Bioenergy Research and Partnership Project
The official groundbreaking ceremony included (from left) Pierre Ouillet, UBC Vice President Finance, Resources and Operations; Honourable Lynne Yelich, Minister of State for Western Economic Diversification; UBC President Stephen Toope; Honourable John Yap, Minister of State for Climate Action; and Professor David Wilkinson, Clean Energy Research Centre Director. Photo credit: Martin Dee
A first-of-its-kind clean energy project that will generate enough clean electricity to power 1,500 homes and reduce the University of British Columbia’s natural gas consumption by up to 12 per cent, received $11.2 million in new federal and provincial government funding at an official groundbreaking ceremony today.
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