Sandra Dosen

TAF Newsletter: January 2025

1/2025 - This edition includes our green standards myth-buster, a transformational win for energy efficiency that will deliver billions in benefits and savings, insights on what’s next for EV charging, a new toolkit on embodied carbon, and more.

TAF Newsletter: December 2024

12/2024 - This edition includes our insights on Ontario’s energy planning, a new challenge of municipal authority, how Richmond Hill is rewarding green development, and a free app for measuring embodied carbon in construction.

TAF Newsletter: November 2024

11/2024 - This edition includes the 2023 GTHA Carbon Emissions Inventory launch, building greener faster with prefabricated overcladding, shaping a low-carbon energy future for Ontario, and a new job opportunity with TAF.

TAF Newsletter: October 2024

10/2024 - This edition includes extreme heat bylaw considerations, climate action progress in Hamilton, Toronto's economic development plan, a new app to measure embodied carbon in GTHA construction, and engagement on low-carbon district energy in Ontario.

TAF Newsletter: September 2024

9/2024 - This edition includes our team’s first geothermal heat pump project (with overcladding to boot!), our perspective on investing in demand-side management, energy policy reversal on gas plants, advancing building performance standards, and a new job opening at TAF.

New electric vehicle study can help EV owners save some money

9/2024 - CITYNEWS - Director of Clean Energy, Aakash Harpalani, explains the grid impacts of EV charging and how EV drivers can get involved in impact study.

Port Lands gas plant emissions seven times too high for new development at mouth of Don River

9/2024 - TORONTO STAR - Bryan Purcell, VP of Policy and Programs, comments on a new report that reveals Port Lands gas plant emissions are too high for new development on Toronto's eastern waterfront: “This shows that the vision for the future of Toronto’s waterfront is fundamentally at odds with the long-term operation of the Port Lands gas plant."

Keeping It Cool

9/2024 - NRU - VP of Programs and Policy, Bryan Purcell, discusses TAF's latest policy brief on extreme heat bylaws and emphasizes the importance of a phased-in approach that considers the implications for vulnerable populations, building owners, and municipal climate targets.

Large-scale smart EV charging pilot launched in Toronto-Hamilton area

9/2024 - ELECTRIC AUTONOMY - Aakash Harpalani, Director of Clean Energy, discusses TAF's smart grid pilot assessing the impact of 2,000 EV charging participants in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area.

TAF Newsletter: August 2024

8/2024 - This edition includes policy options for cities exploring maximum temperature bylaws, developer incentives for low-carbon construction, our 2025 federal budget recommendations, future-proofing Ontario’s grid with clean energy, and new opportunities at TAF.

TAF Newsletter: July 2024

7/2024 - This edition includes three launches - a deep retrofit project in North York, the latest Ontario emissions factors, and a building sector request for proposals - plus our final grants intake for 2024 and new team members.

TAF Newsletter: June 2024

6/2024 - This edition includes our Ontario electricity emissions factors webinar, a climate call-to-action from healthcare leaders, green building success in Caledon, a new infrastructure investment, retrofits, and more.