Confederation partners with Synergy North for on-campus energy project

Confederation College and Synergy North have partnered to construct a heat pump and thermal storage facility on the college’s Thunder Bay campus. Funded by $3.2M from the Independent Electricity System Operator’s Grid Innovation Fund, the facility will allow the college to store excess power and sell it back to the provincial grid. Confederation President Michelle Salo said that students will also be able to access the system to supplement their learning. “They can see our biomass boiler, they can see the all the energy coming in, whether it’s electricity, natural gas,” said Salo. The system is expected to be operational in two years.