Success Stories
Every community and every project, regardless of size, holds the potential to achieve real savings and real change.
Municipalities across Alberta are cutting costs, reducing emissions and strengthening their resilience. Your community can too! Discover how projects are benefiting a city, town, village, municipal district or county near you. These success stories are a catalyst for climate positivity – filter to find your fit!
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Family Leisure Centre REALice Retrofit
OVERVIEW As part of the MCCAC’s Recreation Energy Conservation (REC) program, the City of Medicine Hat installed a REALice system at the Family Leisure Centre. REALice is an energy-saving de-aerating system for ice rinks. It creates a controlled and structured vortex to remove gases and other particulates such as limescale as water flows through the…
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Polar Palace Hockey Arena Lighting Retrofit
OVERVIEW As part of the MCCAC’s Recreation Energy Conservation (REC) program, the Town of Valleyview completed a lighting retrofit of the Polar Palace Hockey Arena, updating over 300 fixtures to LED equivalents. The project was completed in February 2021. APPROACH The Polar Palace Hockey Arena lighting retrofit project included the replacement of all existing 339…
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Bashaw Arena Lighting Retrofit
OVERVIEW As part of the MCCAC’s Recreation Energy Conservation (REC) program, the Town of Bashaw completed a lighting retrofit of the Bashaw Arena, updating over 180 lamps and fixtures to LED equivalents. The project was completed in January 2021. APPROACH The Bashaw Arena lighting retrofit project included the replacement of 25 metal halide, 14 incandescent,…
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Servus Community Arena REALice, Hot Water Heater, and Door Sweeps Retrofit
OVERVIEW As part of the MCCAC’s Recreation Energy Conservation (REC) program, the Town of Bow Island installed a REALice system at the Servus Community Arena. They also included a tankless hot water heater and new door sweeps in their retrofit project. REALice is an energy-saving de-aerating system for ice rinks. It creates a controlled and…
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Henderson Ice Centre Lighting Retrofit
OVERVIEW As part of the MCCAC’s Recreation Energy Conservation (REC) program, the City of Lethbridge completed a lighting retrofit of the Henderson Ice Centre, updating over 70 fixtures to LED equivalents. The project was completed in January 2021. APPROACH The Henderson Ice Centre lighting retrofit project included the replacement of 52 metal halide and 21…
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Town of Athabasca, Athabasca County, and Village of Boyle Municipal Energy Manager
As part of the Municipal Energy Manager (MEM) Program, a partnership of the Town of Athabasca, Athabasca County, and Village of Boyle partnered to hire a Municipal Energy Manager that will benchmark municipal facilities, identify energy savings opportunities, and implement greenhouse gas emission reducing projects.
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Big Lakes County Ground Mount Solar PV
OVERVIEW As part of the MCCAC’s Alberta Municipal Solar Program (AMSP), Big Lakes County installed an 216 kW solar PV ground mount system at the County Office. The main objective of the solar farm is to reduce the cost of the direct energy used by the County. The project was completed in 2020. APPROACH The…
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North County Recreation Complex Lighting Retrofit
OVERVIEW As part of the MCCAC’s Recreation Energy Conservation (REC) program, the Town of Picture Butte completed a lighting retrofit of the North County Recreation Complex, updating over 200 fixtures to LED equivalents. The project was completed in December 2020. APPROACH The North County Recreation Complex lighting retrofit project included the replacement of 241 T8,…
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Carmangay Ground Mount Solar PV
OVERVIEW As part of the MCCAC’s Alberta Municipal Solar Program (AMSP), the Village of Carmangay installed an 146 kW solar PV ground mount system at the Carmangay Lift Station. The project will produce enough renewable electricity on an annual basis to offset the rest of the Village’s municipal consumption, making municipality electrically net-zero in its…
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Sexsmith Ground Mount Solar PV
As part of the MCCAC’s Alberta Municipal Solar Program (AMSP), the Town of Sexsmith installed an 706.9 kW solar PV ground mount system at the Sexsmith Landfill. The project was completed in 2020. The Town of Sexsmith received grant funding from the Municipal Climate Change Action Centre’s Alberta Municipal Solar Program to install the solar…
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Ryley Ground Mount Solar PV
As part of the MCCAC’s Alberta Municipal Solar Program (AMSP), the Village of Ryley installed a 144 kW solar PV ground mount system at the Ryley Landfill. The project was completed in 2020. Council and Administration are very happy and so grateful that the Ryley Solar Project built by Dandelion Renewables could move forward with…
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Feasibility Study for Various Electric Fleet Options
As part of the MCCAC’s Electric Vehicles for Municipalities (EVM) Program, the Town of Canmore conducted a feasibility study on transitioning fleet vehicles that were coming due for replacement to electric options. These include the replacement of three fleet vehicles (and the addition of a new fourth vehicle), two ice resurfacers, one UTV, and upgrades…
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