City Energy Management Programs

The Office of Energy Management is responsible for monitoring the consumption of utilities and load changes for City owned assets and facilities. It also manages the City’s portfolio of energy-related contracts.

The Office supports the City’s Community Energy Transition Plan through its seven programs:

1. Awareness and Assessment framework: builds feasibility studies and cases based on the Energy Management Opportunity Assessment (EMOA) framework. Deliver City Energy 101 and manage learning pilots to educate City stakeholders related to energy efficiency and environmental sustainability including the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.
2. Lighting optimization: includes installing new lighting, reconfiguring lighting or using automated or adaptive lighting for indoor and decorative lighting. It is through this program that LED lights have been replaced on over 900 city-owned trees.
3. Optimized building envelopes: helps identify structural repairs necessary to reduce loss due to air and heat leakages that impact energy efficiency in existing facilities. The findings from the program feed City rehabilitation plans, maintenance plans and help optimize the design of new buildings.
4. Renewable energy sources: explores the use of renewable energy sources such as solar photovoltaic technology, wind turbine, hydro and localized biomass generation technology. The goal is to achieve reduction of greenhouse gas emission objectives for existing buildings using renewable energy sources. The most recent initiative for this program is the Solar PV Pilot Project at Queen Elizabeth Outdoor Pool.
5. Combined heat and power generation: includes co-generation in the form of the standalone generation of electrical power using natural gas. The City future Combined Heat and Power (CHP) Pilot Project will operate under this program.
6. Internal monitor and measure: executes internal reviews and audits to establish and manage Energy Profiles for existing assets and infrastructure. The monitoring and measurement framework tracks the results of all projects. The findings from City energy management pilots provide learning, enhance internal measurement and validation processes and guide planning for future installations at City facilities.
7. Compliance reporting: ongoing monitoring and reporting to external parties relating to the energy efficiency and environmental impact of City facilities. This includes LEED, building and environment standards compliance, and tracking and reporting of the GHG Footprint for City-owned and operated facilities.

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