Blogs
Statement in response to the federal government’s energy affordability announcement
October 27, 2023
Efficiency Canada has long emphasized the need for a national low-income energy efficiency strategy.
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Toronto Moving Ahead on Building Performance Standards: What You Need to Know
October 20, 2023
Toronto is joining other major North American cities in mandating building performance standards.
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Canadian Heat Pump Myth Buster
August 1, 2023
Heat pumps offer building owners and occupants many benefits including increased comfort, often lower utility costs and access to efficient...
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Unlocking the Potential of Mandatory Building Performance Standards through Benchmarking
June 16, 2023
Explore solutions to enhance benchmarking adoption, drawing on lessons from other jurisdictions.
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Making the case: Why we need Mandatory Building Performance Standards in Canada
January 30, 2023
Ambitious action on the part of Canada’s sub-national governments will ensure that all stakeholders in the buildings sector — including...
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2022 Year in Review
December 15, 2022
Energy Efficiency had a big year in 2022. We saw some major advancements in the sector and made some substantial...
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Fall 2022 provincial and territorial tiered energy code adoption landscape
October 27, 2022
Ambitious action on the part of Canada’s sub-national governments will ensure that all stakeholders in the buildings sector — including...
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New data shows need to expand low-income energy efficiency funding to target all fuels
October 19, 2022
With energy costs going up, and low-income Canadians spending more on electricity and natural gas than fuel oil, we need...
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Clean Electricity and Energy Efficiency
October 11, 2022
The federal government is working on creating a Clean Electricity Regulation that will result in net zero electricity across Canada...
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The feds deliver (limited) support for low-income energy efficiency
September 21, 2022
New federal funding aims to address climate change and affordability, but is it sufficient?
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Cutting emissions in the buildings sector through Canada’s national model codes
July 25, 2022
Supported by the sector, a national model code objective has been put forward that recognizes the impact of operational and...
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Polling: Canadians support low-income energy efficiency
June 28, 2022
New polling data shows strong national support for low-income energy efficiency. However, the federal government still has no strategy to...
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What the new Federal Green Building Strategy could look like (part two)
May 19, 2022
In part one, we examined five high level themes that could help guide Canada’s new federal Green Building Strategy. Part...
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What the new Federal Green Building Strategy could look like (part one)
May 12, 2022
By establishing “net-zero emissions” as the goal of the Green Building Strategy the federal government will need to lead a...
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Ontario’s approach to tiered code adoption highlights the need for federal supports
April 13, 2022
In this blog, we dig into the intent of the 2020 model building codes, how Ontario is adopting and harmonizing...
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