Green Energy Act and Condo Retrofit

April, 2009 By Chris Chopik Imagine the south facing façade of every condo tower filled with solar panels. Panels poised to harvest the power of the sun to provide the electricity grid with enough energy to completely offset the cost of air conditioning the entire tower. Not only is it possible, but it makes financial sense. While the time to market will be mired by the Condominium Act and supply chain development lag, there may be opportunities to take tower renewal to new platitudes of energy performance. The revised feed-in-tariff makes solar and wind energy production secure and profitable investments. Feed-in-tariff refers to a guaranteed purchase price for energy produced from wind, solar and biofuels. The FIT program creates a strong and guaranteed revenue stream which allows investors and community stakeholders to partner to create renewable power generation. The price for solar energy in Ontario starts at an amazing $ 0.80 per Kilowatt hour. To give a residential example, according to Ontario Solar Manufacturer, Arise Technologies, investment in a three Kilowatt Solar array will yield a guaranteed return estimated at nine per cent. That is fair money on a technology which has a 20-25 year warranty, a much longer life expectancy and no mechanical parts to fail. http://www.condobusiness.ca/GreenEnergyAct.aspx

Getting Started with TowerWise

The Toronto Atmospheric Fund has developed the TowerWise program to help Condo Boards to make better decisions about conserving capital resources by creating efficiencies. This in turn can free capital for condo building improvements, which increases value, and savings can relate to lower condo fees which makes your building more desirable to the marketplace.

Check this video out as a start point to engaging your fellow residents in greening your condo. Powerful programming can make a big difference in helping you improve the value of your real estate.



Get engaged with TowerWise.ca and get started.

Cutting Your Condo's Energy Cost

The Toronto Atmospheric Fund has developed the TowerWise program to help Condo Boards to make better decisions about conserving capital resources by creating efficiencies. Energy efficiency retrofits can deliver real cost savings that relate to improved condo real estate value. Get engaged with TowerWise.ca and get started.

Check this video out understand the role of energy efficiency greening your condo. Powerful programming can make a big difference in helping you improve the value of your real estate.

Communicating the Value of your Building Retrofits

The Toronto Atmospheric Fund has developed the TowerWise program to help Condo Boards to make better decisions about conserving capital resources by creating efficiencies. Get engaged with TowerWise.ca and get started. This is an invaluable program filled with resources to help you with the task of measuring where you are and prioritizing investments that yield.

Check this video out as a start point to engaging your fellow residents in greening your condo. Powerful programming can make a big difference in helping you improve the value of your real estate.