On Wednesday, March 7, Exhibition Place will unveil one of the largest trigeneration systems in Canada and the first system that is municipally-owned. The $4.4 million trigeneration system is supported by a Green Municipal Fund loan of $1,075,000, $1 million loan from the Toronto Atmospheric Fund and $2,325,000 from the City of Toronto’s Energy Retrofit Program. It is part of Exhibition Place’s plan to become energy self-sufficient by 2010.

Exhibition Place’s trigeneration system will become the sole source of power, heat and provide most of the cooling for the Direct Energy Centre at Exhibition Place. The system consists of one 1,600 kilowatt natural gas-fired generator with a heat-recovery package and a hot-water driven absorption chiller.

Date:                      Wednesday, March 7, 2007

Time:                         12:30 a.m., with special press viewing of the generator at 11:30

Location:                   West Section of Direct Energy Centre’s Hall of Names

Exhibition Place, Toronto

Speakers include:

Minister of Natural Resources, the Honourable Gary Lunn,

City of Toronto Mayor David Miller,

Councillor Pam McConnell, representing the Federation of Canadian Municipalities’ (FCM), and Deputy Mayor Joe Pantalone, Chair of the Board of Governors of Exhibition Place

Peter Love, Ontario’s Chief Energy Conservation Officer

Dianne Young, CEO and General Manager, Exhibition Place