unimaginative2
Senior Member
The Portlands energy building is at Leslie and Unwin and is going to generate electricity from gas for all of Toronto. The West Don Lands district energy centre is to provide hot water etc for the West Don Lands development at Cherry/King/Don River. They are doing quite different things and are quite far apart.
Ahh, this is for the West Don Lands. Somebody said port lands. Still, there's no reason why they couldn't pipe steam from the new power plant. There's no difference between an electricity generating plant and a district heating plant. They both generate steam, but one uses it to heat buildings and the other uses it to spin a turbine. It's much more efficient, however, to use the steam for heating after it has spun the turbine instead of generating new steam somewhere else.