Waterloo Community Energy Investment Strategy

About 87 of the waterloo region s energy expenditures or 1 8 billion leaves the community.

Waterloo community energy investment strategy.

Sergio patino manager at sodexo. Professor at university of waterloo editor in chief restoration ecology. 4 community energy investment strategy waterloo region canada s population is both growing and aging and there is an ever present concern related to public spending rising energy prices economic competitiveness as well as climate change and environmental protection. A initiate participation by the region of waterloo in the development of a community energy investment strategy for waterloo region in collaboration with local partners.

Building on existing land use plans. The region of waterloo in collaboration with the three cities and five local electric and natural gas utilities has developed a community energy investment strategy or ceis. Natural gas utilities serving waterloo region to develop a community energy investment strategy reference report pdl cpl 15 35 dated june 16 2015. Jan 2019 present 1 year 8 months.

C direct staff to submit the community energy investment strategy to the ontario ministry of energy to fulfill the requirements of the municipal energy program. Community energy investment strategy. In order to sustain a community s. The strategy and council report was approved by area municipalities and regional councils in february 2018.

University of waterloo a team of university of waterloo students took home the grand prize at the hydrogen education foundation s 2016 hydrogen student design contest. The region is following the ontario ministry of energy municipal energy plan program which supports development of energy planning at a community wide scale. Uwaterloo students won top prize for designing wind and solar generated hydrogen power to supply 10 percent of a community s daily peak energy needs. 1 8 billion dollars of that left our community buying 99 9 of the energy we use.

Community energy investment strategy. Community energy investment strategy. Our community energy investment strategy includes a summary of how much energy we use what we heard from the community as well as opportunities to keep more energy dollars in waterloo region. We spent 2 1 billion dollars on energy in 2014.

Our purpose is to improve and sustain waterloo region s economic competitiveness and quality of life through the coordination of targeted energy investments. This is a big hole in our local economic bucket.