The Energy Services Acquisition Program project, ESAP for short, is Public-Private Partner (P3) project aimed at overhauling and modernizing Ottawa’s district energy system in its city, providing heating and cooling to more than 60 buildings in Ottawa and Gatineau.
The Government of Canada has invested $1.5 billion for the first phase of this project, to be completed by 2026. Bender is proud to be selected for the supply of its equipment within the ESAP project.
The first building for this project is an existing plant that has been operating since 1959, named Confederation Height Plant. Bender’s involvement in this building is the supply of new neutral grounding resistors and ground fault monitoring equipment inside the switchgears and switchboards.
The challenge for commissioning the large amount of equipment has been to ensure that the different components (ground fault monitors, current transformers, communication gateways, etc.) are wired correctly between switchgears and switchboards. Thankfully with these brand-new enclosures, it was easy to address some initial wiring errors and ensure that all Bender equipment communicated with each other.