Eagle Lake

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The Eagle Lake micro hydro facility, which began commercial operation in May 2003, is located in West Vancouver. Owned by the District of West Vancouver, and designed, built and operated by Pacific Cascade Hydro Inc., this project has taken a unique approach to green electricity generation. The District's domestic drinking water flows from Eagle Lake downhill through an underground pipe and into a large buried concrete storage reservoir, prior to entering the drinking water distribution system. In response to a suggestion made by a local resident, the District engineers determined that power could be generated using the energy of the water as it flowed from the lake to the reservoir. A Pelton turbine, manufactured in the Czech Republic, has now been installed and a power house constructed on the roof of the reservoir (see photo). The Eagle Lake micro hydro project has a capacity of 0.2 MW and will generate approximately 1.2 gigawatt-hours of electricity per year.