The District of Nipissing Social Services Administration Board (DNSSAB) will be retrofitting dozens of social housing homes thanks to new provincial funding. The Social Housing Electricity Efficiency Program (SHEEP) has allocated $921,748.00 as part of 10-million dollars the province is investing to improve electricity efficiency in homes found in smaller and rural communities. The province estimates approximately 1,300 single social housing homes in Ontario will be retrofitted as part of this program. The DNSSAB estimates anywhere between 50 to 100 homes will be made more energy efficient through this program.
“We are very pleased this kind of investment is being made locally,” says DNSSAB Chair, Mark King. “This type of retrofit will save future electricity costs as well as help conserve energy.”
Funding for the Social Housing Electricity Efficiency Program is part of a larger Green Investment Fund that takes advantage of the economic opportunities in clean technologies, improves energy efficiency and reduces greenhouse gas emissions and is part of the province's cap and trade program.
