Customer testimonials

Municipalité

• Project: Rebuilding municipal aquatic facilities – Complexe sportif Desjardins

• Financial assistance: $24,447.60 to implement energy efficiency measures

• Program: Simplified Option – Efficient Solutions Program

Transport, distribution, logistics

• Project: Optimizing electricity use during peak demand events to lower the electricity bill

• Credit on electricity bills: Close to $500,000

• Offer: Demand Response Option

Plastics processing

• Project: Equipment modernization – Installing three variable-speed and two fixed-speed compressors and air dryers

• Financial assistance: $315,477 

• Program: Customized Option – Efficient Solutions Program

Commercial real estate

• Project: Optimizing electricity use during peak demand events by installing generators and an automated on/off device

• Credit on electricity bills: Close to $70,000 over a single winter

• Offer: Demand Response Option

Food processing

• Project: Equipment modernization – Installing a heat pump and replacing the chlorofluorocarbon (Freon) refrigeration system with a carbon dioxide (CO₂) system

• Financial assistance: $300,000

• Program: Efficient Solutions

Agri-food industry

• Project: Designing and integrating a new, water-cooled light-emitting diode (LED) light technology into a climate-control system

• Program: Efficient Solutions and Efficient Farming Products

Pulp and paper

• Project: Equipment modernization – Replacing the ventilation shutters on four paper machines with variable frequency drives (VFDs)

• Financial assistance: $900,000

• Program: Efficient Solutions

Sports and recreation

• Project: Thermal power plant refurbishment – Updating the cooling system and replacing fluorescent lighting with LED fixtures

• Financial assistance: Close to $900,000

• Program: Efficient Solutions

Yeast production

• Project: Equipment modernization – Replacing two turbo blowers with more powerful equipment that’s also less costly to maintain

• Financial assistance: Close to $300,000

• Program: Efficient Solutions

Food processing

• Project: Equipment modernization – Replacing obsolete equipment, expanding factory space and installing more efficient heat pumps

• Financial assistance: Close to $10 million

• Program: Efficient Solutions

Recreation and outdoor activities

• Project: Optimizing electricity use during peak demand events to lower the electricity bill (halting snowmaking operations and reducing the lit ski areas)

• Financial assistance: Close to $800,000

• Program: Demand Response Option