As a municipality, the Town of Huntsville is committed to reducing our climate change impacts by reducing greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) related to municipal operations including buildings, vehicles and waste.
Renewables
In 2022, the District of Muskoka installed and commissioned a 3-acre solar farm at the Golden Pheasant WTP. It is expected to cover 5% of the District’s total energy use through a net metering approach (see Golden Pheasant Solar Generation Net Metering Project for further details).
Solar panels
The Town of Huntsville makes green energy! We have been making electricity with solar panels on six Town-owned buildings. Through a contract with the Ontario Government, we sell the electricity back to the grid for a fixed price of $0.549 for every kill-a-watt (kW) of energy we make.
The six buildings that have 10kW solar panel systems are: Civic Centre, Huntsville Public Library, Madill Yard, Huntsville Fire Hall, Port Sydney Fire Hall, and Port Sydney Community Hall.
Home energy retrofits
In 2021, Clean Air Partnership received $175,000 from the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) Green Municipal Fund (GMF) for a feasibility study to develop locally-tailored home energy retrofit financing programs in partnership with the County of Dufferin, the City of London, the City of Barrie and the Town of Huntsville.
Home Efficiency Rebate Plus (HER+), is a collaborative rebate program from Enbridge Gas and Natural Resources Canada (NRCan). The program provides rebates towards eligible retrofits such as home insulation, windows and doors, heat pumps and renewable energy systems through the Government of Canada’s Greener Homes Grant.
Energy reporting
In February 2023, the Provincial Government introduced Ontario Regulation 25/23 (O.Reg. 25/23) – which supersedes the previous O.Reg. 397/11 and O.Reg.507/18 under the Electricity Act, 1998.
This regulation requires certain public agencies – Municipalities, Municipal Service Boards, School Boards, Post-Secondary Educational Institutions, and Hospitals – to report on their energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions annually. This also mandates that public agencies develop, and update every five (5) years, an Energy Conservation and Demand Management (CDM) Plan.
The intent of this regulation is to help the broader public sector (BPS) organizations better understand and report their energy consumption, help benchmark, encourage energy conservation and demand management activities within their organizations, and then ultimately make this information available to its public. (See Town of Huntsville Updated Energy Conservation and Demand Management Plan).
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Town of Huntsville
37 Main St. East
Huntsville, Ontario
P1H 1A1
Open Monday to Friday 8:30 – 4:30
Phone: 705-789-1751
Fax: 705-788-5153
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