I'm sharing an interesting update from Ecology Ottawa on municipal energy efficiency retrofits:
The City of Ottawa recently committed to conducting a feasibility study
on municipal financing of energy efficiency retrofits.The concept is
not new and we have been calling on the
city to look into for some time. The David Suzuki Foundation
and others have produced compelling reports on the idea and it is being
implemented in other Canadian, North American
and European
jurisdictions. If we are to effectively work to prevent runaway climate
change, we must improve the built environment and become much less wasteful in
how we use electricity and energy in our homes and businesses.
The city has
determined that buildings (and how we heat and electrify them) are responsible
for nearly 60% of
the Ottawa community's greenhouse gas emissions.
Recently the city of
Toronto committed itself to a report (due to be tabled by October) on a pilot
project that would bring municipal financing of energy efficiency retrofits to
various areas of that city. Here in Ottawa, the feasibility study is expected
to be completed sometime in 2013.
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