Volume 3 - Program & Project Ideas (PDF - 4.5 - Natural Life Network
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<strong>Natural</strong> Resources Canada – Community Energy Systems<br />
Source: Portland Office of Sustainable Development.<br />
http://www.sustainableportland.org/energy_com_best.html.<br />
-Additional resources<br />
The winning projects are documented in case studies and available at<br />
http://www.sustainableportland.org/stp_best_cs_category.html#water%20cons<br />
B. 3.1.3 Community at large<br />
- Case study: Whitehorse, Yukon<br />
The Energy Solutions Centre offers technical services and helps deliver a range of<br />
government programs to help find homegrown solutions to local energy problems. The<br />
intent of this one-stop shop is to help people save money on their energy bills and reduce<br />
greenhouse gas emissions by using alternative energy sources. Run by the Yukon<br />
government, the office operates out of a downtown Whitehouse office and assists in the<br />
development of a wide range of renewable energy projects, and some of them are<br />
described below.<br />
• An air-to-heat pump takes heat from –20 degrees Celsius weather outside to<br />
heat a single-family home in Whitehorse, saving $8,000 per year in heating<br />
costs.<br />
• Technicians in the Home Call <strong>Program</strong> visit houses and install energy<br />
efficient devices such as insulating blankets wrapped around hot water heaters<br />
and compact fluorescent light bulbs, saving $215 per household per year in<br />
energy costs, and for the total program, eliminating 1,854 tonnes of CO2 from<br />
being released into the atmosphere.<br />
• The Yukon Brewing Company uses cold winter air to provide the cooling<br />
power for brewing beer, and recycles the heat produced during the brewing<br />
process to heat the building by the use of free-cooling and ground water heat<br />
pumps.<br />
The Energy Solutions Centre was recognized in 2001 by the Canadian Energy Efficiency<br />
Alliance for its leadership in energy efficiency. Municipalities could use this as a model<br />
to set up their own energy solutions centre.<br />
Left: A customer walks into the<br />
centrally located Energy Solutions<br />
Centre in Whitehorse. Photo<br />
courtesy of the Energy Solutions<br />
Centre.<br />
Source: Energy Solutions Centre.<br />
http://www.nrgsc.yk.ca/about.php For<br />
additional information contact the<br />
Yukon Development Corporation. Tel.:<br />
(867) 393-7062. http://www.nrgsc.yk.ca/<br />
For additional information on the above<br />
projects telephone (867) 393-7062.<br />
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