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Community Action on
Energy
Efficiency Pilot Program
Three B.C.
communities - Kelowna, Quesnel and Atlin, have joined a new pilot program
called Community Action on Energy Efficiency that focuses on energy
efficiency projects in their community.
Auditorium, Taylor Park
With a
community energy plan in place, the municipalities will provide a “one-stop
shop” for energy efficiency program information and hire an energy
efficiency coordinator to support public and private-sector projects.
A second
focus of the CAEE program is to look at factors that prevent or limit the
development of energy efficiency in new buildings and those that affect the
improvement of existing buildings.
CAFE Project Updates:
City of
Kelowna:
partnered with FortisBC and a private property owner to review municipal
procedures affecting energy efficiency for new buildings and then merged
those practices with the development of sustainable buildings.
 | The
findings were summarized into a Sustainable Building Primer useful to
other communities for defining their own policies to create sustainable
buildings. |
City of Kelowna’s
Sustainable Building Pilot Project.
City of
Quesnel:
partnered with BC Hydro and Terasen Gas to hire an energy coordinator to
help retrofit 20 homes and several commercial and institutional buildings
for increased energy efficiency.
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project will also promote energy-efficient home designs and support the
use of energy efficiency features in the new North Cariboo Community
Campus of the College of New Caledonia. |
City of
Quesnel’s
Energy Efficiency Program.
Community of Atlin:
the Atlin-Tlingit Development Corporation will launch their new energy
efficiency programs in the fall of 2005.
The
Ministry will launch a similar First Nations and Remote Community Clean
Energy Program in the fall of 2005.
CAEE is
coordinated by the Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources and the
Office of Energy Efficiency at Natural Resources Canada.
For more information on Energy Efficiency,
please contact:
Alternative Energy Branch
(250) 952-0493 or (250) 952-0819
Or Enquiry B.C.
In Vancouver call: 604 660-2421
Elsewhere in B.C. call: 1 800 663-7867
Last Updated
April 02, 2007 |
