OVERVIEW
UBC’s award-winning Bioenergy Research and Demonstration Facility is a pioneering Campus as a Living Lab project which began operation in 2012. Our facility generates renewable thermal energy from wood waste biomass (wood chips), and electricity from renewable natural gas, significantly reducing fossil fuel use on campus.
Located at our Vancouver campus, the Bioenergy Research and Demonstration Facility processes renewable biomass sourced from urban wood waste and transforms it into synthesis gas (syngas) to generate thermal energy for heating campus buildings.
30%
of our energy needs are provided by the Bioenergy Research and Demonstration Facility.
Find out more about UBC’s Energy and Water Services management of the Bioenergy Research and Demonstration Facility.