ABSTRACT

Mapping in British Columbia .................................................................314 15.3 British Columbia Case Studies in Wind, Solar, Microhydro,

and Biomass ................................................................................................ 316 15.3.1 Regional Wind Energy Mapping for Northern British

Columbia ......................................................................................... 316 15.3.2 Energy Potential Mapping in the North Shore Region

of Metro Vancouver, British Columbia ....................................... 317 15.3.2.1 Microhydro at the North Shore ..................................... 318 15.3.2.2 Biomass at the North Shore ........................................... 320 15.3.2.3 Biomass Assessment Methods ...................................... 320 15.3.2.4 Biomass Energy Generation Results ............................ 321

15.3.3 Solar Energy for the City of Prince George and the District of North Vancouver ....................................................................... 322 15.3.3.1 Municipal Solar Thermal Potentials in Prince George ....323 15.3.3.2 Mapping Solar Energy Potentials from LiDAR

for North Vancouver ....................................................... 326 15.4 Discussion ................................................................................................... 328 15.5 Conclusion .................................................................................................. 331 Acknowledgments .............................................................................................. 331 References ............................................................................................................. 331

Community energy planning is de‚ned here as comprehensive and integrated energy planning at the community scale, taking supply, transmission/ distribution, and demand into account. A community vision can be used to de‚ne a desired system that includes both sustainability and community perspectives and also makes the most ef‚cient use of energy by matching energy supplies to energy services (Church and Ellis 2007; Salter 2008; Stremke et al. 2011). However, community energy planning in Canada has conventionally focused predominantly or wholly on demand management, with renewable energy less well integrated (St. Denis and Parker 2009). The work presented here focuses on the supply side in order to address this gap.