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Natural Resources Canada – Community Energy Systems Source: Portland Office of Sustainable Development. http://www.sustainableportland.org/energy_com_best.html. -Additional resources The winning projects are documented in case studies and available at http://www.sustainableportland.org/stp_best_cs_category.html#water%20cons B. 3.1.3 Community at large - Case study: Whitehorse, Yukon The Energy Solutions Centre offers technical services and helps deliver a range of government programs to help find homegrown solutions to local energy problems. The intent of this one-stop shop is to help people save money on their energy bills and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by using alternative energy sources. Run by the Yukon government, the office operates out of a downtown Whitehouse office and assists in the development of a wide range of renewable energy projects, and some of them are described below. • An air-to-heat pump takes heat from –20 degrees Celsius weather outside to heat a single-family home in Whitehorse, saving $8,000 per year in heating costs. • Technicians in the Home Call Program visit houses and install energy efficient devices such as insulating blankets wrapped around hot water heaters and compact fluorescent light bulbs, saving $215 per household per year in energy costs, and for the total program, eliminating 1,854 tonnes of CO2 from being released into the atmosphere. • The Yukon Brewing Company uses cold winter air to provide the cooling power for brewing beer, and recycles the heat produced during the brewing process to heat the building by the use of free-cooling and ground water heat pumps. The Energy Solutions Centre was recognized in 2001 by the Canadian Energy Efficiency Alliance for its leadership in energy efficiency. Municipalities could use this as a model to set up their own energy solutions centre. Left: A customer walks into the centrally located Energy Solutions Centre in Whitehorse. Photo courtesy of the Energy Solutions Centre. Source: Energy Solutions Centre. http://www.nrgsc.yk.ca/about.php For additional information contact the Yukon Development Corporation. Tel.: (867) 393-7062. http://www.nrgsc.yk.ca/ For additional information on the above projects telephone (867) 393-7062. Draft 4/11/2005 94
Natural Resources Canada – Community Energy Systems -Additional resources For information on the Canadian Energy Efficiency Alliance see http://www.energyefficiency.org For an inventory of Climate change initiatives in the Yukon see http://www.taiga.net/nce/yc4/initiatives/closer.html -Case study: San Diego, CA, USA The City delivers a state program called Climate Wise-Energy Star® Action Plans that publicly recognizes sustainable businesses. Annual Savings from Strategic Energy Plans during 2000 are significant. • Approximately $3.5 million (US) in savings. • 22 million kilowatt-hours of electricity have been saved. • 1.6 million gallons of gasoline has been avoided. • 23,000 tons of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse house that contributes to global warming has been avoided. Source: City of San Diego http://www.sannet.gov/environmental-services/resource/action.shtml Draft 4/11/2005 95
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