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Resource Home energy and resilience upgrades Home energy and resilience upgrades

Video: Kingston supports homeowners with financing program for energy upgrades

Innovative financing models – like Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) or utility on-bill financing – can help residents afford the high cost of energy upgrades and contribute to local greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions. 
 
The City of Kingston, ON, has announced Be…

January 20, 2022

Resource Home energy and resilience upgrades Home energy and resilience upgrades

Resources: Community Efficiency Financing

Are you looking for tools and lessons learned to implement a financing program in your community? Our Community Efficiency Financing initiative helps municipalities deliver local financing programs for home-energy upgrades.From guidebooks to case studies, this resource library provides us…

January 25, 2022

Resource Sustainable affordable housing Sustainable affordable housing

Webinar recording: Asset management and energy conservation

In Canada, a significant portion of GHG emissions are produced by buildings. Non-profit housing also typically shows lower energy performance than comparable for-profit housing, particularly as Canada’s aging affordable housing stock’s building components deteriorate over time. Watch this webina…

March 28, 2022

Resource Home energy and resilience upgrades Home energy and resilience upgrades

Video: Nelson scales up local program to support home-energy upgrades

Innovative financing models – like utility on-bill financing and third-party lending – can help residents afford the high cost of energy upgrades and contribute to local greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions. Since 2012, the City of Nelson, BC, has been offering an on-bill financing program …

April 11, 2022

Case Study Local energy generation Local energy generation

Forestry waste proves ideal heat source for small town

In 2012, Saint-Ubalde, a small rural town in Quebec, launched a project to convert biowaste into biofuel to heat several municipal and institutional buildings. The high cost of oil heating and the town’s desire to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions inspired the municipality to conside…

September 15, 2020

Resource Energy | Housing Energy | Housing

Webinar recordings: Best practices in municipal sustainability

How are cities and communities of all sizes tackling their environmental challenges? Find out from our five-part webinar series on innovations and opportunities in municipal energy, waste, water, transportation and land use initiatives. You’ll hear from municipal champions who have successfully…

April 2, 2020

Resource Home energy and resilience upgrades Home energy and resilience upgrades

Factsheets: Community Efficiency Financing

Our Community Efficiency Financing initiative helps municipalities deliver local financing programs for home-energy upgrades. These programs can generate triple bottom line benefits—from lowering GHG emissions to boosting the local economy to improving homeowners’ quality of life. These five fac…

July 23, 2020

Case Study Sustainable affordable housing Sustainable affordable housing

Case study: Energy retrofit delivers multiple benefits

Summary Long-term savings in utility costs fund the major energy-efficiency retrofit of seven community-housing buildings, improving indoor air quality and comfort for 1,500 residents. Project Retrofit of seven community housing buildings Construction 2015–201…

May 6, 2020