Councillors want new buildings to use renewable energy instead of fossil fuels for space heating and water heating.
Almost all new construction in Victoria — from single-family homes to office and residential towers — will be required to be “zero carbon” producers by 2025, meaning they can’t be heated with fossil fuels such as natural gas, propane or fuel oil.
The decision comes ahead of the province’s new building code and pollution guidelines, to be announced later this year. “Each new building will last more than 50 years, so raising the bar now is critical to meeting our long-term climate goals, and to preparing the taxpayers of the future to have less climate-related costs down the road.”
It will provide local governments with the ability to limit greenhouse emissions from new construction.
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