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Click here for full report text (1.07MB PDF): Energy Efficiency Initiative Designs and Achievable Potential for Prince Edward Island
This report presents a portfolio of cost-effective, all-fuels energy efficiency initiatives that if pursued on Prince Edward Island would substantially reduce energy use and lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2017. This study examined energy and GHG savings potential in the following sectors:
Residential
Commercial and Institutional (C&I)
Transportation
The development of this portfolio of initiatives was informed by the estimation of the achievable energy efficiency potential for Prince Edward Island in the 2008 through 2017 timeframe. Different analytical approaches were used to estimate the achievable potential in the buildings (residential and C&I) and transportation sectors. Efficiency opportunities in the industrial and agricultural sector were not part of this study’s scope. The province may focus on efficiency opportunities in these sectors at a later date.
While Prince Edward Island (PEI) is a recognized leader in the use of renewable energy development – approximately 18% of its electricity is produced by wind and biomass (wood and municipal solid waste) – the Province has not yet aggressively pursued energy efficiency opportunities. While a limited number of efficiency activities have been implemented as a result of federal, provincial and utility efforts, there has not been a comprehensive set of efficiency initiatives offered to PEI’s residents and businesses. This report characterizes this savings opportunity and its corresponding greenhouse gas emissions impacts and proposes a set of initiative designs that could be implemented to attain significant reductions in both energy use and GHG emissions. A ten-year initiative implementation timeframe (2008-2017) is assumed.
Benefits from implementing the proposed initiatives include, but are not limited to:
Reducing consumer and business energy bills
Lowering emissions of greenhouse gases and other pollutants
Stimulating the PEI economy by reducing outflows of consumer energy dollars
Avoiding or delaying capital expenditures for upgraded transmission or distribution facilities
Increasing the percentage of energy use met by on-island renewables by reducing energy demand
Job creation
Pursuit of these benefits is generally consistent with both federal and provincial policies, e.g. the Renewable Energy Act, and pronouncements on energy and the environment.
This information has been taken from www.gov.pe.ca