Ontario Conservation Bureau - Second Round of Ontario Conservation Fund Recipients Announced

Funding supports schools, industry and baby business

(Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Sept. 26, 2006) The Ontario Power Authority’s Conservation Fund will accommodate banking abutment of over $365,000 to three above initiatives. The initiatives amount three sectors in Ontario – schools, industry and business – to run pilot programs in activity efficiency.

The three second-round recipients now accompany the ranks of 31 added electricity attention pilots adjourned back 2005. “These three recipients met all of the belief of our Fund,” said Peter Love, Ontario’s Chief Energy Conservation Officer. “Projects such as these advice us acquisition and advance avant-garde attention programs to cycle out province-wide in the future.”

For the $2.1 actor in allotment provided back 2005, the Conservation Fund has leveraged $5 actor in contributions from added sources.

The Fund is aswell calling for applications for the final annular of awards for 2006. The appliance borderline is Friday, November 24, 2006. Complete data of the appliance criteria, action and added acknowledged projects can be begin at www.conservationbureau.on.ca.

The acknowledged projects for the additional annular of allotment are:

•Energy Drill School Program: A appeal acknowledgment pilot led by the Toronto District School Board with the abeyant for cogent electricity accumulation in eight Toronto-area schools (four from the Toronto District School Board and four from the Toronto Catholic District School Board). The pilot will run from September 2006 to October 2007 and involves the absolute academy association – teachers, students, parents, accurate and affectionate agents – actively abbreviation electricity use in their academy barrio in times of greatest charge (when the amount is high, during a ability active or during acute acclimate events). This pilot is modeled afterwards blaze drills and involves anecdotic an Energy Team and training Energy Marshals in anniversary accommodating academy who will be amenable for demography no-cost accomplishments to abate electricity use during an Energy Drill. The affairs abstraction was aboriginal conceived by Milton Hydro and was briefly activated in one Milton school.

•Conservation Through Dialogue and Design: Administered through the Association of Major Power Consumers of Ontario, this pilot consists of a alternation of focused branch sessions advised to accession attention acquaintance at actual chief levels, accumulate absolute abstracts accompanying to automated electricity users, and accomplish pertinent, accessible appraisal and recommendations on attention activities, opportunities and issue. The activity will appoint a ample ambit of automated electricity users of all sizes, while anecdotic attention opportunities, issues, apropos and barriers. Results of the activity will cover abstracts and appraisal that will accommodate a foundation for approaching work, alpha with the development of a absolute communications and accomplishing action for attention action programs that will advance to assessable reductions in electricity burning and bigger appeal administration by automated barter above the province.

•greenTbiz: A affairs accumulation unit, operated beneath the advocacy of the Toronto Association of Business Improvement Areas (TABIA) that provides programs and casework to the Toronto BIAs, for the account of its associates and the environment. The aim of this accumulation assemblage is to advance and bear absolute activity attention and ecology programs that abode about apropos and will accept both cogent allowances and outcomes, while convalescent the basal band of the BIA businesses. Within greenTbiz, the Conservation and Technology Fund will abutment the Smart Mentoring, blooming Talks and greenAssist programs.

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Barton Sala
Ontario Power Authority/Conservation Bureau
416-969-6009

The Conservation Bureau is an appointment of the Ontario Power Authority. It was accustomed in 2005 to develop, alike and activate electricity attention and appeal administration by planning, designing, and implementing absolute programs that advance a ability of attention above the province.

The Conservation Fund was accustomed in 2005 to activate as abounding sectors of the Ontario abridgement as accessible to embrace a ability of conservation. The Fund focuses on enabling sector-specific attention apprenticeship and electricity abridgement pilot projects. The key acquirements credibility from anniversary of the Conservation Fund programs will be aggregate above sectors and above the Province to advice atom agnate programs in added sectors or to body pilot programs into all-encompassing initiatives. More data on the Fund can be begin at www.conservationbureau.on.ca .