Authors
Zachary Rempel, Niall Harney, Mark Hudson, Laura Cameron, Zoe St. Aubin
- Pages
- 58
- Published in
- Canada
- Rights
- IISD, CCPA, 2024
Table of Contents
- Box 1. Economies of Scale: EnergieSprong in Europe 14
- Box 2. Climate Resilience in Manitoba 15
- Box 3. Lessons From the Canada Greener Homes Grant: A need to focus on the building envelope 19
- Box 4. Fuel Switching: Air source and ground source heat pumps as a key complement to DERs 21
- Box 5. The history of Manitoba’s Green Buildings Policy 23
- Box 6. Case study: Toronto Community Housing Corporation 24
- Box 7. Case study: The City of Toronto’s approach to DERs 43
- Table A1. Federal incentives for residential energy efficiency 56
- Table A2. Provincial incentives for residential energy efficiency 57
- Figure 1. Canadian data on residential energy use 16
- Figure 2. Average energy savings per retrofit by province, 2022 17
- 1.0 Introduction 10
- 1.1 Research Approach 12
- 2.0 Manitoba Buildings and the Energy Transition 13
- 2.1 What Are Deep Energy Retrofits? 13
- 2.2 The Potential of DERs in Manitoba 14
- 2.3 The High Price of DERs 17
- 2.4 Current Incentives for Energy Efficiency Upgrades 18
- 3.0 Delivering DERs at Scale in Manitoba 20
- 3.1 A Manitoba-Made Approach to Residential DERs 20
- 3.2 Policies to Support DERs: Procurement, building codes, and mandatory labelling 22
- 3.3 Financing Manitoba DERs: Costs, payoffs, subsidies, and mechanisms 27
- 3.4 Job Creation and Workforce Development 36
- 3.5 Fostering Stakeholder and Institutional Support for DERs 40
- 4.0 Summary of Recommendations 44
- 5.0 Conclusion 46
- References 48
- Appendix A. Existing Incentives for Building Energy Efficiency 56