City Council approved the implementation of an LED lighting retrofit and redesign conversion project for 32 facilities that represent the Corporation’s highest electricity consumers. The project will be implemented in three (3) phases at a net City cost of $3.45 million resulting in a reduction of electricity consumption by 3.8 million kWh and realizing operational savings of $550,000 annually.
Phase 1 (8 buildings) of the retrofit program is near completion (late Summer 2020) and will result in consumption reduction of approximately 1.8 million kWh and $260,000 annually in operational savings. Greenhouse gas emissions will be reduced by 54 tonnes.
At the time of writing this report the tender package for Phase 2 (11 buildings) was being issued with an anticipated start date of October 2020. This phase will reduce consumption by 1.5 million kWh and generate annual savings of $220,000. Greenhouse gas emissions will be reduced by 45 tonnes.
The final Phase 3 (12 buildings) will commence in the spring of 2021 with a projected completion date of fall 2021. This last phase will reduce consumption by 0.8 million kWh and $118,000 in operational savings. Greenhouse gas emissions will be reduced by 24 tonnes.
The total greenhouse gas emissions reduction of the LED Lighting Conversion Project is 123 tonnes; the equivalent of powering 357 homes for a year or removing 305 passenger vehicles from Canadian roads.
E - Embedded Energy Manager, saveONenergy Process and Systems Initiative
The Energy Initiatives division has hired two full time dedicated staff to assist with the multitude of energy related projects that are currently being developed and implemented across the City’s building portfolio. These positions were initially hired through the IESO’s saveONenergy Process and Systems Initiative in May 2013 and August 2016 respectively and hold the title of Supervisor of Energy Contracts.
Currently under the new interim framework the IESO is directly managing the program and will reimburse the City of Windsor up to a maximum of $150,000 annually for one position only, based on verification of 3,750 megawatt-hours (MWh) of electricity consumption savings. Since participating in the Embedded Energy Manager program the City has received approximately $650,000 in salary reimbursement payments.
F - Additional Energy Reduction Measures
1. WFCU LED Lighting and Ice Plant Upgrade
An LED Lighting Retrofit & Re-design was implemented in 2015/2016 that included the three community rinks, the main spectator bowl and the associated lighted advertising panels. The controls to both ice plants were also upgraded during this period. Total electricity savings are 960,000 kWh annually as well as a reduction of