Thank you very much for the question.
There was indeed $1 billion allocated in Budget 2009 under the economic action plan for the clean energy fund. Perhaps I could just give you a quick update on the status of that fund. We have announced three carbon capture storage projects to date. All have been co-funded by the Province of Alberta. The investment from the federal government for those three projects was $466 million.
We've also announced 19 successful proposals from all regions of Canada for demonstration projects of renewable and alternative energy technologies, for a total clean energy fund commitment of $146 million.
Combined, these 23 projects will achieve co-funding leverage from the private sector and the provinces of approximately $3.6 billion and will lead to greenhouse gas reductions of close to six million tonnes per year by 2015.
As the minister mentioned earlier today, there was a decision to reallocate $205 million from the clean energy fund to the ecoEnergy retrofit. The reason for that is the enormous take-up of the retrofit program by Canadians who are interested in improving the efficiency of their own homes. It's one of the most popular programs under the economic action plan. It's one that has a significant multiplier when it comes to jobs and investment. So there was a decision made to reallocate from the clean energy fund to the retrofit fund.