Embracing energy efficiency

A number of actions are suggested that, when combined with an informed and effective approach to energy efficiency overall, will be important to ensure Yukon benefits from a changing climate: • Investigating the feasibility and utility of time-of-use rates by the Yukon energy sector, including the feasibility of installing a smart-grid in the territory. [...] Ensuring Yukon Benefits from Climate Moderated Heating Demand 3 The Influence of Climate Change on Energy Markets Climate change will have a number of direct 5 per cent with a potential national savings in and indirect effects on global and local energy the billions of dollars (Mideske and Kallbekken, markets. [...] For example, as the the available literature on this subject, is the annual climate of the US warms, the shift in impacts of increased cooling (for example, energy demand in San Francisco will be very Mideska and Kallbekken, 2010; Aebischer different from the shift observed in Chicago et al, 2007). [...] It should be noted that the overall increase in average annual temperature decrease in HDD over this century identified in described in the preceding section together the modeling results, demonstrating a medium form the basis of the energy demand model reduction in HDD of 1044 HDD or 17per cent, developed by Yukon government Energy is comparable with the projected long term Branch to quantitative [...] For example, on Energy Demand the connection of two industrial customers (Victoria Gold and Carmacks Copper) would The modelled impacts of climate moderated add a load of 1,58GWh/year to the existing of energy demand suggest that the key energy demand (YEC, 2012), which dwarfs the assumptions identified by Mideska et al (2010) 16GWh/year demand that may be mitigated will hold true for Yukon and th