Small Community Infrastructure Sustainability - Energy

  • Funding Your Community Energy & Climate Change Initiatives

    The Community Energy Association is pleased to announce the release of Funding Your Community Energy & Climate Change Initiatives - a guide to funding and resources for local governments.
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  • Small Community Infrastructure - Energy Page

    This site has been designed as a tool for small communities. Users are encourage to submit articles and suggest changes. This will ensure that it is meeting your needs and allowing you to demonstrate and share your experiences and resources with others.
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  • BC HYDRO POWER SMART offers exciting new lighting design incentives

    BC HYDRO POWER SMART offers exciting new lighting design incentives for new commercial buildings. If you are planning to build a commercial building between 6,000 and approximately 50,000 square feet, then BC Hydro's new POWER SMART HIGH PERFORMANCE BUILDING PROGRAM FOR SMALL TO MEDIUM COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS is for you.
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  • BC Energy Plan: A Vision for Clean Energy Leadership

    The new BC Energy Plan: A Vision for Clean Energy Leadership puts British Columbia at the forefront with aggressive targets for zero net greenhouse gas emissions, new investments in innovation, and an ambitious target to acquire 50 per cent of BC Hydro’s incremental resource needs through conservation by 2020.
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  • Changing Demand for Diesel to Small Scale Micro Hydro

    The economic cost to the Gitga'at of relying on diesel-generated power was also high. In 2002, the price of diesel was approximately $0.60 per litre (diesel prices have subsequently doubled), resulting in an operating cost of 26¢ per kWh — more than four times higher than the cost of electricity for BC Hydro customers connected to the grid. Using diesel generators, the community's electricity costs per year exceeded $300,000. The Pembina Institute estimated that a new hydro project could generate power at a cost of 20¢ per kWh (including both capital and operating costs). Over 20 years, the community would save over $2.65 million dollars.
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  • Infrastructure Planning Grants fund 10 Energy Projects

    Ten of today’s grants also directly support the province’s energy plan by including projects ranging from community energy planning to assessing the feasibility of non-polluting energy sources.
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  • Smart Growth BC’s 2007 Conference: Building Complete Communities: Developers Leading the Way

    Smart Growth BC's 4th annual conference will focus on exploring the newest policies, technologies, and strategies for creating affordable, energy-efficient, walkable neighbourhoods in British Columbia.
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  • Throne Speech - February 13, 2007

    Exerpt from the Speech from the Throne - All new and existing electricity produced in B.C. will be required to have net zero greenhouse gas missions by 2016. That target may be unprecedented in North America, but it is achievable and realistic in B.C. Under the new energy plan, British Columbia will reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the oil and gas industry to 2000 levels by 2016.
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  • LocalMotion

    LocalMotion gives local governments extra resources to improve air quality, safety, reduce energy consumption, and encourage all British Columbians to get out and be more active in their communities.
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