Manitoba Hydro Place - MHP Energy Use

MHP Energy Use

MHP targets electric usage less than 100 kWh/m²/a compared to 400 kWh/m²/a for a typical large scale North American office tower, located in a more temperate climate.

Specifically, the average cold-climate Class A Canadian office uses 400–550 kWh/m2 per year. A typical office space in Manitoba uses 495 kWh/m2 per year. Five years before the MHB was designed the typical office space in Canada utilized used 550 kWh/m2 per year. Because of recent work to reduce energy consumption in Winnipeg, a typical office highrise in the city uses approximately 325 kWh/m2 annually. Current annual Canadian energy targets for Class A office towers are 260kWh/m2.

MHP has a projected annual use of 88 kWh/m2 per annum, exceeding the Model National Energy Code for Buildings (MNECB) by 66%. As of early 2012, Manitoba Hydro has not yet released any measured energy consumption data for public review to verify their energy-efficiency claims.

The building targets Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification at the platinum level, the highest level of a four tier rating system. By mid-2011, two and half years after it opened, MHP still awaited formal certification, a time-consuming process that none of the province's seventy buildings seeking certification had achieved (by mid-2011).