Town of Cardston, Alberta
Stop Cardston's energy overspend.
The arena, pool and town buildings pay more for energy than they need to. We find the overspend, fix it, and pay for it out of the savings. Same comfort for everyone who uses them.
About the same as a 1.1% property tax increase Cardston doesn't have to pass.
Illustrative: about $35,000 a year in savings across pooled town buildings, weighed against Cardston's $3,170,684 net municipal property tax levy for 2024. Also about $28 a year per household. Real figures come from Cardston's own data. Source below.
The problem
Where the overspend comes from.
Energy overspend
Equipment running longer or harder than it needs to, on today's rates.
Repairs that keep coming back
Small problems turn into service calls, again and again.
Equipment that wears out early
Hard use shortens the life of what the town already owns.
How the money works
Savings cover the payment, with money left over.
Illustrative. Real figures come from Cardston's data.
The plan
Three steps to get started.
01
Share your bills and data
Utility bills and a year of interval data. No site visit needed yet.
02
Get a plan with real numbers
We model the savings from Cardston's own data, not a guess.
03
We arrange funding and installation
You approve the numbers. We handle financing, permitting, and the work.
Funding & financing
Programs we'll pursue for you, wherever you qualify.
Funding we'll pursue for you
- FCM Green Municipal FundOpen, rolling applications
- Canada Infrastructure Bank retrofitsOpen, through lending partners
- NRCan Green and Inclusive Community BuildingsClosed, watching for the next round
- MCCAC programsWinding down province wide
- Emissions Reduction AlbertaNot a fit for a project this size today
- Cardston's own municipal utilityTo confirm directly
How you can pay
- Your Canada Community-Building Fund allocationAlready yours; council can choose to direct it here
- Alberta's Local Government Fiscal FrameworkAlready yours; same choice
- Savings-funded financingPaid down from the savings; terms confirmed with your finance team
- CashStraightforward, no financing needed
Towns don't pay income tax, so federal tax credits generally don't apply to Cardston directly. No claims here about debt treatment; that's confirmed with your own finance team before anything is signed.
Your diagnostician
Cliff Suljak checks the numbers first.
Cliff Suljak · Chief Technical Engineer
When the Department of Energy and Department of Defense needed measurements right the first time, Sandia National Laboratories handed the contract to Cliff Suljak directly, without a bid.
He built the quality control system behind a $600 million utility program. He designs the measurement before anyone touches a unit.
Sources
- Net municipal property taxes, $3,170,684 for 2024 (budget $3,182,086; 2023 actual $2,946,554), Town of Cardston Consolidated Financial Statements, Year Ended December 31, 2024, Schedule of Property and Other Taxes (Schedule 3): cardston.ca financial statements PDF
- Occupied private dwellings (households), 1,261, 2021 Census of Population, Statistics Canada: statcan.gc.ca
- Population, 2021 Census of Population, Statistics Canada: statcan.gc.ca
- Cardston recreational facilities (arena, pool, town office), Town of Cardston: cardston.ca/recreation
- Cardston owns and operates its own electrical distribution system, not FortisAlberta, Town of Cardston: cardston.ca/electrical
- Cardston's own demand ratchet on Small/Medium Commercial rates, Town of Cardston Bylaw #1649, Distribution Tariff Rate Schedule (effective July 1, 2026): cardston.ca bylaw PDF
- How Alberta demand ratchets work generally, Utilities Consumer Advocate: ucahelps.alberta.ca
- FCM Green Municipal Fund, Community Buildings Retrofit initiative, status and eligibility: greenmunicipalfund.ca
- NRCan / Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada, Green and Inclusive Community Buildings program status: housing-infrastructure.canada.ca
- Canada Infrastructure Bank, Building Retrofits Initiative: cib-bic.ca
- Canada Community-Building Fund / Building Communities Strong Fund, Alberta: alberta.ca
- Alberta Local Government Fiscal Framework, capital funding: alberta.ca
- MCCAC wind-down announcement: mccac.ca
- Emissions Reduction Alberta, current funding calls: eralberta.ca
- NRCan ice rink / arena energy benchmarking: natural-resources.canada.ca
- Ice plant to pool heat recovery case studies (Okotoks AB, Chilliwack BC, Hope BC): bchydro.com · prismengineering.com
- Big Rock Power, company background: bigrockpower.ca