FEI-FEVI 2010 EEC Report filed March 31, 2011 - FortisBC

FORTISBC ENERGY INC. AND FORTISBC ENERGY (VANCOUVER ISLAND) INC.
2010 ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND CONSERVATION ANNUAL REPORT
Goals
Administration
Communications
expected to significantly surpass what can be accomplished via a prescriptive
program. These may include measures that will:
• Make use of alternative energies, with gas backup
• improve building envelope performance;
• use more efficient gas burning equipment or systems;
• recover and reuse energy that is currently lost;
• capture and use solar energy for heating air or water;
• reduce the rate of energy consumption by systems or equipment in low
occupancy periods; and
• eliminate unnecessary energy usage by shutting off idling or unneeded
equipment
Energy saving measures will be presented to the Companies for review, in an energy
study format prepared by a qualified consultant. Qualified consultants are
engineering professionals, retained by the program participants, who meet the
technical proficiency and experience requirements of the Companies.
• To capture energy savings from otherwise difficult to incent measures
including whole building measures.
• To foster additional capacity and design expertise with custom energy
savings measures in BC.
• Maintain a program TRC score greater than 1.0 and optimize the proportion
of incentives over administration and marketing costs.
Implementation
Handled by in-house EEC staff, BC Hydro Power Smart staff, and outside service
providers where necessary.
Promotion of the custom program will be driven primarily via direct contact with
target participants by the Companies’ staff or the program’s qualified consultants.
Target customers should include:
o Health care administrators;
o Education administrators;
o Large institutional property managers (i.e. Nexacor, Profac, and so on);
o Municipalities – facilities and/or energy managers as well as municipal
planners;
o Provincial government - facilities and/or energy managers; and
o Builders and developers.
Additional promotion via:
Speaking engagements, where ever possible, to the target audience;
Lunch and learn sessions with relevant professionals such as: energy
managers, architects, engineering consultants, property developers.
Potential magazine and webpage advertisements with publications and
organizations such as: AIBC / ArchitectureBC magazine, APEGBC / Innovation
magazine, BOMA BC eNews, ASHRAE-BC Totem newsletter, Agriculture Climate
Action Initiative funding catalogue, and BC Greenhouse Growers Association.
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