ELECTRICITY
ERIP
The Ontario Power Authority (OPA) and partnering Local
Distribution Companies (LDCs) will continue to offer the Electricity
Retrofit Incentive Program (ERIP) in 2009. ERIP offers incentives for
electricity upgrades to municipal facilities. Under ERIP there are two
ways to conserve:
(1) Prescriptive Track: predefined technologies (see the list below)
with corresponding per-unit or performance-basis savings measures and
the incentive is based on what is installed; and
(2) Custom Track: more specific solutions to electricity efficiency
retrofitting. All technology equipment and systems are evaluated on the
basis of their power and energy performance improvement and
the incentive offered is based specifically on the level of
improvement.
To get started: Contact your LDC (there are 66 participating LDCs) or
contact the OPA directly.
High Performance New
Construction Program www.hpnc.ca
The
High Performance New Construction Program rewards electrical energy efficiency in the design of all new
commercial, industrial, institutional, multi-residential and
agribusiness buildings. Enbridge Gas Distribution, with the help
of Union Gas, has been appointed by the OPA to deliver this program
across the Province of Ontario (with the exception of Toronto area code
416).
GAS
Enbridge Gas
Enbridge Gas Distribution Inc. (“Enbridge”) offers free
technical advice and financial rebates for implementing energy
efficiency improvements. Enbridge has a range of incentives for municipalities and can also
provide energy consultants to help with your specific energy needs.
Union Gas
The Energy Efficiency section of Union Gas offers a range of programs
to help customers save money and energy.
The following documents offer municipalities consider either a range
of listed energy efficiency measures or a custom installation rewards
for making the switch:
Natural Resources Canada ecoENERGY Retrofit
Incentive for Buildings
Natural Resources Canada’s Office of Energy
Efficiency (OEE) offers a financial incentive to help your organization
implement energy-saving projects in commercial and institutional
buildings. The OEE will consider most proven energy efficiency and
renewable energy measures. The incentive is based on the lowest of the
following three amounts:
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$10 per gigajoule (277.8 kilowatt hours) of estimated annual energy
savings;
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25 percent of eligible project costs; or
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$50,000 per project ($250,000 per organization).
The estimated payback of your investment must be at least one year,
after taking into account incentives from all sources.
Each building can have an area no more than 20 000 square
metres (215 279 square feet), and you must continue to use the space for
the same purpose. Organizations that own, manage or lease the following
types of buildings can apply:
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Commercial and institutional buildings;
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Provincial, territorial and municipal government buildings;
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Multi-unit residential buildings (with at least four storeys or a
footprint of at least 600 square metres and a common entrance);
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Mixed-use commercial/residential buildings.
Visit ecoaction.gc.ca/retrofit to
access the Application Guide and forms, or for information about the
industrial component of the program and complementary incentives. If you
have questions after you have read the materials, you can contact the
OEE at info.services@nrcan.gc.ca or toll free at
1-877-360-5500.
Ontario Solar Thermal Heating Incentive
(OSTHI)
The Province has allocated up to $14.4 million
dollars, available until March 31, 2011 to encourage Ontario
municipalities and other entities to install qualifying solar thermal
heating equipment.
Ontario’s Program is administered by the Ministry of Energy and is
similar to the federal government’s ecoENERGY for Renewable
Heat program (“Federal Program”)
administered by Natural Resources Canada (“NRCan”), except
the Ontario Program has the additional criteria that the applicant
must:
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Be an ICI entity situated in
Ontario
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Have submitted to NRCan, an application to
ecoENERGY for Renewable Heat postmarked on or after June 20, 2007, the
date that the OSTHI Program was announced by the Government of
Ontario
City of Toronto’s Energy Efficiency
Office (EEO) Incentive Database
The City of Toronto’s Energy Efficiency
Office (EEO) is responsible for developing and coordinating the
implementation of an energy efficiency and conservation strategy for
Toronto. This is in response to the City's commitment to reduce carbon
dioxide emissions by 20 percent, relative to 1988 levels. The EEO has
put together an energy incentives database of grants, rebates and loans
that it hopes to keep updated in 2008. View: Energy Incentive
Program Scan
The Ontario’s Energy Efficiency Resource &
Funding Guide
- Ontario Energy Efficiency Resource
Guide - Produced by the Ministry of Energy and
Infrastructure, the guide aims to provide current information about
the many programs, financial incentives, and resources that are
available to help Ontarians to conserve and to achieve greater energy
efficiency.
- Searchable Incentives Guide - There
are many conservation and renewable energy programs available in Ontario
to help you in your efforts to be more energy aware. They are offered by
various levels of government, by local electricity and natural gas
utilities, by non-profit agencies, and by many other associations.
These initiatives and programs undertaken by groups and individuals
across Ontario are of vital importance to our economy and our
environment.
This searchable incentives guide brings together information designed
to assist you in finding the programs best suited to your interests and
needs - whether you are looking for more information, practical
assistance, financial incentives, or other resources. It will be updated
regularly, as new projects are launched and others reach their end, so
please keep checking back.
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