Ontario to offer financing for energy

Consumers will get an extra incentive to do energy efficient renovations on canada goose outlet reviews their homes under a canada goose sale uk new conservation program in Ontario’s latest long term energy plan, the Star has learned.

Upfront financing canada goose clothing uk will be provided, with homeowners paying it back over time on their utility bills, increasing the value of their properties while helping to cut pollution and save energy, said sources familiar with the plan to be unveiled Monday by Energy Minister Bob Chiarelli.

An energy auditor performs a test for air leakage in a home. Ontarians will be offered upfront financing for energy efficient renovations, such as replacing windows and adding insulation, under a new program to be unveiled by the provincial government. (Carlos Osorio / Toronto Star file photo)

The “on bill financing,” which will begin in 2015, could include retrofits such as new windows or increasing attic insulation.

Chiarelli’s energy blueprint for the next two decades comes as the minority Liberal government is under fire for rising electricity prices, with an canada goose outlet toronto location election expected as early as next spring meaning the financing plan would become part of Premier Kathleen Wynne’s buy canada goose uk campaign platform.

“When they’re curbing their energy use and their bill still goes canada goose outlet hong kong up, they’re starting to question it,” MacLeod (Nepean Carleton) told reporters in a conference call Friday.

Full details on the renovation payback such as how much money has been earmarked and the fee for financing are slated for Finance canada goose outlet buffalo Minister Charles Sousa’s spring budget, sources said.

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“The average residential consumer will pay less than forecast in 2010, but they will still pay more than now,” one source acknowledged, referring to the last long term plan three years ago that warned electricity bills would double by 2030 thanks to nuclear expansion and more renewable power.

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“What we canada goose outlet in chicago are doing is taking very significant steps to allow people to better control their consumption and other factors that allow them to impact on their rates,” he told reporters.

“There is no government that’s going to commit, or be able to honour a commitment, to reduce rates from where they are now,” he added in a shot at rival parties in the legislature.

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Critics said that was a blow to consumers who save tasks such as laundry and running the dishwasher for evenings and weekends.

Opposition parties have raised suspicion that the new energy plan will cheap canada goose be more spin than substance given the growing likelihood of a spring vote if the Sousa budget goes down to defeat.

“It’s a very political document. It’s a sales document,” predicted New Democrat energy critic Peter Tabuns (Toronto Danforth).

uk canada goose Tabuns said the NDP has long favoured more grant and loan programs to help homeowners and businesses improve their energy efficiency because “many can’t afford to replace their windows or insulate their attics.” uk canada goose

Chiarelli’s plan comes a day before Wynne is scheduled to testify again Tuesday before a legislative committee investigating the $1.1 billion scandal over natural gas fired power plants cancelled before the 2011 election.

Updated from the last energy blueprint in 2010, Chiarelli’s plan turns its back on the tradition of governments sketching out grand schemes for vast new energy projects be they renewable power, nuclear plants or mammoth hydro dams to focus instead on conservation and curbing demand.

Canada Goose sale That’s simply yielding to reality, since the demand for electricity in Ontario has fallen 10 per cent and stagnated since hitting a high in 2005. There’s no urgency to build new power plants in Ontario, as the province frequently has to ship surplus power to neighbouring states and provinces often at a loss. Canada Goose sale

The energy surplus, combined with the daunting and uncertain cost of building big new https://www.buycanadagoose.biz power plants, prompted the Liberals to turn down a proposal by Ontario Power Generation to construct two new units at the Darlington nuclear station earlier this fall.

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