
While much of the existing government focus has been on encouraging people in single-family houses to, big cities such as Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver will have to contend with electrifying heat in tens of thousands of multi-residential buildings. “Usually on a board, you tend to do the cheapest, like-for-like replacement. But here, we spent more because we wanted to make the case that it will decrease costs over the long run and will be better for the planet,” she said.
The first problem they encountered was the price. They got a quote that was well beyond what they were willing to pay. So they turned to Mitsubishi — a manufacturer known for producing some of the most advanced heat pumps that operate at the coldest temperatures — and negotiated a price they could live with.
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