Making Peterborough facilities more energy efficient to cost millions: study – Peterborough [Video]

A feasibility study says it would cost the City of Peterborough more than $56 million to retrofit nine corporate facilities to make them more energy efficient.

During Monday’s city council meeting, council endorsed a report from the Community Building Retrofit Feasibility Study for energy efficiency projects.

According to a consultant, cutting the emissions of the city’s top nine greenhouse gas-emitting facilities by 80 per cent over 20 years will cost $56,494,291.

The city’s largest emitters are the Peterborough Memorial Centre, Kinsmen Arena, the municipal operations centre, the Healthy Planet Arena, Peterborough Sport and Wellness Centre, city hall, Simcoe Street bus terminal, the Peterborough Art Gallery and the Peterborough Airport terminal.

The study proposes multiple energy conservation measures for each facility, such as low-flow water faucets and shower heads, improved insulation, LED lighting, air-source heat pumps, solar panels and triple-pane windows. For the Memorial Centre, the report also recommends electric ice resurfacers and cold water arena ice flooding.

“This is not an …