Existing Building Commissioning Grants
Up to $150,000 in Financial Incentives
The EBCx program offers financial incentives to commercial building owners to hire qualified commissioning providers to undertake building recommissioning at their facilities. The program is broken into three phases:
EBCx Phase 1: Investigation
Hire a commissioning provider to investigate your facility, prepare a report and draft a commissioning plan. Eligible participants will receive up to $0.06 per square foot of the building area, subject to a maximum of $50,000 per facility and/or 75% of the costs paid by the participant to the commissioning provider to undertake the investigation.
EBCx Phase 2: Implementation
Implement energy-efficiency measures identified in the commissioning plan and receive an incentive of $0.03 per kWh of confirmed energy savings, subject to a maximum of 30% of the facility’s annual electricity consumption (kWh) calculated using the baseline model or $50,000, whichever is lower.
EBCx Phase 3: Persistence
Receive training from your commissioning provider to maintain and monitor systems for one year and receive an incentive of $0.03 per kWh of persisting energy savings, subject to a maximum 30% of the facility’s annual electricity consumption (kWh) calculated using the baseline model or $50,000, whichever is lower. Savings are calculated and verified after the 12-month period.
EBCx Program Requirements
To qualify for EBCx incentives, you must be the owner, operator, or manager of a commercial or institutional building in Ontario and meet the following requirements.
Your facility/facilities must:
- have a minimum of 12 months of consecutive energy data.
- have consumed a minimum of 750,000 kWh per annum, not including energy consumed by industrial and manufacturing processes.
- have baseline models meeting the minimum standards outlined in the Measurement & Verification Guidelines which can be found at saveonenergy.ca.
- not have undertaken a commissioning exercise in the last two years.
- not be participating in a building accreditation system that requires EBCx as a pre-requisite.
- be connected to, or behind the meter of, an electricity customer connected to the IESO-controlled grid or a distribution system.
- Meet any other requirements outlined in the Measurement & Verification Guidelines which can be found at saveonenergy.ca.
Additionally, your project must include one of the following measures:
- occupant behavioural measures.
- set point and scheduling optimization.
- air and water balancing.
- other operational and maintenance changes.
- equipment repairs and minor replacements.
More information can be found at saveonenergy.ca.
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