Experts Hope Ontario's Free Energy-Audit Project Can Spread Canada-Wide

Almost 14,000 assessments have been done to date and most companies usually find they can save $100,000 a year in efficiencies, said the University of Dayton's program director Kelly Kissock. The program's a no-brainer, Kissock said: Students benefit from experience in a burgeoning field, the companies get free help they often can't afford otherwise, utilities become more efficient and the environmental impact is often significant. "It's just a little bit of money in and they get this amazing service, for amazing amounts of energy efficiency," he said. "The manufacturing sector just loves this stuff; at the same time, my students here are in very high demand as soon as they graduate, because they have the skills that people need now. I have this long backlog of many more people that want assessments than I can do in a given year." ... http://www.canadianbusiness.com/markets/headline_news/article.jsp?content=b021706A

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