Provincial and Territorial Tiered Energy Code Adoption Landscape
To make new buildings climate-ready and affordable, provinces and territories should use the tiered code framework as intended by graduating to higher levels of building performance.
Toronto Moving Ahead on Building Performance Standards: What You Need to Know
Toronto is joining other major North American cities in mandating building performance standards.
Unlocking the Potential of Mandatory Building Performance Standards through Benchmarking
Explore solutions to enhance benchmarking adoption, drawing on lessons from other jurisdictions.
Making the case: Why we need Mandatory Building Performance Standards in Canada
Ambitious action on the part of Canada’s sub-national governments will ensure that all stakeholders in the buildings sector — including governments, industry and the workforce — have a clear and stable regulatory path forward, one that allows them to plan for future code requirements while investing in Canada’s net-zero future.
Clean Electricity and Energy Efficiency
The federal government is working on creating a Clean Electricity Regulation that will result in net zero electricity across Canada by 2035. Many in the industry are looking at how they would accomplish this goal including the Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO) who recently modelled the cost of achieving deep emission reductions in a province with some of the highest electricity emissions in the country.
Canada’s provinces lag leading American states in energy efficiency savings and spending
Efficiency Canada’s new report compares energy efficiency savings, targets, and spending in Canada and the United States.