Energy Efficiency and Conservation

TAF Submission Ontario Green Bank

1/2017 - January 2017. Government of Ontario. A longstanding objective of TAF has been to help with the creation of Canada’s first…

BEE-Cal Manual

1/2017 - May 2017. The Building Energy Efficiency Policy Calculator (or BEE-Cal for short) is an Excel-based tool that estimates the energy…

ASHRAE Paper Summertime Overheating in Multi-Residential Buildings

10/2016 - October 2016. Many older multi-residential buildings in Toronto suffer from overheating in the summer. TAF’s Ekaterina Tzekova, Bryan Purcell and…

Geo Outlook Magazine TAF Article Heat Pumps

6/2016 - June 2016. In order to reach Ontario’s climate targets, we need to drastically reduce emissions from heating and cooling our…

Ground Water Canada Magazine TAF Article Heat Pumps

4/2016 - April 2016. Buildings are a major source of Canada’s carbon emissions, especially in urban areas. An innovative heating and cooling…

ASHRAE Paper Pre-Retrofit Resident Comfort in Multi-Residential Buildings

2/2016 - February 2016. City of Toronto. Post-war multi-unit residential buildings in Toronto region often provide poor resident comfort due to overheating…

Pumping Energy Savings Market Characterization Study Web

1/2016 - February 2016. Government of Ontario. Heat pumps are a highly efficient heating and cooling technology that could significantly reduce carbon…

Joint Submission Federal Building Energy Efficiency Policy 2016

1/2016 - August 2016. Government of Canada. Requesting “a bold national action plan for energy efficient buildings”, the Canadian Energy Efficiency Alliance,…

Backgrounder Efficiency Capital Corporation

1/2015 - January 2015. This background document outlines the importance of Efficiency Capital Corporation (EC), a for-profit, energy efficiency-focused investment company which…

Low-Carbon Policy Priorities

1/2015 - March 2015. This TAF report identifies best practices in low-carbon policy advocacy as well as a selection of high impact…

Global Heat Pump Performance Review

1/2015 - April 2015. This report offers a global performance review for heat pump technology. It compares current research findings with an…

TAF Report EnergyXchange Urban Heat Exchange Systems

1/2015 - January 2015. This TAF report, with the support of the Donner Foundation, summarizes the results of several TAF-supported research, analysis…