Taylor Munro Energy Systems Inc.

With the support of NRCan, Taylor Munro, under its “Solar First Nations Project”, will arrange financing for, market and install 1,200 solar domestic water heating systems in participating Canadian First Nations homes.

Taylor Munro Energy Systems Inc., in business since 1995, is BC’s most experienced solar-thermal company with sales across Canada. The company is dedicated to providing high quality sustainable energy solutions, with a particular focus and expertise in the design and installation of solar hot water systems.
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BULLFROG POWER INC.

Bullfrog, under its "Solar Water Heating Program", in partnership with Enbridge Gas Distribution Inc., Canada's largest gas utility, will implement an incentive-based solar water heater residential deployment Project to install 1,200 solar domestic water heaters in Ontario.  Bullfrog Power Inc. is a leading provider of renewable electricity to homes and businesses in Canada and currently sells green electricity in both Ontario and Alberta.

Bullfrog Power Inc. currently has over 7,000 residential customers and approximately 700 business customers in Ontario and Alberta and expects to have between 15,000 - 20,000 residential customers by the end of 2009.  Bullfrog Power Inc.'s residential customers are the ideal candidates for installing solar water heating devices on their homes. These customers have already chosen to pay a 25-30% premium in order to reduce their environmental impact and support renewable electricity. .
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EAGA Canada Services Inc.

EAGA will implement the “SolarBC” program to market and install 1600 affordable solar water heating systems into new and existing homes in select “Solar Communities” throughout BC.

EAGA Canada Services Inc. has extensive experience in the UK, Canada, India and Ireland in the management of government projects and is committed to outstanding customer service and the installation of energy efficient and renewable energy solutions for the residential sector.
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ENMAX Energy Corporation

ENMAX will rent and/or sell the solar energy produced by 600 solar domestic water heating systems to participating Alberta homeowners with help from the NRCan incentive.

ENMAX is committed to bringing renewable energy technologies to Alberta’s potential 1.3 million residential customers. One of ENMAX’s corporate objectives is to lead in the innovative use of technology. ENMAX seeks to facilitate the adoption of SDHW as a mass-market product at the residential level.
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FORTISBC INC.

Fortris, under its "FORTISBC Solar Water Heating Project", will implement an incentive-based solar water heater residential deployment Project to install 400 solar domestic water heaters in new homes in British Columbia.

FortisBC is a Canadian-owned integrated electric utility headquartered in Kelowna BC, with over 500 employees serving over 157,000 customers in south-central British Columbia. The FortisBC PowerSense programs have provided energy efficiency information and incentives to customers in each customer class (residential, general service and industrial) since 1989 in order to promote the wider scale adoption of renewable energy technologies, and to offset the use of utility - supplied energy. 
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Agence de l'efficacité énergétique (AEE)

The Agence de l'efficacité énergétique pilot project for solar domestic water heaters is aimed at home owners or owners of small multi-unit buildings located in Québec. Launched in June 2009, this pilot project will allow 600 Québec families to benefit from major financial assistance for the purchase and installation of a new solar domestic water heater. The financial assistance offered by the AEE is determined by the number of solar collectors installed. All of the details of the pilot project are available online at www.aee.gouv.qc.ca/en/technological-innovations/solar-hot-water.

The Agence de l'efficacité énergétique is a provincial organization, created by the government of Québec in 1997. The mission of the AEE is to promote energy efficiency and the development of new energy technologies for all sources of energy in all activity sectors, for the benefit of all citizens in all regions of Québec and with a sustainable development perspective.
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Manitoba Hydro

The intention of the Manitoba Residential Solar Hot Water Initiative is to accelerate the sale and installation of 350 active solar domestic water heating systems, to test a large-scale solar deployment strategy, and, thereby, to contribute to a long-term reduction in Manitoba’s overall residential conventional energy load.

Manitoba Hydro has been delivering Power Smart programs in Manitoba since 1989. One of the goals of Power Smart is to identify, promote, and accelerate market acceptance of energy efficient technologies like residential solar hot water systems. The goal of the Manitoba Residential Solar Hot Water Initiative is to create a market environment for Manitoba suppliers and consumers in which to build a sustainable solar hot water system industry and to develop baseline energy data and customer case studies for future promotional activities.
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Reliance Comfort Limited Partnership

Reliance Comfort, under its Solar Domestic Water Heater program, will implement an incentive-based solar water heater residential deployment project with the expressed intention of installing in Ontario homes 500 solar domestic water heaters . Reliance will offer installed systems for rent, and/or sell the solar energy produced by installed systems owned by Reliance to homeowners.

Reliance Comfort owns and services Canada’s second largest portfolio of rental water heaters in a program that was started in the 1960s. Its water heater rental portfolio has over one-million electric and natural gas water heaters, representing approximately 47% of the water heater rental market in Ontario.
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Rock Paper Sun Ltd

Rock Paper Sun, under its "Turn On The Sun" project, will implement an incentive-based solar water heater residential deployment project with the expressed intention of installing 200 solar domestic water heaters in Saskatchewan homes.

Rock Paper Sun Ltd. is a Saskatchewan-based provider and installer of solar products with a strong interest in making solar domestic water heating available as a cost-effective alternative. Solar heating systems will be marketed as an outright sale, through a lease-to-own arrangement, for rent, and/or under a contract to sell the solar energy produced by an installed system.
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Sustainable Ecologics Education Society of Canada

Sustainable Ecologics shall hold Canada’s first “S.M.A.R.T.” Lottery. The Sustainable Method of Accelerating Renewable Technologies Lottery shall offer twenty-five thousand tickets at a cost of one hundred dollars each to Nova Scotians interested in accelerating the solar thermal market.

Winning lottery tickets will result in the installation of 250 solar residential water heating systems.

Sustainable Ecologics Education Society of Canada is a not-for-profit organization founded in response to the need for education in the field of renewable energy and sustainable building technologies.
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Sustainable Ottawa Community Energy Co-Operative Inc.

Sustainable Ottawa, under its "Solar H2Ottawa" project, will implement an incentive-based solar residential deployment project with the expressed intention of selling and installing in Ontario homes 250 solar domestic water heaters.

Sustainable Ottawa is a community-based non-profit organization. Its mission is to make sustainable technologies, products and services more accessible to and economically viable for people within the National Capital Region. Sustainable Ottawa will increase public awareness of sustainable energy technologies and will use the collective bargaining power of its members to reduce the cost of solar domestic water heating systems.
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Illingworth Development Ltd.

Illingworth will implement an incentive-based solar water heater residential deployment project with the expressed intention of installing 600 solar domestic water heaters in new homes in British Columbia. Each home built will have a solar hot water system, a hot water distribution system for heating and a geothermal unit for air conditioning.

Illingworth Development Ltd. was created in 2006 to develop green construction of homes in the Okanagan and Shuswap regions. Currently Illingworth builds single family homes incorporating green heating and cooling technology. Illingworth offers these homes at slightly below market price to demonstrate that building green is practical and affordable.
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The Town Of Vulcan

Under the Vulcan Solar Thermal Project, the Town of Vulcan will construct, in a subdivision named Prairie Vista Estates, a district solar water heating system that will serve the domestic water and space heating demand of 300 residences and include approximately 2,500m² of solar water heating collectors. The system will test a large-scale solar district heating deployment strategy and will contribute to a reduction in Albert’s overall residential conventional energy load.

The Town of Vulcan is the developer of the project and will be the owner of the solar thermal energy utility that will provide solar heat from the installed system to the subdivision.
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Utilities Kingston

Under its Domestic Water Heating Rental Program, Utilities Kingston will implement an incentive-based solar water heater residential deployment project with the expressed intention of installing in Ontario homes 252 solar domestic water heaters.

Utilities Kingston will market and offer installed systems for rent, and/or sell the solar energy produced by installed systems owned by the company, to participating homeowners.

Utilities Kingston owns, manages, and operates a water heating appliance rental business and fiber optic networks throughout the City of Kingston and Eastern Ontario. It also provides staffing, management, operational, and maintenance resources to Kingston Electricity Distribution Limited, the water and sewer utilities of the City of Kingston and the Township of Sydenham, and to City of Kingston-owned Gas Distribution Assets.
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