Manitoba Builds Green

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