Sources of Assistance

4.0 Government

Industrial Energy Innovators (IEI)
The IEI is a voluntary program to support the efforts of individual companies to improve energy efficiency and take action on climate change. NRCan registers the company as an Industrial Energy Innovator after the president or CEO of a company signs a letter of commitment to implement energy-saving measures in the organization. As part of its commitment, each participating company develops and implements an energy efficiency improvement target or goal-setting process and action plan, nominates an energy efficiency champion, and tracks and reports the results of its energy efficiency activities annually. In return, NRCan supports Industrial Energy Innovators with energy management workshops, seminars on new technologies and operating practices, sector-specific energy efficiency guidebooks (such as this one), an international technical information network, an employee awareness tool kit and energy management newsletters.

Canadian Industry Program for Energy Conservation (CIPEC)
CIPEC, which receives core funding and administrative support from NRCan’s Office of Energy Efficiency (OEE), provides the industry with a mechanism for obtaining the following types of assistance:

• Setting energy efficiency improvement targets for each sector and their sub-sectors;
• Publishing reports of accomplishments in energy efficiency improvements;
• Encouraging implementation of action plans at the sub-sector level;
• Promoting synergy between sectors through sectorial task forces;
• Giving energy managers a means by which to share expertise and contribute to the setting and meeting of energy efficiency goals for their sector and their companies; and
• Sector benchmarking.

Emerging Technologies Program (ETP)
The ETP helps industries identify and develop emerging energy-efficient technologies with significant potential to reduce energy consumption, limit emissions of greenhouse gases, improve manufacturing competitiveness and reduce the environmental impact of manufacturing processes. The ETP supports sector studies, technological assessments, field trials of technologies and research and development (R&D) activities. Contributions are repayable either from revenues or from cost savings realized from successful projects. The ETP also helps companies claim the 30% capital cost allowance on eligible energy-conserving and renewable-energy equipment.

Industry Energy Research and Development (IERD) Program
The IERD Program supports Canadian companies engaged in energy efficiency R&D. It focuses on promoting the development of products, processes or systems that will increase the efficiency of energy use by industry. IERD support generally takes the form of loans of up to 50% of the cost of the project, repayable when the product or process goes on the market.

Canada’s Energy Efficiency Awards
Canada is a world leader in many aspects of energy efficiency, and it’s important for us to celebrate and publicize our successes. That’s the goal of Canada’s Energy Efficiency Awards. Businesses, institutions, governments, communities and individuals – including students – are eligible. You can even nominate yourself!

Please visit the following Web site to learn about the awards and on how to get registered: /awards/home.cfm.

Information Sources

For further information on the above and other programs, contact these government sources. (Please note: Every effort has been made to obtain the most up-to-date contact information possible.)

Other links can be found in Section 4.7, “Internet” (page 113).