The Mayor's Megawatt Challenge shares their roadmap to get ice rinks to net-zero! To prepare this roadmap to reach net zero in ice rinks, this pilot study looked at 9 ice arenas in Ontario and assessed the many ways of how emissions can be reduced before...
Please join us for this operator-to-operator interview with Bryan Hawn, Arena Supervisor at Kal Tire Place in Vernon, BC. This is a big arena and home of the Vernon Vipers of the BCHL - capacity 3,003 and 500 standing. A New Process to Reduce Costs - also in...
November 15, 2021 – Vancouver BC. The City of Vernon’s Kal Tire Place has said goodbye to its reliance on hot water to maintain its twin ice surfaces. Instead, it has installed a mechanical rink de-aerator to reduce energy costs, lower CO2 emissions -- and its...
HIGH RIVER, AB: Foothills County has implemented REALice device installation at Scott Seaman Sports Rink (SSSR) to increase energy efficiency for arena operations. “The installation of REALice at SSSR has eliminated the need for using hot water for ice rink flooding,” said Adeniyi Adeaga, Municipal Energy Manager...
The way Fred Kilner tells it, running after their ice was getting in the way of being icemakers. Two years into his retirement, we caught up with him as he was heading into the rink to meet up with some of the operations team for...
Nathan Kleinschmit, Engineering Manager and Ice Specialist at The Monument in Rapid City, SD, says ice quality wasn't ever an issue at their arena. After all, Rapid City has a pretty dry environment, and the hockey season is normally over before the hot weather begins. That...
Read the latest press release from the City of Leduc: AUGUST 24, 2021 - The City of Leduc's Alexandra Arena has said goodbye to its reliance on hot water to create and resurface the ice rink to reduce cost, and will be running cold through...
When Josh Welch from the Township of King in Ontario reached out to us about water quality, we pointed to one of our long-time customers in Castleton, VT. Castleton University's Spartan Arena has been using REALice to build and resurface ice since 2013, with fabulous results...
Okotoks, Alberta (July 09, 2021) - Rinks at the Okotoks Pason arenas and Recreation Centre recently got an upgrade in the form of new cold water flooding systems. The town's climate change and energy specialist Sheri Young says it's actually a pretty cool process. "This used to...
Lacombe, Alberta (June 17, 2021) - The City of Lacombe has purchased and installed a cold floodwater treatment system for their arena ice maintenance at the Gary Moe Auto Group Sportsplex to reduce the facility operating costs and its environmental footprint. The City's operations team will...