The City of Kelowna has shown its leadership in energy efficiency by signing up to be a pilot community in the provincial Community Action on Energy Efficiency (CAEE) initiative - Phase 1. Through MEMPR’s CAEE program, pilot communities are focusing on advancing energy efficiency through municipal policies and bylaws - read the Local Government Policy Instruments Initiative program for more details.

As part of CAEE, the City of Kelowna partnered with FortisBC and a private property owner to review municipal procedures affecting energy efficiency for new buildings and then merged those practices with the development of sustainable buildings. The findings were summarized into a Sustainable Building Primer useful to other communities for defining their own policies to create sustainable buildings.

As part of a requested expansion to the program, the City of Kelowna will implement an energy efficiency buildings checklist for new development created in consultation with local developers.

City of Kelowna’s Sustainable Building Pilot Project.

During the ESP incentive pilot that was conducted March 2006 - March 2007, community members had access to provincial grants for energy efficient retrofits from October 2006.