• Healthcare is an energy…

• Healthcare is an energy-intensive sector with unique constraints due to patient risk considerations and resource limitations, but the healthcare workforce has a deep understanding of the intimate link between patient and community health and the environment. From this viewpoint, we support the Government of Ontario’s goal of ensuring clean, reliable and affordable energy.
• We support simplified delivery of energy efficiency programs, which ideally would encompass electricity, fuels, carbon and water. Single-window and LDC-supported programs are desirable enhancements for all consumer segments. Furthermore, the longer that energy programs persist in a given form, are informed by carbon reduction mandates, and are untethered from calendar-based deadlines, the better for business planning purposes.
• Although not mentioned directly in the framework proposal, better energy data is essential to the effort. Guiding principles should be: accessible, exportable, reliable, comprehensive.
• Programs need to be scalable. Bigger buildings and projects need bigger incentives to make the application effort worthwhile.