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Community Energy Association wants to help you access the knowledge you're looking for to make your community more energy aware and energy smart.
If you want an in-depth learning program and certification, sign up for our Certificate in Community Energy Management.
Other resources we like include the BC Climate Action Toolkt and QUEST
If you want to access the latest research, check out our publications that cover:
- Planning resources for developing a community energy and emissions plan
- Economics including local economic development
- Transportation with a focus on electric vehicles (EV's) and charging infrastructure
- Heating options for homes and district heating guides including biomass district heating
- Efficiency in buildings and how local governments can encourage or require it
- Renewable Energy Guide - CEA's suite of publications that gives local governments a solid starting point on planning, policy, heating, electricity, finance, and governance
- Snapshots, surveys, and analysis covering a wide range of actions
- CEEP QuickStart documents and webinars
Resources & Publications
ZEV Story Toolkit
The ZEV Story Toolkit equips local and regional governments to be the designers and delivery agents of quality, creative communications materials in order to improve awareness and increase ZEV adoption in their community. The toolkit includes a guide as well as examples and templates to walk local governments from project conception through to creating communications materials.
Green Development Standards Toolkit
Clean Air Partnership recently created a Green Development Standards Toolkit. Funded by FCM, the Toolkit can be broadly applied to any jurisdiction in Canada but draws on many Ontario examples. CEA has partnered with CAP to produce an appendix that provides additional locally relevant content for BC and Yukon.
Climate Action Planner Demo
In this video we introduce you to the Climate Action Planner. This interactive tool is for BC local governments to explore community-wide climate actions. It creates draft energy & emissions inventories for any local government or Islands Trust Area in BC, and allows you to conduct simplified modelling to see the effectiveness of implementing actions to meet GHG reduction targets (for detailed modeling, please contact CEA). Local government staff, elected officials and other stakeholders can use this tool to better understand what their community’s emissions are, and which actions will be most effective in reducing emissions and meeting targets. Actions are further explained in the Climate Leaders Playbook - https://bcclimateleaders.ca/.
CEA’s New Climate Action Planner Tool
In this webinar, CEA demonstrates its interactive Climate Action Planner tool, https://www.communityenergy.ca/climate-action-planner/. This tool allows a user to create a draft energy & emissions inventory for any local government or Islands Trust Area in BC, and conduct simplified modelling to see the effectiveness of implementing actions to meet GHG reduction targets. This webinar also demonstrates how it should be used in conjunction with the Climate Leaders Playbook (“the Playbook”), https://bcclimateleaders.ca/, and how it relates to the FCM-ICLEI Partners for Climate Protection milestones.
Climate Action Primer for the 2020 BC Election
Local governments are already doing a lot to create low carbon, livable communities, and there are many ways the Province can support. In this infographic, created by the BC Municipal Climate Leadership Council in collaboration with CEA, we lay out the specific ways the Province can support local governments in their climate action pathway.
EV Experience Videos
Why is home energy efficiency important and how can it be achieved in every new build? The Community Energy Association has created several short videos through the “Building a Legacy” initiative to address this question.
In addition to topics like Becoming an Energy Advisor and Improving Performance Through Air-Tightness, there are case studies of high performing homes, interviews with builders and home owners, and an analysis of how Kimberley, BC, transformed its local building industry.
Business Model Innovation to Support Air Source Heat Pump Retrofits in Metro Vancouver: What We’ve Learned (August 2020)
Follow up to our initial recommendations on fundamental elements of a new business model to significantly increase the number of electric air source heat pump industry in BC’s lower mainland, this report documents what we’ve learned since introducing the concept to the region including stakeholder input from interviews and outreach.
#RuralEV Mobile Showcase Report
The #RuralEV Mobile Showcase was a 2-year initiative to bring the experience of EVs to residents across the Kootenays. This graphic report summarizes outcomes of the project as well as the various elements of the campaign.
Accelerate Kootenays Graphic Report
Canada’s first community driven collaborative strategy to build a clean transportation network was completed in 2019. The 3-year, $1.89 million project brought together multiple partners with varying expertise to transform a rural region into one that facilitates EV travel to and within the region. This report summarizes the key achievements of the project and the related the impacts and outcomes.
Building a Legacy Videos
Why is home energy efficiency important and how can it be achieved in every new build? The Community Energy Association has created several short videos through the “Building a Legacy” initiative to address this question.
In addition to topics like Becoming an Energy Advisor and Improving Performance Through Air-Tightness, there are case studies of high performing homes, interviews with builders and home owners, and an analysis of how Kimberley, BC, transformed its local building industry.
