peaksaver® - Be a Neighbourhood Power Star

Join the thousands of Ontarians who are helping to lessen the strain on the electricity system when demand is the highest. By participating in the peaksaver® program you're taking action to reduce the electricity demand for the sake of our environment. This is a way for homeowners and businesses to respond to the province's call for conservation during summer heat waves.

What’s the program all about?

It’s easy to get on board. Just sign up and give Guelph Hydro Electric Systems Inc. (LDC) permission to “cycle down” homeowners’ central air conditioning when the electricity system is stretched to its limits. Your A/C would only be cycled down when absolutely necessary, usually on weekday afternoons during some of those steamy summer days, when the electricity system supply is constrained. Having a special event? Let your LDC know and you can opt out for that particular time - the system will only be activated a hand full of times a season.

Once your programmable thermostat is installed, it can receive a wireless signal to cycle down. It’s unlikely that you’ll notice any difference in the comfort level of your home or business since the inside fan will continue to operate, so that a change in temperature won’t be noticeable.

If you’re a homeowner of a single-family home and have a central air conditioning system, let the LDC do all the work, at no expense to you.

Just for signing up and having the thermostat installed, you’ll receive a $25 credit applied to your account.

What will I save by participating?

While the peaksaver® equipment will have no noticeable effect on the comfort of a building’s occupants, the environmental benefits and the reduction in peak electricity use is significant. When you give your LDC permission to cycle down your electricity use, you’re helping to reduce smog and air pollution. That’s because coal-fired generating stations will be used less often.

By reducing the amount of electricity needed at peak times you'll be lessening the chance of voltage reductions or other disruptions in the power system. You will also help ensure less expensive electricity is used the province, as during peak times, Ontario has to buy more expensive power from other sources, which increases the overall price of electricity. When you help reduce the demand for electricity, you’re actually helping to ensure less expensive electricity is bought to meet our needs.

The bottom line? It's cheaper to save a kilowatt than it is to make one.

peaksaver® is a no-cost, easy to participate in initiative that is helping Ontario meet its peak electricity needs.

                                 Yes, I'd like to help. Sign me up!

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Looking for ways to reduce your electricity demand?

Here are simple steps you can take to reduce demand during peak times:

1. Wait until after 8 p.m. in the evening to run large appliances such as washing machines, clothes dryers and dishwashers;
2. Shut off your pool pump between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. and run it between the hours of 8p.m. to 8 a.m.;
3. Turn off all of the unnecessary lights around your home until after 8 p.m.;
4. Use compact fluorescent light bulbs – they use 75% less electricity;
5. Turn up your air conditioning thermostat to 25 degrees Celsius when you are home and to 28 degrees Celsius when you are away for the day;
6. If you have an old secondary refrigerator that you rarely use, have it picked up for free..

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If you are a Tenant, please have this form completed by your landlord. You must bring it with you in order to pick up your peaksaver® thermostat...

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