Conservation
Canadian Property Management
Ontario spurns unpaid building code advisors
The 2019 Ontario budget lists the Building Code Conservation Advisory Council among 10 provincial agencies deemed to be unnecessary or imprudent expenditures.
Canadian Property Management
Sponsor loss cramps Toronto race2reduce
After inspiring replica competitions in cities across Canada, the second run of the Toronto race2reduce has hit a roadblock.
Canadian Property Management
Ontario reroutes CDM program delivery
Local distribution companies have been the prime drivers of the Conservation First Framework, tasked with collectively attaining 7 million megawatt-hours of energy savings in the 2015-2020 period.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Jobs foreseen from energy efficiency spending
The 2019 federal budget allocates $950 million to underwrite retrofits and energy-efficient new development in the municipal, not-for-profit, private homeownership and affordable housing sectors.
Construction Business
Historic climate action spending appears modest
The promised $679 million amounts to $189 million of actual spending in 2019-20 since most of the investment is to be rolled out over a three-year period.
Canadian Property Management
Deep energy retrofit a winner for Olympic Park
An overhaul of the aging thermal plant combined with other system and equipment upgrades delivered a 31 per cent cut in energy use and a 57 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.
Canadian Property Management
CDM mandate survives Green Energy Repeal Act
Selected provisions enabling some of Ontario's key energy and water conservation programs will be transferred to the Electricity Act.
Canadian Property Management
Love helps bureaucrats embrace conservation
New guidance on the design, implementation and evaluation of energy efficiency policies and programs is an an effort to better inform current and future policy makers.
Canadian Property Management
James Bay communities develop local expertise
Energy conservation initiatives are cutting costs and supporting skills development that make health care operations more self-reliant in five James Bay communities.
Canadian Property Management
Energy efficiency messaging reset in Ontario
Energy efficiency advocates are working to enlist broader support and leverage existing influential backers at a time when government commitment is becoming more uneven across North American jurisdictions.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Toronto may extend reach of retrofit financing
Toronto Council is considering opening up a loan fund for energy upgrades to a larger pool of borrowers, including private sector landlords, condo corporations, health care and educational facilities.
Canadian Property Management
Quebec urges energy retrofits and fuel switching
Conservation is the top priority in Quebec's recently unveiled plan to reduce province-wide energy consumption, boost low-carbon supply and embrace electricity storage and smart grid applications.
Canadian Property Management
Alberta retracts promised retrofit incentives
Despite information posted on the Energy Efficiency Alberta website for more than a month, commercial customers do not qualify for the new incentives announced in May 2018.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Energy use disparity seen in housing tenures
Analysis of nearly 133,000 households across the United States reinforces intuitive assumptions about who is most likely to invest in energy-efficient appliances.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Toronto redeploys funds to multi-res landlords
Unused funds originally earmarked for energy retrofits in single-family housing will be transferred to a more popular program for the multi-residential sector.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Time-of-use electricity rates spark debate
The Ontario NDP's proposed plan would focus efforts to manage peak demand more narrowly on the Industrial Conservation Initiative and voluntary residential programs enabled through smart grid technology.
Canadian Property Management
Peak demand report cards imminent in Ontario
It's the the end of a rookie season for many larger commercial electricity customers participating in Ontario's Industrial Conservation Initiative.
