{"id":28633,"date":"2014-06-18T10:53:12","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T15:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=28633"},"modified":"2014-06-18T10:53:12","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T15:53:12","slug":"brock-receives-energy-efficiency-rebate-of-more-than-138000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2014\/06\/brock-receives-energy-efficiency-rebate-of-more-than-138000\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock receives energy efficiency rebate of more than $138,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_28634\" style=\"width: 514px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28634\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-28634   \" title=\"rebate\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/rebate-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"rebate\" width=\"504\" height=\"283\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-28634\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Horizon Utilities chief conservation officer Brian Smith, Tom Saint-Ivany, associate vice-president, Facilities Management, and David Balasiak, project manager, Campus Planning, Design and Construction, hold a provincial energy rebate cheque for more than $138,000.  <\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Brock University&#8217;s commitment to energy efficiency has a resulted in a rebate of more than $138,000 from a provincial program.<\/p>\n<p>Brock received the money Monday after completing six lighting retrofit projects that qualified for the <a href=\"https:\/\/saveonenergy.ca\/getattachment\/Business\/Program-Overviews\/Retrofit-for-Commercial\/Relevant-Documents\/Retrofit-Eligibility.pdf.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">saveONenergy Equipment Replacement Incentive Initiative <\/a>rebate through the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerauthority.on.ca\" target=\"_blank\">Ontario Power Authority<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.horizonutilities.com\/pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Horizon Utilities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Horizon Utilities chief conservation officer Brian Smith said Brock has been a great partner in committing to energy efficiency projects.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(They) will not only benefit the students here, but the community at large,&#8221; he said before presenting Brock with a cheque for $138,662.30 at Monday&#8217;s Senior Administrative Council meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the projects that met ERII criteria included replacing fixtures and lamps in the <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/recreation-services\/facilities-and-hours\/aquatics\" target=\"_blank\">Aquatic Centre<\/a> and campus-wide, and replacing almost 6,000 old fluorescent ballasts and lamps, especially important in older areas of the campus.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The newer lamps offer a better quality of light, a whiter colour, lower operating costs and longer life too, &#8221; said David Balasiak, Brock project manager,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/facilities-management\/campus-planning-design-constru\" target=\"_blank\">Campus Planning, Design and Construction<\/a>. &#8220;(That) results in lower maintenance costs since our electricians won&#8217;t have to change failed lamps or ballasts as often.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock University&#8217;s commitment to energy efficiency has a resulted in a rebate of more than $138,000 from a provincial program. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[1990,962,1995,961,1994,1991,1997,1992,1996,1993],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28633"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28633"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28637,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28633\/revisions\/28637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}