{"id":2073,"date":"2015-11-20T03:25:51","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T02:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/c3e.ca\/en\/?page_id=2073"},"modified":"2019-06-04T15:35:34","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T20:35:34","slug":"business-sector","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/c3e.ca\/en\/business-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff;background-position: left top;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:20px;padding-right:20px;padding-bottom:20px;padding-left:20px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last fusion-column-no-min-height\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><h2><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">A promising sector in terms of innovation<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 1.5;\"><strong>Energy efficiency<\/strong> consists in making the best possible use of the energy available to obtain better energy performance. It is improved when less energy is used to produce a given good or service<\/span><span style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 1.5;\">:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">waste reduction<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">optimum use of existing infrastructure<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">recourse to new technologies <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politiqueenergetique.gouv.qc.ca\/themes-2\/energy-efficiency-and-innovation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(1)<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/c3e.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dollarphotoclub_71741815_4transports.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1570 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/c3e.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dollarphotoclub_71741815_4transports-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"Logistics background\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/c3e.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dollarphotoclub_71741815_4transports-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/c3e.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dollarphotoclub_71741815_4transports-1024x773.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/c3e.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dollarphotoclub_71741815_4transports.jpg 4050w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The transportation sector includes <strong>all types<\/strong><strong> of transport: rail, marine, road and air<\/strong>. This sector is responsible on its own for 45% and 24% of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in Qu\u00e9bec and Canada respectively. This makes it the cornerstone in order to act concretely on reducing GHG emissions and the fight against climate changes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Among the main trends in energy efficiency of transportation are found most energy efficient vehicles using, for example, an electric or hybrid motor and\/or lighter materials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">In addition to transport, energy efficiency is applicable to several areas affecting directly or indirectly the lives of individuals and corporations, including industrial processes, information and communication technologies (electronics and photonics), bioenergy, building and new energy technologies. Some funded enterprises in the C3E&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/c3e.ca\/en\/portfolio\/\">first financing\u00a0phase<\/a> have developed innovations in these sectors.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0Useful Links<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrcan.gc.ca\/energy\/efficiency\/transportation\/7681\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Energy efficiency of\u00a0transportation<\/a><\/span><\/strong> (Natural Resources Canada)<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.efficaciteenergetique.gouv.qc.ca\/en\/home\/#.Vk8-UHYvfRY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Minist\u00e8re de l&#8217;\u00c9nergie et Ressources naturelles<\/a><\/span><\/strong> (MERN Qu\u00e9bec)<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politiqueenergetique.gouv.qc.ca\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Quebec Energy Policy\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.transportselectriques.gouv.qc.ca\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Transportation Electrification Action Plan<\/span> <\/a><\/strong>(Quebec)<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iea.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">International Energy Agency<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mto.gov.on.ca\/english\/vehicles\/electric\/index.shtml#menu-electric-home-homemenulink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Electric Vehicles <\/a><\/span><\/strong>(Ministry of Transportation, Ontario)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">(1)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politiqueenergetique.gouv.qc.ca\/themes-2\/energy-efficiency-and-innovation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.politiqueenergetique.gouv.qc.ca\/themes-2\/energy-efficiency-and-innovation\/\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c3e.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2073"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c3e.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c3e.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c3e.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c3e.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2073"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/c3e.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2964,"href":"https:\/\/c3e.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2073\/revisions\/2964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c3e.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}