programs

Enerlife manages Greening Health Care, a collaborative program for hospitals launched in 2003. Hospitals work together to lower their energy costs, raise their environmental performance and contribute to the health and well-being of their communities. Members manage data, assess their performance and track savings using a powerful online system developed by Enerlife. We develop and deliver workshops and webinars at which members share knowledge and best practices to help them plan, implement and verify improvements.

The Mayors’ Megawatt Challenge program has been bringing together leading municipalities since 2003. Enerlife manages this program, in which members work to achieve exceptional levels of energy and environmental performance in municipal facilities. Participating municipalities benefit from benchmarking against comparable facilities across the sector, using the online system developed by Enerlife. They identify their savings potential and monitor improvements over time, have access to peer and industry expert networks through webinars and events, share tools and best practices, and achieve recognition for initiatives and energy performance improvements. In 2011, MMC introduced the Town Hall Challenge, which engaged cities and towns from eight provinces in identifying and recognizing some of the most energy efficient city and town halls in Canada.

Since 2008, the Sustainable Schools program has been researching and reporting on the energy efficiency and conservation potential in Ontario’s schools. Enerlife manages this initiative, using our performance-based conservation methodology to establish rational, site-specific energy targets for individual schools.

Top Energy Performing School Boards reports are released annually as part of the program. The reports rank the overall energy efficiency and savings potential of Ontario school boards, based on individual analysis of their schools and administration buildings. The data used in this analysis is part of the Energy use and greenhouse gas emissions for the Broader Public Sector dataset. The resulting knowledge helps school boards to maximize their energy, utility cost and emissions savings in their facilities. It is also intended for use by local distribution companies and gas utilities across Ontario to help meet their own conservation targets.

The City of Toronto’s Tower Renewal program encompasses several project areas, one of which focuses on sustainable energy, water and waste practices in Toronto’s concrete apartment towers. A program was developed by Tower Renewal Office to allow property managers to improve their efficiency levels with an incremental approach starting with preparing and planning and then increasing to leadership status. Enerlife and Tower Renewal work together to help building managers in the preparation stages through analyzing and reporting on the actual energy, water and waste use when benchmarked against other apartment buildings.