{"id":65371,"date":"2024-11-21T10:30:25","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T18:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/energi.media\/?p=65371"},"modified":"2024-11-21T10:30:25","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T18:30:25","slug":"winnipeg-ponders-gas-phaseout-for-all-buildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/energi.media\/news\/winnipeg-ponders-gas-phaseout-for-all-buildings\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg ponders gas phaseout for all buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"

This article was published by The Energy Mix<\/a> on Nov. 21, 2024.<\/em><\/p>\n

By Gaye Taylor<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Two years after Winnipeg began implementing its net-zero focused Community Energy Investment Roadmap, a citizen-led committee is pushing the city to study exactly how to implement one of the Roadmap\u2019s core pillars: phasing out natural gas use in all buildings, existing and new.<\/p>\n

A\u00a0motion<\/a>\u00a0to request that City of Winnipeg staff report back in six months on \u201ctools and mechanisms available to phase out the use of natural gas in existing buildings and buildings planned for greenfield and infill development,\u201d is due to be ruled on by the city\u2019s Waste, Water, and Environment Committee on Nov. 22.<\/p>\n

Adopted by the city\u2019s Climate Action and Resilience Committee, a citizens\u2019 advisory body, on Oct. 28, the motion provides chronology and context for Winnipeg\u2019s developing interest in a gas phaseout:<\/p>\n

\u2022 In March 2022, council asked staff to report back on policies in Vancouver and New York banning new buildings from using natural gas after 2030.<\/p>\n

\u2022 In July 2022, it directed staff to implement the\u00a0Community Energy Investment Roadmap<\/a>\u00a0for reducing energy consumption, improving efficiency, and switching to low-carbon energy sources.<\/p>\n

\u2022 This September, the Manitoba government released its\u00a0Manitoba Affordable Energy Plan<\/a>, which\u00a0pledges<\/a>\u00a0to \u201cmove away from non-renewable heating sources such as natural gas.\u201d<\/p>\n

The document now before the Waste, Water and Environment Committee also cites efforts by other Canadian municipalities to reduce fossil-fuel heating in buildings through bylaw development, emissions standards, and equipment incentives.<\/p>\n

The committee also affirmed the climate imperative of phasing out natural gas use in Winnipeg.<\/p>\n

\u201cGreenhouse gas emissions from buildings\u2014including homes, businesses, institutions, and industrial buildings\u2014make up 44 per cent of the total emissions from Winnipeg in 2020; the majority (93 per cent) of which result from the use of natural gas for space heating and other industrial purposes,\u201d writes the Climate Action and Resilience Committee, citing the Roadmap.<\/p>\n

The committee does not mention the considerably lower energy bill that would attend switching out fossil fuels for clean electricity. Under its net-zero scenario, annual household energy costs for Winnipeggers \u201cfall by 45 per cent to $3,600 by 2050,\u201d compared to $6,000 under a business-as-usual scenario, the Roadmap says.<\/p>\n

Achieving those cost savings, while cutting emissions rapidly enough to achieve Winnipeg\u2019s climate goals, will require that all buildings in the city\u2014new and existing, residential, commercial, industrial, and institutional\u2014are using electric heat pumps for space heating and cooling by 2050, the document adds.<\/p>\n

Time to Walk the Talk<\/h2>\n

\u201cWe have ambitious targets about cutting down our building-heating use of natural gas, but we don\u2019t seem to be doing anything yet,\u201d Councillor Brian Mayes told the Winnipeg Free Press.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis (motion) is a good way of forcing a debate about what it is we actually want to do and can do in this term of council,\u201d said Mayes, who chairs the Climate Action and Resilience Committee.<\/p>\n

Winnipegger Kaitlyn Duthie, who this summer purchased her first home, built in the early 20th century, is a strong supporter of the motion.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just got our first gas bill and I was surprised at how expensive it was, even with a newer energy-efficient furnace!\u201d Duthie told\u00a0The Energy<\/em>\u00a0Mix<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs an environmentally conscious person who is also trying to save money where I can, I really want to see more supports for homeowners like ourselves\u2014and anyone building new homes\u2014to transition away from heat sources that are both expensive and bad for the planet,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs we think about having children in the near future, it is so important to me that we do everything in our power to avoid the worst-case scenario in terms of climate change and protect the next generations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Getting from Here to There<\/h2>\n

The Roadmap\u2019s directive to \u201creduce, improve, and switch\u201d is deliberate in its order, with top priority on reducing energy consumption and maximizing building energy efficiency.<\/p>\n

Switching to low-carbon electricity sources without tackling demand would require \u201csubstantial transformation of the electricity grid and distribution network,\u201d the Roadmap states.<\/p>\n

By contrast, following the \u201creduce-improve-switch paradigm\u201d would mean that \u201cthe total consumption of grid electricity remains unchanged between now and 2050.\u201d<\/p>\n

The path to reducing consumption and maximizing efficiency is hardly hurdle-free, however. One significant stumbling block is that provincial laws currently forbid Winnipeg from enforcing its 2020 Building Code above the lowest tier adopted by the province.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is much discussion currently with the new provincial government to accelerate the adoption of higher tiers,\u201d Curt Hull, project director for Climate Change Connection, told\u00a0The<\/em>\u00a0Mix<\/em>. \u201cI have not heard of any efforts to allow municipalities to enforce higher tiers.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course, they can enforce higher tiers for buildings they own or finance, but have no jurisdiction over other construction,\u201d Hull added.<\/p>\n

The high upfront costs of deep retrofits are another hurdle. The motion asks city staff to study possible grant programs.<\/p>\n

Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE<\/a>) programs, which supply low-interest loans to cover the upfront costs of energy efficiency upgrades like heat pumps, solar panels, and insulation\u2014with repayment installments showing up as small surcharges on property tax bills to allow longer paybacks\u2014might be one option to pursue, Hull said. While the approach is well known elsewhere, getting PACE to work in Winnipeg would \u201calso require provincial enabling legislation,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Combining Heat Pumps with District Heating<\/h2>\n

While the Climate Action and Resilience Committee does not ask city staff to explore replacements for natural gas, the Roadmap points in that direction, citing the efficiency advantages of ground-source heat pumps over gas furnaces. Where a \u201chigh efficiency natural gas furnace generates 0.97 units of heat for every unit of natural gas consumed,\u201d a cold-weather heat pump \u201cgenerates two to four units of heat for each unit of electricity consumed,\u201d says the Roadmap.<\/p>\n

Maintaining the necessary \u201cthermal balance over time\u201d will require connecting buildings together in district systems, Hull said, adding that \u201ceach building in the system should have achieved at least a minimum energy efficiency standard before being modelled into the system.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hull is co-author of an ongoing series of reports called Manitoba\u2019s Road to Resilience. The third in the series, published last year,\u00a0recommends<\/a>\u00a0the province establish a geothermal public utility that would map, plan, model, finance, own, and manage such systems, just as Manitoba Hydro now oversees the province\u2019s hydro resources.<\/p>\n

So far, the\u00a0City of Markham<\/a>\u00a0is the only jurisdiction in Canada with a similar district energy utility in place.<\/p>\n

Sewer Upgrades First?<\/h2>\n

Councillor Evan Duncan, chair of the Waste, Water, and Environment Committee which will be ruling on the natural gas phaseout motion, has reservations about pursuing the plan at this time, citing Winnipeg\u2019s continuing effort to complete a multi-billion-dollar sewage treatment plant upgrade.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe (sewage treatment) project was already the most expensive infrastructure project in Winnipeg\u2019s history,\u201d CBC News\u00a0wrote<\/a>\u00a0in a June update. The city\u2019s latest accounting raised the total cost estimate for the upgrade to $3 billion\u2014more than $600 million higher than the previous total of $2.38 billion.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want water, waste, and the environment to be laser-focused (on the sewage upgrades) and not be pulled in every direction,\u201d Duncan told the Winnipeg Free Press. He said he sees phasing out natural gas as a good idea, but noted that Winnipeg has limited funds available.<\/p>\n

The Roadmap says full implementation of its decarbonization plan\u2014at a total cost of $23 billion between 2022 and 2050\u2014would accrue \u201csavings of $53.7 billion from avoided carbon costs, energy expense savings, and avoided maintenance costs between 2028 and 2050.\u201d<\/p>\n

Factoring in an anticipated $4.9 billion in revenue \u201cresults in a $35.6 billion benefit to the community, a climate dividend that averages $1.2 billion per year,\u201d it states.<\/p>\n

The Climate Action and Resilience Committee adds that, as of 2021, Winnipeg had nine years of natural gas usage left at then-current rates to stay within a \u00a01.5\u2103-compliant carbon budget.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo we really mean it [the Roadmap] or not?\u201d Mayes asked. \u201cOr was it all just a plan that we\u2019re not going to do anything about? I think that\u2019s the question we have to answer.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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