Cogeneration is a back to the future technology. The idea is simple run a big hot engine, generate electricity right in your building and use the heat to heat it. Most modern power plants actually turn heat into a form of pollution that heats up lakes and rivers instead of our homes and buildings. This week we visit the Centennial Building in Calgary, Alberta to take a look at its 370 kilowatt generator that provides electricity and nearly all of the heat for an office tower. Payback? Very fast. http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/64-urban-cogeneration

Cogeneration is a back to the future technology. The idea is simple run a big hot engine, generate electricity right in your building and use the heat to heat it. Most modern power plants actually turn heat into a form of pollution that heats up lakes and rivers instead of our homes and buildings. This week we visit the Centennial Building in Calgary, Alberta to take a look at its 370 kilowatt generator that provides electricity and nearly all of the heat for an office tower. Payback? Very fast. http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/64-urban-cogeneration

Amelie Caron is a high-performance building consultant and one of the people who helped make the Belgravia Green net-zero home in Edmonton a reality. Learn how this 1,500 square foot home gets 50 per cent of its heat from south facing windows and a polished concrete floor this week at Green Energy Futures. http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/62-power-passive-solar-and-thermal-mass

Amelie Caron is a high-performance building consultant and one of the people who helped make the Belgravia Green net-zero home in Edmonton a reality. Learn how this 1,500 square foot home gets 50 per cent of its heat from south facing windows and a polished concrete floor this week at Green Energy Futures. http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/62-power-passive-solar-and-thermal-mass

Coming up next week on CKUA's Green Energy Futures: Passive solar energy can provide half of a home's heating needs from sunshine streaming through the windows for free! That's Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday on the CKUA Radio Network in Alberta.

Coming up next week on CKUA's Green Energy Futures: Passive solar energy can provide half of a home's heating needs from sunshine streaming through the windows for free! That's Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday on the CKUA Radio Network in Alberta.

How plain vanilla energy efficiency programs could save Albertans $1.5 billion and get Alberta 27 megatonnes of emissions reductions, halfway to its greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets. We talk to Jesse Row of the Alberta Energy Efficiency Alliance.

How plain vanilla energy efficiency programs could save Albertans $1.5 billion and get Alberta 27 megatonnes of emissions reductions, halfway to its greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets. We talk to Jesse Row of the Alberta Energy Efficiency Alliance.

Alberta has a small carbon tax and the money collected goes into a green technology fund that invests in greenhouse gas reducing projects. This mechanism, called the Climate Change Emissions Management Corporation has achieved large emissions reductions by investing in renewable energy projects. Learn how the fund works and about some of the projects they've invested in this week on Green Energy Futures. http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/61-learn-about-albertas-green-technology-fund-climate-change-emissions-management-corporatio

Alberta has a small carbon tax and the money collected goes into a green technology fund that invests in greenhouse gas reducing projects. This mechanism, called the Climate Change Emissions Management Corporation has achieved large emissions reductions by investing in renewable energy projects. Learn how the fund works and about some of the projects they've invested in this week on Green Energy Futures. http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/61-learn-about-albertas-green-technology-fund-climate-change-emissions-management-corporatio