Guelph, Ontario
Natural Resources Canada
Harold Albrecht, Member of Parliament for Kitchener–Conestoga (Ontario), on behalf of the Honourable Greg Rickford, Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources and Minister for the Federal Economic Development Initiative for Northern Ontario, participated today in a groundbreaking ceremony for the first of several homes to be built as part of Canada’s largest net-zero low-rise residential demonstration project.
Announced in May 2013 by Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Owens Corning Canada LP received $1.9 million through the Government of Canada’s ecoENERGY Innovation Initiative (ecoEII) for its project Integrating Renewables and Conservation Measures in a Net-Zero Energy Low-Rise Residential Subdivision. Under the project, the company will build 25 new homes that produce at least as much energy as they consume on an annual basis. The project will emphasize affordability and market acceptability in Canada, where very few demonstrations of this kind and size have been built to date.
Through ecoEII, the Government of Canada is providing $268 million over five years (2011–2016) to support research, development and demonstration projects that produce and use energy in a cleaner and more efficient manner that will create jobs, generate economic opportunities and help protect the environment.
Harold Albrecht
Member of Parliament for Kitchener–Conestoga (Ontario)
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