By subscribing to the EFFICIENT COOPS program, counsellors in energy efficiency from FECHIMM will help you obtain subsidies to which you are entitled. The counsellors’ job is to give information on the various programs at your disposal and to facilitate your implementation of efficient energy measures.

Ecoenergy renovations  

Also, while doing renovations on the thermal envelope of your buildings, you can improve the quality of the insulation. Rebates of ($) are available if you plan doing work on the following components:

• Roof with or without an attic
• Exterior walls
• Foundation walls
• Windows and French-windows
• Central mechanical ventilation system
• Gas heating system

A personalized service

By joining the EFFICIENT CO-OPS program, counsellors in energy efficiency from your Federation or the CQCH will help you along the way to get the financial subsidies you are entitled to. The role of the counsellors is to inform you of all the different programs at your disposal and to facilitate your progress in the implementation of your energy efficiency measures.

Questions along the way ?

Get in touch with your energy efficiency Counsellor who will be more than happy to answer your questions and to help you.

partners

The EFFICIENT CO-OPS program is produced in partnership with Hydro-Québec, the Energy Efficiency Fund of Gaz Métro, Gaz Métro, Environment Canada, the Caisse d’économie solidaire Desjardins, L’Union Canadienne, Investissement Québec, the Société d’habitation du Québec and the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), Gazifère, Communauto, the Grame and Vivre en ville.

How to join?

Up to now, more than 300 cooperatives have joined the program and almost double that amount are about to joint. It’s easy !

Download the EFFICIENT CO-OPS membership kit which includes :

• The resolution to join that your Board of directors must adopt
• A building technical chart which allows you to paint a brief picture of the buildings in your co-op
• The list of the officers in your co-op

Fill in the documents included in the kit and send them back to the energy-efficiency guide-counsellors.

It is also possible to obtain the documents by mail or by fax or by picking them up at the Federation !

Information sessions for co-ops of a same district are held regularly also. Ask the guide-counsellors where the next one close to you will be held.

We have joined! And after …

Once the energy efficiency counsellors have registered your membership to the program, they will get in touch with your co-ops’ representative to set a date for the Extraordinary general assembly (EGA) on energy efficiency.

This two hour EGA will give your members all the information they need or want to know about available financial assistance, it will make them conscious of the importance of energy efficiency in the fight for climatic changes and it will offer a whole bunch of tricks and crafts to reduce energy costs. Also, some time will be reserved for preventative maintenance.

Plan for the EGA

1st part: with all the members

1) Why energy efficiency ? The fight for climatic changes

2) What are the available subsidies ?

3) Tricks and crafts to reduce energy costs

4) Preventative maintenance

2nd part : with the Board of directors and the Maintenance Committe

1) Procedure to follow to implement energy efficiency measures (administrative aspect)

We are hoping for a 60% participation at this EGA.

Energy saving gifts (compact fluorescent bulbs) are distributed to the members present at the EGA.

This EGA is an essential preliminary before proceeding with the implementation of energy efficiency measures, unless there is an exception.

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