A $1,000 grant from the Ontario Power Authority’s Power Saving Blitz and Horizon Utilities helped Lee’s Dundas Pharmacy improve store lighting and reduce electricity costs by 30 per cent.
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Motorcycle customizer RNR Custom Cycle Ltd. used a $1,000 Power Savings Blitz grant from the Ontario Power Authority and Guelph Hydro to upgrade its workshop lighting and cut its electricity bill by more than 10 per cent a month.
With a major focus on promoting sustainable development and green technologies, Exhibition Place has undertaken a range of energy efficiency and carbon reduction projects.
The Powerade Centre cuts its electricity use during high demand periods and adds to its bottom line by contracting with Enershift under the Ontario Power Authority’s Demand Response 3 initiative.
With support from the BOMA Toronto Conservation and Demand Management (CDM) incentive program funded by the Ontario Power Authority, GWL Realty Advisors (GWLRA) installed a new chiller in a downtown Toronto commercial property. The investment delivered tangible energy savings, enhanced tenant comfort, and reduced operating expenses.
Cara committed to a replacement lighting program with Power Save Solutions for it’s corporate stores under the Kelsey’s, Harvey’s, Swiss Chalet and Montana’s brands. In a massive national roll out. Power Save Solutions provided Cara with matched replacements for all of its existing light bulbs paying careful attention to their demand for esthetically specific bulb look and performance.
The Ontario Power Authority approached Loblaw – Ontario’s largest retailer and consumer of one percent of the province’s electricity demand – to assist in reducing electricity consumption during peak provincial demand periods at its Ontario grocery stores.
Air Liquide's Hamilton air-separation plant – the largest in Canada – produces 4,000 tons/day of gases for steel, medical and other industrial customers. The company operates three air-separation units on its 14-acre site.
Owens Corning’s plant in Guelph makes tens of thousands of tons of glass fibre annually for customer goods industries. The fiber glass, manufactured as thin thread-like strands, is used to make products such as interior car-door panels, ladder frames, tire cores and cafeteria trays.
Ropak Packaging has been replacing the existing lighting system to reduce electricity consumption by more than 670,000 kilowatts a year and electricity costs by $56,000.
The Jantzis, who have operated the family farm in the Kitchener-Waterloo region for over 30 years, recently took time out from running their farrowing and poultry farm to talk about the importance of controlling electricity costs.
Upgrading electrical, cooling and heating systems to improve energy efficiency and reduce the annual cost of purchasing steam by about $450,000.
St. Thomas-Elgin General Hospital (STEGH) is a 425,682-square foot, 166-bed facility servicing more than 89,000 residents in the surrounding area. STEGH’s management team wanted to do more to reduce energy usage and improve the facility’s infrastructure; its goal was a healthier hospital.
The University of Windsor provides graduate and undergraduate instruction to about 16,000 full-time and part-time students. The 40-building campus has approximately 2.8 million square feet of space and consumes about 53 million kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity annually.
The challenge for the university is to balance the spending of limited dollars for operating expenses versus investing in new energy efficiency to reduce costs.
With more than 250,000 square feet over six floors of study space and book collections, the McLaughlin Library is one of the biggest electricity consumers on campus. Replacing thousands of inefficient lighting fixtures and lamps and installing automatic timers and controls in the library was identified as a priority
Replacing thousands of older florescent lights at Mohawk College’s Fennell Street Campus with high-performance fluorescent lights and electronic ballasts provide a brighter lighting environment and reduce electricity costs.
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