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Despite being the only jurisdiction in Canada or the U.S. without an energy efficiency program, the province says it will be at least another year before they can offer incentives to homeowners, small businesses and municipalities due to the current economic woes.

Alberta Environment Minister Shannon Phillips said the NDP government is committed to a program, but it won’t be funded until 2017.

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“Our current fiscal situation is quite extreme so our ability to perhaps fund startups or pilots out of existing funds is somewhat limited, to be frank,” she said in an interview. “Our ability to undertake major new initiatives in the 2016 year is limited given our financial position.”

Her comments come after a new report by the Alberta Energy Efficiency Alliance shows that Alberta remains the only province or state without energy efficiency programs that the public can participate in.

It noted that no details of the promised programming have been released.