MANITOBA HYDRO & ENERGY STAR Qualified Windows

• Who are we?

• Current Market

• ENERGY STAR for Windows – Promotional Campaign

• What’s Next?

AGENDA

• Manitoba Hydro is the province's major energy utility.

• We serve 505 883 electric customers and 253 631 gas

customers

• Capital assets-in-service exceed $10 billion, making us one of the largest energy and natural gas utilities in Canada.

MANITOBA HYDRO

• Manitoba Hydro and energy efficiency through Demand Side Management

• Manitoba Hydro’s POWER SMART strategy

• Power Smart targets for 2018• 842 megawatts of electricity capacity and 2,637 gigawatt-hours per

year

• 106 million cubic metres of natural gas savings, equivalent to removing 45,000 vehicles off the road.

MANITOBA HYDRO

• Current Market

• Home Comfort and Energy Savings

• Power Smart Residential Loan

– Leveraging Partnerships

MANITOBA HYDRO Power Smart

• Promote and Educate:

Trade allies

Homeowners

• ENERGY STAR Windows Promotion – leveraging the strength of the window manufacturing industry in Manitoba.

ENERGY STAR Qualified Windows

• Addressing market Transformation:

• Availability

• Awareness

• Accessibility

• Affordability

• Acceptability

ENERGY STAR qualified Windows

• September 01/05 to December 31/05:

• Demand for ENERGY STAR rated windows increased by 21%

• Suppliers handling ENERGY STAR rated windows benefited from an increase in sales, 46% increase in revenue.

• Customers reached through both paid and unpaid media was at full saturation, 420,000 residential customers.

RESULTS

• Supplier attendance for the workshops, 230 or 77% of the target market.

• Five Manitoba based window manufactures motivated to begin the steps necessary to achieve the ENERGY STAR rating.

• The demand for the triple pane technology increased 6.27%, with the corresponding drop in dual pane.

RESULTS

• Annual energy savings over the promotional period, estimated at 195,000 kWh and 129,000 cu.m of natural gas with a reduction of 410 tonne of CO2 emissions.

• Seventy Five window suppliers were actively promoting the promotion with POP display materials, including all Big-box retail outlets.

RESULTS

QUESTIONS?

Contact Information

• Tim Johnson

• 204 474-3602

• tjohnson@hydro.mb.ca