Context - Energy Retrofit Program

Survey of the public record by CELOS: Toronto's energy retrofit program ( see also the working notes for the article). Written August 2007.

www.toronto.ca/environment/
initiatives/arena_retrofits.htm City of Toronto web site information on the rink/arena energy retrofit program.

articles from the dufferin park community newsletter, 2007, about saving city money.

Cinergy Project

Cinergy Plan Overview - from a letter to the Friends of Dufferin Grove Newsletter, 2005

A lay-person's guide (pdf, 6.6MB) to the City of Toronto's building energy retrofit program, to help regular citizens to navigate and understand the technical elements.

Excerpts from the contract the City signed with "Cinergy Solutions," also called "Vestar" or "Optimira"

Sample cases and data

Here is "forecasted energy savings" for Ted Reeve Arena chart, through a Freedom of information request order up-mo_2228, based on Appeal MA 050302-1

Arenas/rinks - Dufferin Park 12 Months Energy Avoidance Table (see also MS Word version), from city staff, 2008. Background Cinergy Concept Report for Dufferin (pdf).

Wallace Emerson Cinergy concept report and spreadsheet (pdf - see also excel version).

Jimmy Simpson Arena solar panels. See news release.

Reference material and data sets

from the City's Energy & Waste Management Office: An Arena Project (summary) case study (pdf) to show the arena/rinks energy retrofit results

Energy Efficiency Retrofits - List of buildings that were retrofitted, with baseline energy costs, from Jim Kamstra Manager, Energy & Waste Management. Extracted outdoor rink figures (and excel version).

Electricity use information for 5 parks 2005 - from Jim Kamstra (Energy and Waste Management): chart (pdf)

Rink baseline energy costs table (pdf) and chart (pdf).

Related folders

Cinergy Project Evaluation

See Cinergy Project Evaluation folder

With the set of documents collected to date through iterative requests, we attempt to forge the data into a more formal research structure: Case Study: The Cinergy Contract, with the intent of following up with complementary information requests to achieve the purposes of the research.

See Optimira savings report (Cinergy project) for first year.

Research Correspondence

See Cinergy Research Correspondence folder

Rinks 'energy retrofit' correspondence diary: letter exchange between CELOS and city staff, 2005-2007. See also page 2, page 4, and page 5.

Access to Information Requests

Freedom of information requests about the $10.3 million Arena/Rinks energy retrofits project

Followup Access to Information Request, January 2009.