Incentives talk

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Incentives talkConservation Incentives
AdvisorRob Detta Colli (416)
450-7989Advisor_at_TowerWise.ca
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My Mandate is
IS IS NOT
Rental Condo Social Housing New Build
416 905
Smaller portfolio focussed Large portfolio focussed
One-window to incentive info Replacing energy professionals
Informational Selling retrofits
Current incentives New money
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Why do people offer incentives?

• Government Incentives
• Its not their money its ours!
• Its in the publicsbest intereste.g. costs of
  pollution
• Regulated by Government
• Condition of licencing
• Publics best interest
• Infrastructure cost avoidance
• Revenue formula changes for conservation

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Whats next?

• Heat Electricity
• Solar Thermal ?
• Solar Electricity ?
• Wind ?
• Geo-thermal ?
• Co-Gen ? ?

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Solar Thermal

• Federal Provincial
• ecoEnergy Retrofit (a.k.a. NRCan program)not
  stackable with
• Federal ecoEnergy for Renewable Heat
• Last application - October 1, 2010
• Max - 400,000 per Solar Water install80,000
  per Solar Air
• Performance Factor x Incentive Rate x
  Collector Area
• Perf. Factor - There is a list of accepted solar
  collectors1
• Incentive Rate - /m2Solar Air, Solar Water
  GlazedUnglazed
• E.g. (Unglazed) 0.97 x 30 /m2 x 4 x 10 x
  10 1,065
• Provincial (OSTHI) matches ecoEnergy 1,065
• A 50 accelerated CCA is provided under Class
  43.2 of Schedule II

1 - http//ecoaction.gc.ca/ecoenergy-ecoenergie/h
eat-chauffage/v2008/collectors-capteurs-eng.cfm
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Solar Electricity

• Federal
• ecoEnergy Retrofit (a.k.a. NRCan program)not
  stackable with
• ecoEnergy for Renewable Power
• To March 31, 2011
• 1 cent/kWh for up to 10 years
• A 50 accelerated CCA is provided under Class
  43.2 of Schedule II
• Provincial
• Feed-In-Tariff

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Wind Electricity

• Federal
• ecoEnergy Retrofit (a.k.a. NRCan program)not
  stackable with
• ecoEnergy for Renewable Power
• To March 31, 2011
• 1 cent/kWh for up to 10 years
• A 50 accelerated CCA is provided under Class
  43.2 of Schedule II
• Provincial
• Feed-In-Tariff

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Geothermal Co-Gen

• Geothermal - Federal
• ecoEnergy Retrofit (a.k.a. NRCan program)
• Co-Generation - Provincial
• Clean Energy Standard Offer Program
• ecoEnergy Retrofit (a.k.a. NRCan program)

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Standard incentives?
Enbridge BPP Tor Water NRCan
Audits ? ?
Electricity ? ?
Gas ? ?
Water ? ? ?
Start Date Case by case New App Jan 2008 Old App Jul 2006 Annually Pre-approval required
End Date N/D Sept 2010 Apr 2011 for chillers 2011 MAR 2012
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Enbridge

• Audits
• Up to 5,000
• Must implement to save 25 of gas savings before
  
• Must be of a specific form
• 10 or 15 per m3
• Typical - 25 reduction, 150,000 m3 15,000
• Boilers Controls
• VSDs
• Showerheads
• Trick Install 1 hi-eff and get higher incentive
  for everything

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Toronto Better Building Partnership

• Audits
• 35 per unityupcan be used with Enbridges
• 4 measures must be assessedi.e. not just
  lighting
• Must have done at least 1 recommended measure
• Traditional or modeling approaches
• Prescriptive
• No pre-approval No energy calculations required
• Based on a predefined eligibility list
• 1 to 250 per fixture

• Exit signs
• EnergyStar CFLs
• Standard T8s
• T5s
• Occupany Sensors
• Photocells timers
• Programmable Thermostats

• Non-electric Chillers
• Heat Pumps
• Solar Hot Water
• Gas Dryers
• Energy Star appliances

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Toronto Better Building Partnership

• Calculated 7 per kWh or 400 per kW
• Anything covered must be able to prove the
  savings
• Must have before and after photos
• Limited to 50 of the project cost
• Trick Anything thats 24/7calculated gives
  more
• Application is really only 4 of the 17 pages

• HVAC upgrades
• Building automation
• Chiller replacements
• Deep lake water cooling

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And if you dont listen to any of that
Move forward with energy projects How will HST
impact your project costs and utility
bills? Will OPA incentives continue for lighting?