DiscoverEE

Biweekly Educational Webinar Series

DiscoverEE webinars are a bi-weekly educational series on various topics around energy efficiency. These webinars consist of a 20-minute presentation followed by a 25-minute community discussion (Q&A) for a total of 45 minutes. Join us Fridays at 12pm EST.

Sustainable Residential Buildings: How Greening our Buildings Could Create 72,000+ Construction Jobs by 2032

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The issue of climate change has become a pressing concern worldwide, and Canada is no exception. To combat climate change, the federal government is targeting greenhouse gas emissions reductions of 40% from 2005 levels by 2030 and net-zero by 2050. A key to meeting these ambitious targets will be retrofitting existing buildings away from fossil-fuel-powered heating equipment. BuildForce Canada’s Building a Greener Future report estimates the labour market implications for construction from this transition over the coming decade. Click here to register.

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Largest multi-residential smart building conversion in North America

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Join this session to learn about Drewlo Holdings’ ground-breaking project, a landmark in advancing energy conservation and sustainability in North America’s real estate sector. The project transformed over 85 multi-residential buildings and 10,000+ suites, marking a significant evolution in energy management for large multi-residential portfolios. Delivering a 34% HVAC utility reduction and a 36% GHG emissions reduction, this initiative underscores the growing importance of energy efficiency as a transformative force in the industry. It also serves as a scalable model for similar projects, influencing strategies for mass-scale energy and carbon footprint reduction.

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Catch up on past webinars in the DiscoverEE series

Building performance webinars

Empowering municipalities to adopt net zero building codes

Kevin Lockhart introduces the major findings of The Municipal Guide to Net-Zero Energy Ready Building Codes – what’s in the codes, what’s not in the codes, what energy conservation measures are typical at each tier, what tools each city has at their disposal and what municipalities can do.

What Municipalities Need to Know About Net Zero Emissions Building Codes

Efficiency Canada has released a new guide for municipalities. Kevin walks through what municipalities need to know about net zero emissions building codes, to prepare for the 2025 net zero emissions building code.

Building Our Way to Net Zero

Targets have been laid out for the construction industry – get new buildings to net zero by the early 2030s. Not long afterwards, we’ll do the same to existing buildings in Canada. But how are we going to achieve that? What are the practical hurdles that the construction industry faces?

Low Rise Residential - Vancouver’s path towards 100% renewable energy

Low rise residential makes up 70% of what Vancouver builds annually (in terms of heated floor area), this presentation talks about Vancouver’s journey towards renewable energy used for space heating and hot water in new construction.

Low-income energy efficiency webinars

Efficiency For All - Low-income energy efficiency programs in Canada

Energy poverty needs to be prioritized at the national level if the transition to net-zero emissions is to be fair and just, and energy efficiency should benefit all Canadians. 

Federal and provincial energy efficiency policy webinars

The 2022 Canadian Energy Efficiency Scorecard

Our Scorecard team presents the results of Efficiency Canada’s 2022 Canadian Energy Efficiency Scorecard. The Scorecard evaluates provincial policy and performance on energy efficiency over an 18-month period.

Efficiency Canada’s Five Key Areas for 2023

Wondering what Efficiency Canada sees as five critical policy areas in 2023? These focus areas will be crucial to reaching Canada’s climate goals by 2050 and beyond.

Indigenous energy efficiency webinars

An Overview of IESO’s Save on Energy Programs for First Nations Communities

Jimmy Lu from the IESO will provide an overview of energy efficiency in Ontario, the First Nations programs offered, and how the IESO is working with community partners to effectively deliver energy savings to First Nations.

Supporting Indigenous Energy Efficiency

Hear about what energy efficiency means from an Indigenous lens, what impacts it could have on communities, and how the Bringing It Home initiative is looking to support new projects and Indigenous leadership in this vital transition.

Innovation and technology in energy efficiency webinars

Air Sealing De-Mystified – A Custom Calculator That Instantly Measures and Evaluates Energy Savings

Every house needs to have drying potential, hence builders have to provide a mechanical ventilation system that brings in fresh air. However, as the house gets older it becomes leakier. To evaluate energy savings from air sealing, they’ll have to conduct the modelling twice. Now, a full Energuide audit will not be required anymore. Summerhill presents a tool also available in an app.

What’s next - Planning for an energy efficient future with innovative partnerships

Efficiency Manitoba’s Innovation Fund supports new and innovative energy-efficient technologies and approaches in the Manitoba market. It provides funding for near-term pilot projects and partnerships to reduce common barriers to emerging energy-efficient technologies and strategies and looks ahead to efficiency opportunities that can contribute to meeting our electricity and natural gas savings targets.

Industrial energy efficiency webinars

Strategies to Bolster Industrial Energy Management Practices in Canada

In this presentation, Efficiency Canada research manager James Gaede provides an overview of his recent research on industrial energy management programs and policy in Canada.

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