British Columbia Utilities Commission
Decision Information
Corix Multi-Utility Services Inc. (Corix) is the owner and operator of the UniverCity Neighbourhood Utility Service (NUS), providing thermal energy services to its UniverCity customers on Burnaby Mountain. Corix was granted Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity (CPCN) approvals by the British Columbia Utilities Commission (Commission) under Order C-7-11 dated May 6, 2011, with further approvals granted in Order G-48-16A dated April 11, 2016. The UniverCity NUS has been operating since its inception, serving the initial phases of the UniverCity developments by using temporary energy centres (TECs) reliant upon natural gas boilers designed to be replaced with a permanent low-carbon energy facility when there was sufficient demand to make such a facility economic.