Why does your condominium need to report? Watch our quick video:
https://www.energy-efficiency.com/news/ew-and-ewrb
EWRB reporting is an opportunity to review your condo’s energy and water use and compare your condo with similar buildings. It is also a requirement under the Condo Act of Ontario and is an Ontario Regulation (O. Reg. 506/18).
Ontario regulation 506/18 mandates that all buildings over 100,000 SqFt must report their annual energy and water consumption to the Ministry of Energy, Northern Development and Mines by July 1st, 2022.
For the first-time in Ontario utilities are required to provide aggregated data. This is your opportunity to review aggregated consumption data and compare how energy and water are used. The July 1st deadline is quickly approaching.
Benchmarking is the first logical step in Energy Management. The second step is to properly understand what the data is saying – we help with both!
The BOMA Toronto Commercial Real Estate Trailblazers (CREST) Awards offer an opportunity to recognize the efforts of participants of the race2reduce (r2r) program who achieved top performance in the following categories:
Performance Leadership: Awarded for implemented measures that improve performance in each of the 4 subcategories, Electricity, Gas, Water, and Waste.
Innovative Excellence: Awards effective and creative strategies frameworks and technologies implemented to solve problems or achieve successes.
Collaborative Excellence: Recognizes the partnership between the landlord, tenant, and stakeholders to drive building performance.
Climate Champion: Demonstration of exceptional efforts to reduce emissions.
Energy@Work won the 2020 Collaborative Excellence Award and the 2021 Innovative Excellence Award and continues to help others earn recognition as well!
For full eligibility requirements and rules, visit https://boma-race2reduce.org/awards/ to access the full guidebook.
Efficiency Valuation Organization’s (EVO) PMVA designation demonstrates Amir’s proficiency in M&V and his ability to apply IPMVP to determine savings.
Most recently, Amir was able to comply with challenging M&V requirements using EVO’s (Efficiency Valuation Organization) Guideline for Non Routine Events (NRE) and Non Routine Adjustments (NRA), along with the latest RETScreen update, version 8.1, to demonstrate savings.
Amir was able to secure $3.2 million in savings, approximately 16,000,000 kWh or the equivalent of 1,684 Ontario homes annual electricity use. This was across 28 properties and was 3rd party verified by Toronto Hydro.
Energy@Work teamed up with Downtown BIA to create the Active Transportation Guide
The guide includes routes, safety tips, Cycling life hacks, and much more- check it out here!
Energy@Work has always encouraged cycling for all employees. The environmental and health benefits make it an obvious choice to us- particularly with the recent increase in bike lanes, making cycling within the city safer than ever! Energy@Work won the Best Overall Bike Friendly Building Award 2 years in a row in 2012 and 2013.
Some of the ways we encourage cycling to the office is:
offering a corporate discount to Toronto Bike share
providing an office bike for employees to borrow
keeping bike lights at the office for safe riding at night
Have fun, stay safe and have a happy Bike Month!
April 2022 GA cost is $0.728 billion. This is a 18% increase from March 2022 GA (it was $0.616 billion), Energy@Work provides a regular review of GAM costs and continues to ask “why?”
Every year, on June 15th, building owners with an average monthly demand over 1,000kW must decide whether their building will be Class A or Class B, this will determine how you pay your share of the GAM cost.
It can be complicated, however, if you do not submit your decision, your building will be placed in the default category.
Once a decision is reached, it’s time to develop a strategy for the year, beginning June 16th.
Energy@Work’s services includes a “GAM coach”. We maintain the importance of a GAM Strategy for Class A and Class B in order to win the (GAM)e. Our collective savings have exceeded $10 million, and we look forward to continuing to assist.
2022 marked the 9th year that Energy@Work collaborated with BOMA as Technical Advisor for the Beyond Earth Hour Challenge and we saw excellent results:
