Government Operations committee  It's been a pleasure. Thank you.

Government Operations committee  It's been a pleasure. Thank you very much. The technology worked very well.

Government Operations committee  I just wanted to make a comment about the FBI program. We have attempted to make the FBI program work. There's rebate money. There's grant money, of course, that comes with doing the program. But there comes a significant analysis that is required, and the cost of doing that usua

Government Operations committee  To repeat the comment about keeping it simple and educating the departments, the more troops we have on the street, the more we're going to get done in a short timeframe.

Government Operations committee  I would add that we should just keep it simple. It has to be simple. I would suggest that we use an education model whereby the government puts together a program to go around to every department, to every complex, to provide a level of education as to what can be done. Then you

Government Operations committee  I think we've come up with conservative numbers that are used in Alberta, which are coal-based in terms of the CO2 emissions. What we've done is to take a simple look at how much energy can be taken out of the lighting system from a building. The average would be one watt per squ

Government Operations committee  I think it's a great idea, because we need to have some additional incentive for building owners. Out west a lot of the very large buildings are owned by insurance companies, and not just one insurance company but several. For example, three or four insurance companies will own

Government Operations committee  I'm not familiar with internal projects. I know that the ones that have been offered through [Technical difficulty--Editor] have simply been incentives, not in terms of money but just incentives for ideas to pursue hiring consultants to do an evaluation and then proceed with what

Government Operations committee  No, I would certainly say there is nothing that I'm aware of other than contracts issued to consulting engineers to evaluate a facility or a number of facilities.

Government Operations committee  It's usually done on a project-by-project basis when there is an interest on the part of the department to proceed with some kind of evaluation. Recognizing that they have some money to pay us, then we will take a look at a particular facility. We have a mechanical engineering s

Government Operations committee  If I could add to that, one of the points regarding building codes is that they are really safety codes. The energy efficiency standards are separate from that. One needs to think about how low one can go and what lighting values are acceptable, by reviewing the standards and est

Government Operations committee  There's absolutely no question that doing energy efficiency projects will increase employment. Just as an example, the project in Prince Edward Island was about a $150,000 lighting retrofit and 50% of that would have been labour. Of course, the luminaires had to be constructed, s

Government Operations committee  Certainly.

Government Operations committee  Thank you very much. First of all, my name is Wayne Rogers. I'm an electrical engineer with both Luminescence and ReLumen Engineering, companies that have specialized in energy efficiency and energy-efficient lighting since 1987. Our focus has primarily been lighting because it

Government Operations committee  Thank you. I'm glad to be here.