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Yield a quick payback and ongoing operational savings with this program when you evaluate and implement retrocommissioning strategies that increase the efficiency of your chilled water plant.
Incentives are available for:
• Hiring an expert to analyze the chilled water system and make recommendations for increasing its energy efficiency
• Buying and installing metering equipment
• Implementing the recommended upgrades
Key Benefits
• Determine the actual energy consumption and costs of operating the chillers, pumps and towers in your chilled water system
• Evaluate the energy and economic impact of system operating scenarios and of upgrading your ancillary equipment
• Align and optimize operating strategies
• Evaluate investment risk by assessing the value of recommended energy efficiency measures in advance, and
• Choose to install only those energy efficient upgrades that best suit your long-term energy management plan
There are four stages of participation: 
Phase 1: Scoping Study
Phase 2: Investigation
Phase 3: Implementation
Phase 4: Hand-off/Completion
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Participation
A qualified Commissioning Agent – or industry expert – is retained to create a Scoping Study Commissioning Report. This report provides a snapshot of your chilled water system and its performance. The Commissioning Agent is hired on a contractual basis only and is not an employee.
The Commissioning Agent must have either:
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• A commissioning certificate from the Association of Energy Engineers, the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, or the Building Commissioning Association, or
• Experience as a project manager of a chilled water system commissioning project to meet either LEED or Canadian Standards Association Z318 (Commissioning of Health Care Facilities) standards, or under the Ontario Power Authority’s Chilled Water Plant Ongoing Commissioning Pilot as supported by two letters of reference from the owner or lessor of the chilled water plant. |
The Scoping Study Phase Commissioning Report will:
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• Describe your chilled water system including estimated cooling loads, electricity consumption and operating hours
• Propose and detail several energy-efficiency measures for saving electricity while operating your chilled water system
• Show the estimated electricity consumption and peak demand savings that each measure would produce over the first year
• Identify the existing metering points and additional metering required for the Investigation Phase
• Include the plan for measuring actual electricity consumption and demand savings anticipated in the Investigation Phase. |
Incentive
The lesser of:
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• The amount actually owing and paid to the Commissioning Agent for preparing the Scoping Study Phase Commissioning Report, excluding applicable taxes, or
• $2,500 less any other financial incentives provided by the province of Ontario |
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Participation
A Data Acquisition System is installed and/or enhanced with metering points to log data from the chilled water system. The Commissioning Agent analyzes the results and produces an Investigation Phase Commissioning Report which will include recommendations for energy-efficiency measures for reducing electricity consumption and a plan to conduct measurement and verification of the recommended measures.
Incentive
Calculated at:
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• $18 per ton of chilled water system cooling, up to a maximum of 75 per cent of the amount actually owing and paid to the Commissioning Agent for preparing the Investigation Phase Commissioning Report, excluding applicable taxes, plus • $6 per ton of chilled water system cooling, up to a maximum of 75 per cent of the eligible costs of acquiring and installing the Data Acquisition System up to a maximum of $30,000, less any other financial incentives provided by the province of Ontario | | + Back to top
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Participation
Following the completion and approval at the Investigation Phase, the participant commits to implementing all measures with a payback period of less than two years. Measures with a payback period of greater than two years may be eligible for further incentives on implementation. The Commissioning Agent monitors and analyzes the results, which forms the basis of the Agent’s Implementation Phase Commissioning Report.
Incentive
The lessor of:
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• The amount actually owing and paid to the Commissioning Agent for preparing the Implementation Phase Commissioning Report, excluding applicable taxes, and
• $5,000 less any other financial incentives provided by the province of Ontario, |
Plus for major measures with a project pay back of more than two years, the lesser of:
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• The greater of Implementation Phase Energy Savings x $0.10/kWh and Implementation Phase Demand Savings x $800/kW
• 50 per cent of the eligible costs of purchasing and installing the major measures, excluding applicable taxes, and • The amount calculated for X where X = A (eligible costs for major measures) – B (any other financial incentives provided by the province of Ontario) – 2C (reductions in annualized energy, operating and maintenance costs). | | + Back to top
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Participation
On successful completion and approval at the Implementation Phase, a Hand-off/Completion Phase Commissioning Report is produced by the Commissioning Agent. The report will contain a description of the training and documentation provided to the chilled water system operators as well as an analysis of the actual yearly energy consumption and savings for your chilled water system.
Incentive
The lesser of:
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• The amount actually owing and paid to the Commissioning Agent for preparing the Hand-off/Completion Phase Commissioning Report, excluding applicable taxes, and
• $2,500 less any other financial incentives provided by the province of Ontario |
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Eligibility
Must be a non-residential or non-industrial General Service customer, with more than 50 kW annual electricity demand, that owns or leases a chilled water system. The system must be more than three years old, cool an area greater than 50,000 sq. ft. and the system must not have been involved in any previous Ontario Power Authority (OPA) funding initiative.
Eligible costs which are reasonable and actually incurred to an arm’s length third-party, including:
• Equipment (including shipping, delivery and duties)
• Labour for installation
• Disposing, decommissioning or recycling any residual material
• Inspections required by law and regulations
• Required design, engineering and/or architecture, and
• Project management costs.
Getting Started
To learn more, contact us at cdm@torontohydro.com or 416.542.3388 |
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