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Canada Green Building Strategy Discussion Paper Responses from Efficiency Canada
September 16, 2022
At the end of April, 59 energy efficiency and supporting organizations signed onto a joint letter calling for the extension...
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Benchmarking Canadian province and American state energy efficiency program savings and spending
May 25, 2022
A new report by Efficiency Canada benchmarks performance between the Provincial Energy Efficiency Scorecard and its American counterpart, the American...
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Efficiency for All
March 30, 2022
A new report by Efficiency Canada shows how federal investment in existing low-income energy efficiency programs can help achieve net-zero...
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Lowering costs and enhancing equity to achieve net-zero emissions through energy efficiency
March 2, 2022
To achieve net-zero emission goals, this budget must strategically dedicate resources to prepare for a significant scale-up in energy efficiency....
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Workforce Requirements for Low-carbon Buildings
November 1, 2021
The building sector workforce, as presently composed, is not adequately equipped to deliver the scale and scope of green building...
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Efficiency Canada and the Appliance Standards Awareness Project’s Comments on the May 2021 Technical Bulletin
July 16, 2021
This letter constitutes the comments of Efficiency Canada and the Appliance Standards Awareness Project (ASAP) on the Natural Resources Canada...
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Building the Canada we want in 2050: Efficiency Canada’s perspectives on the National Infrastructure Assessment
July 7, 2021
We welcome the opportunity to provide our thoughts and perspectives on the priorities laid out in Building the Canada We...
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Canada’s Climate Retrofit Mission
June 15, 2021
Retrofitting our buildings at the scale and performance required to confront climate change calls for market re-shaping innovations. This report...
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Efficiency Canada’s submission to Vancouver City Council
June 8, 2021
We are writing to ask you to approve recommendation A, B, and C in the report, which will help reduce...
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Efficiency Canada’s comments on the NRCan May 2021 technical bulletin on amending the standards for central air conditioners and heat pumps
May 28, 2021
This letter constitutes the comments of the Appliance Standards Awareness Project (ASAP) and Efficiency Canada on the Natural Resources Canada...
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Efficiency Canada’s presentation to The House of Commons Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities
March 12, 2021
We usually think about energy efficiency on a building-by-building basis and leave the financing and project management of retrofits up...
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Carbon Pricing Expands in Canada, Making Slower Progress in the United States
March 2, 2021
As talk of a carbon tax resurfaces with the start of the Biden administration, some form of carbon pricing applies...
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Efficiency Canada’s joint submission to the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry
December 9, 2020
We are writing to encourage you to clearly mandate Canada’s national model codes development community to develop a highly energy...
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2020 Canadian Provincial Energy Efficiency Scorecard
November 17, 2020
The Canadian Provincial Energy Efficiency Scorecard tracks 42 policy and outcome-based metrics across all 10 provinces
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Efficiency Canada’s comments on Ontario’s Ministry of Energy, Northern Development and Mines’ ERO 019-2132 proposal
August 11, 2020
At the end of April, 59 energy efficiency and supporting organizations signed onto a joint letter calling for the extension...
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Efficiency Canada’s submission to the Government of Canada
August 7, 2020
The multiple benefits of energy efficiency can help Canada manage both demand and supply shocks from COVID-19 while improving the...
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Efficiency Canada’s Submission to the Town of Whitby
June 2, 2020
We are writing to you in support of the proposed changes to the Town of Whitby’s planning process that will...
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Efficiency Canada’s submission to the City of Vancouver
April 27, 2020
Measures to encourage energy efficient buildings can be used to immediately scale up capacity and knowledge sharing in the buildings...
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Efficiency Canada’s submission to the National Research Council of Canada (NRC)
March 13, 2020
The proposed Model Codes represent an important step towards Canada’s PCF commitments and low-carbon energy future, they will also play...
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2019 Reader Survey: Provincial Energy Efficiency Scorecard and Policy Database
February 11, 2020
Thousands of Canadians have downloaded our 2019 Provincial Energy Efficiency Policy Scorecard, and visited the accompanying national database of energy...
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Efficiency Canada’s Submission to the Ontario Ministry of Energy, Northern Development and Mines
December 12, 2019
The buildings sector is responsible for just under 1/3 of end use demand in Canada and is well-positioned to capture...
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2019 Canadian Provincial Energy Efficiency Scorecard
November 19, 2019
A national low-carbon transition requires a tripling of energy efficiency from current levels. Energy savings will be largely driven by...
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Efficiency Canada’s submission to the Newfoundland and Labrador Board of Commissioners of Public Utilities
October 25, 2019
Given Newfoundland and Labrador’s experience with cost overruns related to the Muskrat Falls Project,3 it is incumbent upon the Commissioners...
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