The City of Vancouver has embarked on a multi-year initiative to build a Citywide network of industry specific power kiosk at the most commonly used parking and film locations.
The goal is to have a power kiosk within 10 minutes of any film location in the City in the next five years. These sites will primarily be areas that are popular staging locations such as circus parking lots as well as a small number of popular film locations.
It is estimated that when built, these sites could reduce 1/3 of the number of generators used by the local film industry. We also hope that this program can be a catalyst for the broader adoption of other clean energy technology to reduce the remaining 2/3 of generator use.
Open Data & Crowd Sourcing
This is a data driven initiative and highly dependent on usage information and site selection insights from subject matter experts in the industry (You!). For the past 2 years the focus has been on data collection and in late 2020, we joined with Reel Green to expand these efforts with the online and open data platform MapMe.
We are now ready to take it to the next level, crowd sourcing your insights on site selection!
Industry Insights Needed
As industry experts you have insights and perspective that can help make this initiative successful. For example, what locations do you know are popular now, but may not be in the future? Are there sites that should be considered, even if the current statistics don’t indicate high levels of demand?
What can you do?
1. Visit Vancouver.ca/film-clean-energy
2. Explore the generator use data on MapMe
3. Download the fillable PDF to list your top 5 picks
4. Submit the form online or email to film.office@vancouver.ca