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Update 2016/11/30
Greening government

"GREENING FEDRAL GOV OPERATIONS
PSPC'S commitment to reducing government footprint

Public Service and Procurement Canada (PSPC), which serves federal departments and agencies as their central purchasing agent and real property manager, plays a central role in Greening Government. The department's Office of Greening government operations (OGGO) works with federal government institutions to reduce the footprint of government operations.

WaterToday contacted PSPC to find out what initiatives were in progress to ensure that it meets its commitment to the North American Leaders' Summit to increase the percentage of electricity purchased from clean power sources to 100% by 2025. In an email, Media Relations Advisor, Jean-François Létourneau sent us the following information:

With regards to clean power sources in assets owned by Public Service and Procurement Canada, the majority of our electrical consumption is already clean. Clean power means energy from non-GHG emitting sources, including hydro, nuclear, wind, solar, biomass, tidal, etc. Simply put, approximately 86% of the electricity the Department is projected to consume in 2025 will come from existing clean energy sources. We are projecting that we will need to account for 14% of our consumption with this commitment.

As stated in Budget 2016, the Government of Canada is committed to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and its environmental footprint by modernizing six central heating and cooling plants providing services to 85 buildings. GHG emissions reduction related to these buildings will be achieved primarily by conversion from the use of steam to hot water. The production and distribution of low temperature hot water requires much less energy and reduces GHG emissions compared to steam. These buildings will require upgrades to heating systems to permit the switch to hot water.

Here is a list of buildings in Ottawa that are slated for upgrades to cut greenhouse gas emissions:
  • Forensic Laboratory
  • National Police Service
  • Canadian Police Information Centre
  • Radiation Protection Building
  • Canada Post Campus:
    • 1. Sir A Campbell Annex B
    • 2. Sir A Campbell Annex C
    • 3. Cafeteria Ottawa
  • Laboratory Centre for Disease Control
  • Sir Frederick Banting Building
  • Jeanne-Mance Building #19
  • Standards Lab Building #4
  • Statistics Canada Building #3
  • Jean Talon Building #5
  • Rideau Committee Rooms (the old Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography)
  • 8 York St
  • 12 York St
  • Connaught Building
  • La Salle Academy
  • National Gallery of Canada
  • NCC Sussex Buildings (3 Buildings 537,539 &541 Sussex)
  • Nelms
  • Centre Block
  • East Block
  • Brouse-Slater Building
  • House of Norcano
  • Blackburn Building
  • Hope Chambers
  • Saxe Canada Life
  • Booth Building
  • Langevin Building
  • Dover Building
  • National Library & Public Archives
  • C.D. Howe Building
  • East Memorial
  • Saint Andrews Tower
  • Valour Building (the old La Promenade)
  • Justice Building
  • Fisher Building
  • Library of Parliament Staff ( the Bank of Nova Scotia)
  • National Press Building
  • Victoria Building
  • Bates Building
  • Birks Building
  • Confederation Building
  • National Research Council – 100 Sussex Drive
  • National Arts Centre
  • Marshall
  • Postal Station B
  • Supreme Court
  • Canada Four Corners
  • R.H. Coats Building #1
  • Brooke Claxton Building #9
  • Taxation Data Centre & Head Quarters
  • National Printing Bureau
  • Nicholson Building RCMP HQ & Trailers
  • Sir Charles Tupper Building
  • Major-General G.R. Pearkes Building (DND HQ)
  • Lester B. Pearson Building
  • West Memorial
  • 1500 Bronson ( the old Drake Building)
  • Personnel Records Building #18
  • DND Data Centre Ottawa Building #16
  • Occupational Health Unit
  • Sir Leonard Tilley Building & Annex
  • GOC Conference Centre
  • West Block
  • Wellington Building
  • Global Center for Pluralism ( the old National War Museum)
  • James Flaherty Building (90 Elgin/Lorne)
  • Sir John A MacDonald (the old Bank of Montreal)
  • Bank of Canada
  • Health Protection Building #7
  • General Records Centre Building #15
  • Animal Breeding Building
  • Finance Building #2
  • Finance Annex Building #14
  • Environmental Health Centre
  • Insurance Building
  • RA Centre
  • Shaw Centre
  • U.S. Embassy
  • Rideau Falls Lab F
  • ederal Court Annex
  • 35 George Street

Other commitments to cut GHG emissions within the Ottawa region:

PSPC is committed to reducing its GHG emissions through a series of modernization projects in support of its Federal Sustainable Development Strategy. The Public Services and Procurement Canada Smart Buildings Initiative is a way to make Government of Canada buildings more energy efficient. It involves monitoring and controlling the mechanical, heating, cooling and lighting systems in buildings so they use less energy and work more efficiently. Most buildings have digital systems that control their mechanical and electrical equipment. Smart Buildings is a system that collects raw data from that equipment and analyzes it as it comes in. The Smart Buildings Initiative involves implementing this system in federal buildings.

PSPC has conducted pilot projects, in collaboration with the National Research Council as part of the Program of Energy Research and Development, to evaluate the potential of Smart Building systems.

In fact, PSPC successfully completed the implementation of Smart Buildings pilot projects in four buildings in the National Capital Area (Connaught, R.H. Coats, Health Protection and the Main Statistics Canada buildings). These projects have seen energy savings of up to 16%, which translates into savings of approximately $400,000 annually to tax payers.

These pilot projects allowed the Department to determine that the market was mature in offering these services. PSPC has recently posted a Request for Standing Offer for these services.

Through the Smart Buildings Initiative, the Government is improving how it manages the energy performance of federal buildings. This will result in a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and lower energy costs. Since 2015, energy saved by smart buildings is equivalent to over 600 vehicles taken off the road and over 2850 acres of forests saved. In 2016-17, it is expected that Smart Buildings will be implemented in an additional 10 buildings in the National Capital Area. We are collaborating and sharing information with the City of Ottawa and the Ottawa Centre EcoDistrict to achieve our common objective to reduce GHG emissions in the National Capital Region. More information on the Smart Buildings Initiative is available on PSPC's website.

By increasing its purchase of clean, emissions-free power such as hydro, wind, solar, nuclear, tidal, and biomass for the buildings it owns, PSPC will achieve its commitment to increase the percentage of electricity derived from clean energy sources to 100 percent by 2025

For example, within the Parliamentary Precinct, projects are being designed and constructed in an environmentally responsible manner to improve the environmental performance of its buildings. As part of the renovations to the Wellington Building, 40 solar panels were installed on the roof to pre-heat hot water for the building to reduce the energy consumption. More information on the green initiatives implemented for this and other PPB projects.

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