Setting your project apart
In today's competitive market, you want your project to stand out and installing a geoexchange system is one powerful way you can achieve this. The benefits of geoexchange for developers and end users can include indoor comfort, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and achieving a degree of insulation from energy price volatility. You will enjoy even more benefits when FortisBC owns and operates your geoexchange system.
Watch the story of a Victoria developer seeking to make the right energy investment:
Developer benefits
- Enhances the profile of your project by offering an environmentally friendly energy system to address purchasers' concerns about the impact on the environment
- Avoids the large capital investment typically required since FortisBC finances the upfront capital costs
- Reduces your risk and ensures end user satisfaction because FortisBC operates and maintains the system to utility standards
End user benefits
- Geoexchange systems can be highly reliable and operate according to stringent safety standards
- Long-term contracts offered by FortisBC ensure user costs remain competitive with conventional energy systems
- FortisBC's ownership and operation means utility level service and 24x7x365 customer care
- A smaller environmental footprint is created by end user
Environmental benefits
- Extracting energy from the earth creates a renewable source of heating and cooling
- Highly efficient systems require substantially less energy than conventional systems
- Lower energy requirements mean reduced CO2 and other greenhouse gases emissions