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Mar 05, 2013  Comment

Helping You Understand Your Power Bill

To our customers in Dawson, Mayo, and Faro... We have confirmed details for our visits to your communities to talk to you about your bills.  Dawson - March 20th - KIAC - 5 to 8 p.m. Mayo - March 21st - Community Hall - 4 to 7 p.m. Faro - March 22nd - Sportsman's Lounge - 2 to 6 p.m. Please bring your electric bills with you. Spread the word in your community. Thanks.
Community Involvement, Energy Conservation
Mar 18, 2013  Comment

Developing Your Business Case to Save Energy

Have an idea for a project that would help save your business money and reduce energy use?   This coming Thursday at our Conversations in Conservation information session, we'll walk you through the basics of developing a business case for an energy project.  We'll cover such topics as: 1) How to determine how much energy the project will save; 2) How to calculate the costs and payback time; and 3) What resources are avaiilable in Yukon to support your energy project. Yukon Energy's Stephanie Whitehead and Marc-Andre Lavigne will talk about their experiences and the tools they use to develop business cases for energy projects. Conversations in Conservation is a monthly event that is normally held the last Thursday of every month. We are holding it one week easier this month because of the Easter break. All the events are held at the Westmark Whitehorse Hotel from 12 noon to 1 p.m. There is no cost and everyone is welcome. Cookies and refreshments will be served. For further information, please contact stephanie.whitehead@yec.yk.ca or call (867) 393 3897.
Community Involvement, Energy Conservation
Mar 19, 2013  8

Join Team Earth Hour

What will you be doing this Saturday night? We encourage you to join Team Earth Hour, and spend part of the evening taking action to reduce your energy consumption. Earth Hour is an annual global event hosted by the World Wildlife Fund. This year it is set for Saturday March 23rd from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. The idea is for everyone to show their support for action on climate change by turning off their lights for one hour and reducing energy usage any other ways they can. Yukon Energy will track the electrical consumption for that hour of all Yukon communities connected to our grid to find out how much was saved. We'll post the results here on this blog and on our social media sites (Facebook and Twitter).  Last year during Earth Hour, Yukoners reduced their consumption by 1.1 megawatts. This year we're hoping to do even better. While Earth Hour is symbolic (obviously it by itself won't solve the problem of climate change), it is a starting point. We'd like Yukon people to think about how all of us use energy, and take action to conserve energy all the time. We'd also invite you to post a note on our blog or Facebook page, outlining what you will be doing/what you did during Earth Hour to reduce your energy consumption. If you take the time to do this, we'll enter your name in a draw for a selection of energy-saving products for your home. The deadline to enter is Monday March 25th at 4 p.m. Yukon time. For more information about Earth Hour, visit the World Wildlife Fund’s website.
Community Involvement, Energy Supply
Mar 19, 2013  Comment

Yukon’s Wind Future

 Thank you to everyone who attended our wind energy workshop yesterday in Whitehorse. There was lots of great information and many good questions and comments. We will compile all your input and summarize it into a document that will be posted here and on our website. We will also post all the presentations. We hope to be able to do that within the next couple of weeks. The picture above was taken during the evening public session, but we also held a day session for interested stakeholders. After presentations from six energy experts, people had an opportunity to spend time at various stations providing comments and suggestions related to incorporating wind energy into our portfolio.

Billing
Mar 19, 2013  Comment

Your Power Bill Questions Answered

A reminder that we'll be in Dawson City, Mayo and Faro this week and are offering to meet with any of our customers in those communities who may have questions about their electricity bills. We'll help you understand what the various charges are on your bill, how and why we estimate bills, and we'll help you identify any "energy hogs" that might be driving up your electricity bills. We'll also have some energy saving products to give away. Dawson – March 20th – KIAC – 5 to 8 p.m. Mayo – March 21st – Community Hall – 4 to 7 p.m. Faro – March 22nd – Sportsman's Lounge – 2 to 6 p.m. Please bring your electric bills with you. If you can't make it, you may find this information sheet useful. 
Energy Supply, Reliability
Mar 20, 2013  Comment

Ten Year Tune-Up

 Seen below is one of our Whitehorse hydro units, getting its major 10 year overhaul and mechanical inspection. This is standard practice for all our units to ensure reliability of our system. Photo credit: Jim Petelski.

Community Involvement, Energy Conservation
Mar 25, 2013  Comment

Earth Hour Results

Yukoners reduced their consumption by about 665 kilowatts during Earth Hour on Saturday night. That's about what it takes to power half of the Logan subdivision in Whitehorse, or half of Dawson City. While it's great to see any reduction, the showing isn't as good as it has been for the last few years. Last year Yukoners reduced their consumption by about 1.1 megawatts and the year before that it was approximately one megawatt. Nonetheless, thanks to all of you who did make an effort to reduce your electricity usage on Saturday evening. For those of you who posted what you did during Earth Hour, we'll put your names in a hat and draw for a prize (a selection of energy saving products). We'll announce the winner this afternoon. Later edited to say: We double checked on our numbers and realized we had not factored in the three to four percent growth we have seen on our system over the last year. With that taken into account, the reduction in consumption during Earth Hour was more like one megawatt.
Community Involvement
Mar 25, 2013  Comment

Celebration of Swans 2013

 We'd like to give a shout out today to Rick Massie. His photo was selected for this year's Celebration of Swans poster. Yukon Energy sponsors the poster and we are delighted to see that his beautiful photograph was chosen. On a related note, we will once again this year be operating our swan cam, allowing you to view the swans from your computer. We hope to have it up and running by next week.
Community Involvement, Energy Conservation
Mar 25, 2013  Comment

And the Winner is…

 As promised, we have put the names of everyone who posted either on this blog or our Facebook page some information about what they did during Earth Hour. We have drawn a name and the winner is.....STEPHANIE DION. Congratulations Stephanie. We have a selection of energy saving products for you. We will be in touch as to how to deliver your prize to you.
Energy Supply, Reliability
Mar 26, 2013  Comment

Annual Check-Up

 People aren't the only ones who need a yearly check up; so do our hydro and diesel units. Shown here is a photo of one of our employees doing the annual mechanical and electricial preventative maintenance work at our Mayo B hydro plant. Below, a bird's eye view of one of the Mayo B hydro generators.

Regulatory
Apr 04, 2013  Comment

The Yukon Utilities Board Decision

 The body that regulates us, the Yukon Utilities Board, recently issued its order with regard to our 2012/13 general rate application.  The order is a complicated document that will take some time to review. We are doing that right now and will shortly be preparing what is known as a compliance filing (essentially showing the YUB that we are fulfilling all the requirements laid out in the order). Once the Utilities Board accepts our compliance filing, we will be able to explain to you the impact on your electricity bill. We will post a short summary on this blog of the impacts of the YUB's decision and will be happy to answer any questions you might have. We ask for your patience as we work our way through this detailed document.
Community Involvement
Apr 05, 2013  Comment

Touring Our Facilities

Yukon Energy offers school tours of our facilities on a regular basis. But once or twice a year, we also invite adult members of the public to come see our Whitehorse plant. The most recent tour of this kind took place last month in connection with World Water Day. Murray Lundberg was one of the people who came to see our facilities. He maintains a great blog called "The ExploreNorth Blog" and he has written about his visit to the Whitehorse Rapids Hydro Facility. We really enjoyed reading and we hope you do too. Thanks, Murray!
Community Involvement
Apr 08, 2013  Comment

The Swans Are Back and So Is the Swan Cam

 Our swan cam is up and running again for another season. Please note though that the swans are still a long ways off. They should move closer in the next week or two.
Community Involvement, Energy Conservation
Apr 15, 2013  Comment

Back by Popular Demand

Two years ago at the Lion's Yukon Trade Show, the theme of our booth was "Come Hang Out With Us". We promoted air drying by giving away clothes pegs, clotheslines and clothes drying racks. We also provided tips on air drying your clothes and offered general energy savings information. The promotion was so popular that we have decided to do it again. This year's Trade Show is taking place from May 3rd to 5th at the Canada Games Centre in Whitehorse. Once again we'll be encouraging you to ditch that dryer and show some love to your clothesline and clothes pins instead. Come see us for some free pins and enter our daily draws.  If you can't wait that long or if you're not going to be around that week-end, don't despair. We have one clothesline to give away as an Early Bird prize. All you have to do is post a note here telling us about the strangest thing you've ever dried on a clothes line. Everyone who takes part gets their name put in a draw for the clothesline and a package of wooden clothespins. You have until the last day of this month at midnight to enter. Photo from the 2011 Trade Show. Credit: www.archbould.com      

Energy Supply
Apr 09, 2013  Comment

What You Said About Wind Energy

 Last month we hosted a one-day workshop on the potential of wind energy in Yukon. We invited six wind experts to share their knowledge with about 70 members of the Yukon public. Here is a summary of what we heard.

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