By rdnewsNOW staff

Energy Efficient

Town of Penhold completes green energy initiative

Jul 27, 2020 | 10:55 AM

Officials with the Town of Penhold say a major green energy initiative in the community has now been complete.

The project saw a retrofit of over 1200 lights in the Penhold Regional Multiplex facility. Converting to LED lights is anticipated to see potential cost savings of roughly $25,816 per year and an energy savings of roughly 272,353 kWh per year. In addition, the retrofit is expected to decrease the Town’s Green House Gas emissions by roughly 172.9 Tonnes.

“The REC grant from the MCCAC has allowed us to replace all of our lights from traditional fluorescent lights to clean and bright LED lights,” says Multiplex Manager, Michael Szewczuk, in a press release. “All of our fixtures in the facility have been converted to LED and we can notice the difference in the amount of light given off and quality. It’s been a great project for Penhold.”

Mayor Mike Yargeau stated, “Taking advantage of new technologies and available grants has helped the Town of Penhold reduce operating costs. This project, combined with the installation of over 1000 solar panels will save the town thousands per year.”

According to Town officials, the Municipal Climate Change Action Centre (MCCAC) offered up a grant to municipalities for funding to implement energy efficient retrofits to a recreation centre through the Recreation Energy Conservation (REC) program.

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This program, through the MCCAC, was applied for in 2019 and allowed the initiative to start in January of 2020. The project was finally completed in July, 2020 with all of the lights in the Penhold Regional Multiplex upgraded to energy efficient LED lights.

The breakdown of the program cost is as follows:

• Total Cost: $395,393.32
• MCCAC rebate: $296,544.99
• Municipal Cost: $ 98,848.33