Energy efficiency programs popular in its first year
Posted Jan 5, 2018 7:46 pm.
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A new report shows many Albertans are taking part in environmentally friendly programs.
Energy Efficiency Alberta released its year-end results Friday and it shows many households participated.
CEO Monica Curtis said the numbers are impressive when it comes to homes on the market in the first six to eight months.
“To have ten per cent of all Alberta households choose to participate in a program is phenomenal,” she said. “Those are the kinds of results that other jurisdictions that have run these programs are seeing in a number of years not a number of months.”
Curtis said that has resulted in $300-million in energy cost savings.
“About $45-million in participation programs, $9 million energy-efficient products into the marketplace and avoided almost three million tonnes in greenhouse gas emissions as part of our first residential suite of programs.”
She said they’re also supporting Alberta businesses.
“We already have more than eleven hundred home improvement companies and two hundred retailers representing over six hundred locations across the province that has helped deliver energy efficiency programs and products.”
It’s expected this will help create 1,200 jobs in the private sector.
The government organization was created in 2017 as part of the Alberta’s Climate Leadership Plan.
