June 2017. These are the highlights of the “2050 Pathway to a Low-Carbon Toronto” City of Toronto staff report #2.” This document outlines key recommendations and emphasizes three major campaigns: mobilize low carbon neighbourhoods, prepare for electric mobility, and develop the workforce for high-performance buildings.
Issue: Energy Efficiency and Conservation
Social Venture Development: Insights from the Incubation of Efficiency Capital Corporation
June 2017. In 2015, The Atmospheric Fund (TAF) incubated Efficiency Capital Corporation (ECC), a for-profit energy efficiency financing company over the course of three years, with a private investor. Incubating a social venture was one impact investment strategy TAF chose to advance its mandate of reducing barriers to and mobilizing investment in energy efficiency retrofits, […]
Retrofit Case Studies Energy, Health, and Comfort Transformations in Multi-Unit Buildings
February 2017. In the most recent phase of the TowerWise program, TAF coordinated energy efficiency retrofits across seven Toronto Community Housing and three housing co-ops. This slide deck provides an overview of the retrofit measures and achieved benefits.
BEE-Cal Policy Calculator
May 2017. The Building Energy Efficiency Policy Calculator (BEE-Cal for short) is an Excel-based tool that estimates the energy reductions, emission reductions, and associated benefits resulting from municipal policies that target energy consumption in buildings. It provides a preliminary impact assessment of the various city-level building energy efficiency policy options based on an embedded database […]
BEE-Cal Methodology
May 2017. The Building Energy Efficiency Policy Calculator (BEE-Cal) is an Excel-based tool to estimate and compare the energy savings, emission reductions, and other benefits from municipal building energy efficiency policies. This methodology document outlines the sources of data, calculation steps, and policy assumptions associated with the calculations.
TAF Guide Energy Efficiency Financing Tools
March 2017. Financing tools that help building operators overcome the upfront cost retrofits are critical to help accelerate energy efficiency across market segments. This guidance note is intended to provide readers with a practical overview of the range of energy efficiency financing tools currently in use in North America, with a focus on mechanisms that […]
TAF Submission Ontario Green Bank
January 2017. Government of Ontario. A longstanding objective of TAF has been to help with the creation of Canada’s first ‘green bank’ right here in Ontario. To this end, TAF proposed a number of recommendations to the Ontario Ministry of Environment and Climate Change. The envisioned “Ontario Green Bank” would focus on lowering one of […]
BEE-Cal Manual
May 2017. The Building Energy Efficiency Policy Calculator (or BEE-Cal for short) is an Excel-based tool that estimates the energy savings, emission reductions, and associated benefits resulting from municipal policies that target energy consumption in buildings. This quick start manual will help you to use the calculator and interpret the results.
ASHRAE Paper Summertime Overheating in Multi-Residential Buildings
October 2016. Many older multi-residential buildings in Toronto suffer from overheating in the summer. TAF’s Ekaterina Tzekova, Bryan Purcell and others examine the issue based on the Indoor Environment Quality monitoring and resident survey under the TAF TowerWise program. The paper was prepared for the 13th International Conference on Thermal Performance of the Exterior Envelopes […]
Geo Outlook Magazine TAF Article Heat Pumps
June 2016. In order to reach Ontario’s climate targets, we need to drastically reduce emissions from heating and cooling our buildings. This is were heat pumps come in. This technology, relatively new in Canada but widespread in Europe, has the potential to do just that, TAF’s Heat Pump Researcher Devon Calder writes in his guest […]
