Iqaluit

About Atuttiarniq: Iqaluit

The Iqaluit Pilot Project was the first Energy Performance Contract undertaken as part of the Government of Nunavut’s Nunavut Energy Management Program. The project included the financing and delivery of deep energy conservation retrofits across 37 government buildings located in Nunavut’s capital city, and also included a selection of innovative clean energy systems installations. The $12.6M Iqaluit Pilot Project was successfully completed in 2016 after a four-year, multi-phased Implementation period followed by two years of annual energy savings monitoring. Annual performance monitoring demonstrated that the Iqaluit Pilot Project successfully reduced annual energy costs by over $2M – a 20% reduction over the reference baseline year. This savings performance was also 25% higher than the guaranteed target for the project, indicating that the project repayment term would take less time than initially anticipated. Energy conservation in the buildings led to annual Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions reduction of 2,405 tonnes of equivalent carbon dioxide – a reduction equal to the annual emissions from 320 average Canadian homes. The successful completion of the Iqaluit Pilot Project and its demonstration of strong savings performance served as the proof-of-concept for the Atuttiarniq Energy Program that was subsequently developed and implemented across Nunavut’s four main regions of Kivalliq, South Baffin, North Baffin and Kitikmeot.