History (1800s)
The name of the company that provided gas to residents in Toronto in the 1840s-1880s
Consumers' Gas Company
A coal famine
Name 1 of the buildings that is cooled by the Enwave Deep Lake Cooling System
Toronto City Hall, Toronto General Hospital or Scotiabank Arena
Name 1 of the cities where new data centres are being built
Toronto, Mississauga, Vaughn, Markham or Scarborough
Over half of Toronto's pollution comes from buildings. True or False?
True; it mostly comes from burning natural gas for heat
1879
Due to the coal famine, the electric companies switched to hydroelectric power drawn from Niagara Falls in 1910. True or False?
False; they switched from coal to hydroelectric power in 1906.
Toronto Hydro built a solar farm at Exhibition Place in 2003 due to greater environmental consciousness. True or False?
False; they built a wind turbine
Hyperscale AI data centres use large quantities of ___ for cooling
Water
By what year does the City of Toronto want to replace all gas pumps with electric heat pumps?
2040
The name of the man who first installed electric lighting in Toronto in 1881
John J. Wright
How much money did Toronto Hydro spend between 1964 to 1974 to bury overhead distribution wires and transformers?
$31 million
The number of residents Toronto Hydro currently serves
797,000 residents
True; these projects cost a combined $250 billion
The government of Ontario wants data centres to generate their own power. True or False?
True
1911
The Clare R. Copeland Transformer Station, Hydrostor or the Enwave Deep Lake Water Cooling system
How much of Ontario's energy output is made up of nuclear energy?
Why did the demand for electricity increase in the 1990s?
The Internet
By 1896, the Toronto Electric Light Company and the Toronto Incandescent Electric Light Company dominated the market for energy in Toronto. True or False?
True; they achieved such dominance due to electric lighting and electric railways becoming widespread
Name one of the additions to the Toronto skyline that was made during the 1960s and 1970s
First Canadian Place, Royal Bank Plaza, Hydro Place or the CN Tower
What percentage of residents in Ontario face energy poverty?
12%
How can Toronto offset its carbon emissions?
By expanding the tree canopy or by deploying carbon capture and storage technologies
The Clare R. Copeland Transformer Station is Canada's first completely underground transformer station. True or False?
False; it is Canada's second underground transformer station, with the first being the Cathedral Square Park station in downtown Vancouver