Playland Energy Assignment

By: Evelyn Pun, Katie Santos, Ruby Ollivier, Maddi Vaisbord

For our assignment at Playland we had to pretend we were energy

conservation officers, and determine how much energy Playland uses and what it
costs to run. We used the time span of an eight hour day in our equations. We
also got some of our numbers from BC Hydro. For each component that requires
energy, we will need to find out how much energy it uses in kw then multiply it by
8 hours to turn it into kwh. We then use the formula for cost to determine how
much money each component costs to run. The formula for cost is: (cents per
kwh x number of kwh= cost)

First we needed to find how much energy the rides use. Then we found out how
much each of those rides cost.

Next we needed to find out how much energy an average food stand uses
and multiply that by how many food stands there are.

1500x12=18000 kWh approx.

1800x8=14,000
14,000x 0.10 = $1,400
We need to now find out how much energy an average public washroom uses
and multiply that by the number of washrooms there are.

16kwx4=64 kwh
64 kwh x $0.12
cost=$7.68 approx.

Then we find out how much each vending machine uses and multiply that by how
many vending machines there are.

0.92 Kwh x 6
=5.52
44.16x$0.2
=$8.83

Now we need to find out how much energy the arcade uses.
Kwh per arcade game approx. 0.09x30=2.7kwh

2.7x8=21.6
Cost per kWh $0.012
0.12x58.3
$600

Then we make an estimate on how much energy they use in lights.

0.14kwh per light x 10 000= 1400

Now we add all those numbers together

Rides $ 50,000approx
Lights $1400 approx.
Food Stands $1400 approx.
Washrooms $7.68 approx.
Arcade $600
Vending machines $8.83

Playland costs approximately $53,416.51 to run

 Here are some photos of us enjoying our time at Playland

In conclusion we do not think Playland is worth keeping because it is on prime

real estate, and expanding it would only take up more of that prime real estate.
That land could be used for something much more practical like social housing,
residential, condos, community centers, etc. Any land in Vancouver is very
valuable and using a huge plot for a theme park is utterly useless. Expanding it is
one of the worst ideas ever thought of, how would you even get that kind on land
inside of Vancouver? Moving it out to Cloverdale would make it easier to buy a
bigger plot to build on and would make it less crazy in Vancouver around the
Playland area.