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Heat pumps – cutting costs while cooling tenants

7/2022 - THE GLOBE AND MAIL - The low-carbon HVAC system provides both heating and cooling to an apartment and uses a maximum of a third of the electricity of baseboards heaters.

Breaking ground on a climate-friendly way to heat and cool homes in Toronto

7/2022 - TVO -“It’s really critical that we get all new developments to net-zero or near-zero as soon as possible. Low-carbon district energy is one way to address that challenge,” says Bryan Purcell.

Retrofit of TCHC building will yield climate, affordability and community benefits

6/2022 - TAF and Toronto Community Housing Corporation (TCHC) kicked off a deep, multi-measure retrofit of 840 Eglinton Avenue West.

TAF News: June 2022

6/2022 - Lessons from a heat pump retrofit and new grant funding

Methane Emissions Far Exceed Reported Levels as Ontario Plans Gas Ramp-Up

5/2022 - THE ENERGY MIX - Almost none of the methane leakage that happens during extraction and transmission is counted in our inventories or any other reporting.

TAF News: May 2022

5/2022 - New report: Fugitive methane emissions in Ontario is double the reported rate

For 2 years, climate resources shifted in COVID-19. Now, cities like Hamilton look to get on track

4/2022 - CBC HAMILTON - In Hamilton, groups like EH and Hamilton 350 say that over the past two years, the city has fallen behind on its plans to combat climate change — and it's time to get on track

TAF News: April 2022

4/2022 - Urban climate action highlights from Budget 2022

Forty-two electric vehicle charging stations to be built across Durham using federal funds

4/2022 - DURHAM RADIO NEWS - Durham Region will be partnering with TAF to promote EV charging. TAF will be offering rebates of up to 50 per cent for municipalities, parking authorities, non-profits, residential buildings and other groups to construct new charging stations.

If you rely only on public chargers, it’s tough to own an EV

3/2022 - THE GLOBE AND MAIL - TAF has recently received $2-million from Natural Resources Canada to install about 300 chargers, and expects a big chunk of that will go toward installing chargers on residential streets as well as near multi-unit residential buildings (MURBs).

New federal Clean Fuel Standard headed in the wrong direction

3/2022 - NATIONAL OBSERVER - If Canada's Clean Fuel Standard is to deliver climate and cleantech investment successes, it needs a higher ambition and tighter rules.

Ontario’s plan to sell ‘clean energy’ credits doesn’t wash with environmental groups

3/2022 - CBC- Bryan Purcell says the government's clean energy credits proposal has fundamental flaws that undermine any environmental benefit.

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