For eligible Projects the Program will pay $400 per KW of on-peak summer demand reduction, and $0.05 per kWh of annual energy savings or $250 per cooling tonne (for geothermal cooling projects). The amount of incentive payable for a given Project is capped at 40% of the sum the eligible costs of the Project.

No. This Program is strictly performance-based. This means incentives are based on verifiable measurements and calculations supporting a claim the Project reduces on-peak demand or annual energy consumption.

The Program pays an incentive for eligible summer demand reductions ($400/kW) or annual energy savings ($0.05/kWh) or $250 per cooling tonne (for geothermal cooling projects). It does NOT pay for anything else. The incentive for any eligible Project is capped at 40% of the eligible costs of implementing the Project. Eligible costs include, among other things, energy audits and engineering fees directly attributable to the Project, and supported by copies of paid invoices.

No. The Program Rules specify an eligible Project comprises one or more eligible Measures completed in one building. An application form must be completed for each building. A BOMA Go Green/BESt Assessment must be purchased for each application.(BOMA BEST CERTIFICATION IS NOT REQUIRED)

Office buildings, retail stores, restaurants, hotels, and private institutions. Private institutions are privately-owned educational and healthcare facilities. Buildings must have a gross floor area of 25,000 square feet or greater.

Multiresidential construction (condominiums or apartments) and members of the "MUSH group" (– buildings belonging to municipalities, universities, schools and hospitals) and new construction.

The BOMA CDM Program is restricted to buildings within the boundaries of the City of Toronto (the 416 area code). Buildings located outside Toronto's boundaries are not eligible.

The Ministry directive (February 2006) to save 330 MW of electrical power specified Toronto as the geographical Program limit. This directive is the basis for this Program (among others).

There is no requirement for applicants to become BOMA members to access the BOMA Toronto CDM Program or BOMA Go Green/BESt.

The Ontario Power Authority, the provincial agency that sponsors the CDM Program, is aware of opportunities in the multi-residential market, and plans to design separate initiatives to address them. For the BOMA Toronto CDM Program, the OPA want to focus on the commercial building market.

Eligible Measures include:

• Lighting systems retrofit;
• Equipment replacement – chillers, motors;
• HVAC system re-designs such as free cooling;
• Application of variable speed drives to fan and pump systems;
• Building envelope and glazing changes;
• Building automation systems;
• Lighting control systems;
• Tenant sub-metering systems;
• Fuel Substitution;
• Deep lake water cooling;
• Ground source heat pumps;
• Lighting redesign;
• Voltage Optimization;
• Window Film 

BOMA and the OPA will consider adding a Measure to the list, provided it offers measurable and sustainable demand or energy reductions.

A Measure is defined as a single initiative that is eligible for funding under the Program. Eligible Measures include

• Lighting systems retrofit;
• Equipment replacement – chillers, motors;
• HVAC system re-designs such as free cooling;
• Application of variable speed drives to fan and pump systems;
• Building envelope and glazing changes;
• Building automation systems;
• Lighting control systems;
• Tenant sub-metering systems;
• Fuel Substitution;
• Deep lake water cooling;
• Ground source heat pumps;
• Lighting redesign;
• Voltage Optimization;
• Window Film 

A Measure achieves sustainable electrical savings – either or both of summer on-peak demand reductions, and annual energy reductions. A Measure can attract an incentive for on-peak demand reduction, or annual energy reduction, but not both. 

A Project is the combination of one or more eligible Measures. A Project could include, for example, lighting retrofits and an HVAC system re-design. Depending on the Measures included in the overall Project, the incentive for a Project can be based on on-peak summer demand reduction and annual energy savings.

Fuel Substitution or Fuel Switching is the replacement of an electricity-driven application with a gas-fired device serving the same need. Electric-to-gas boiler conversions, there placement of an electric chiller with an absorption chiller and the replacement of electric unitary heaters with gas-fired radiant heaters are examples of Fuel Substitution Measures that are eligible under the Program.

For a complete and detailed description of the application process, see the Program Rules. A very quick overview is provided in the Application Checklist. Both documents are downloadable from the Program web page at www.bomacdm.com

No. Completion of a Go Green Plus Assessment Tool (which generates a report on your building) is a mandatory part of the application process. On completion of the Project (at which point the eligible incentive money is paid) the Applicant agrees to re-enter the building data into the Go Green Assessment Tool 12 months after the project has been completed. Certification is still an option, and we'd encourage Program participants to go this extra step.

Go Green Plus is an online building and management environmental audit, owned by BOMA Canada and administered by BOMA Toronto. The program measures a building's environmental factors such as energy use, indoor health and environmental performance against the best industry operation and management practices. In addition, Go Green Plus is an important educational tool, designed to encourage sustainable best practices throughout the commercial real estate industry.

The Go Green Registration Guide, available for downloading from on the CDM Program page) provides details on Go Green and the process for obtaining Go Green eligibility for the CDM Program. CERTIFICATION NOT REQUIRED. REMINDER – don't purchase the Go Green Assessment Tool before submitting your application to the BOMA Toronto CDM Program, obtaining a Project Number and signing the Participant Agreement.

Participant will receive incentive payment 30 days after receipt of final evaluation incentive report and/or receipt of invoices for all eligible project costs.

A critical element of this Program is the measurement and verification (M&V) of the project electricity savings. The program has established the specific M&V procedures based on international protocols to ensure effective governance of each measure.

Project Evaluators are three (3) independent engineering firms hired by the BOMA CDM Program (at no cost to the Participant) for their experience and expertise in International Measurement and Verification protocols. While the Project Evaluators will not conduct M&V Procedures themselves, they will satisfy themselves the Program Participant (and their engineering team) have an appropriate M&V plan for the Project, and have followed it before and after Project installation.

Incentive programs requiring "proof" of performance from the billing meter data are burdened by the large number of variables affecting demand and consumption over the course of a year and usually culminate in long arguments over what incentive is justified. The BOMA Toronto CDM Program takes the position that a Project supported by sound principles and a standardized evaluation process (M&V) generates real, quantifiable, and sustainable savings. The advantage of this approach is it offers the Applicant a business case: the Project's incentive value is known at the outset and payable on completion of the job as long as the Project is installed and verified as proposed in the application documents. The resulting Program take-up more than offsets any uncertainty around eligible savings (and incentive funding) as determined by the use of M&V protocols.

All electricity ratepayers of Ontario (not taxpayers) subsidize this (and many other) Conservation and Demand Management incentive programs.

The incentive payments are based on the following criteria:

• Verified peak demand reduction at $400 per kW or
• Verified consumption at $0.05 per kWh or
• Verified cooling tonne reduction for geothermal projects at $250 per tonne to a maximum of 40% of total eligible costs.

The objective of the BOMA Toronto CDM Program, over the course of three years, will reduce the demand on Toronto's electrical supply by 150 MW.