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Efficiency New Brunswick

Canadian crown corporation

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ5347431 ↗
Source-derived summary

Efficiency New Brunswick (more formally the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Agency of New Brunswick) was a crown corporation in the Canadian province of New Brunswick responsible for energy efficiency grants to New Brunswickers. The first president and CEO was Elizabeth Weir. In May 2012, Margaret-Ann Blaney resigned her position as Rothesay MLA to assume responsibility as new president and CEO.

Efficiency New Brunswick was merged into the provincial utility company NB Power in 2015, who now delivers efficiency programs centrally.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Efficiency New Brunswick” as canadian crown corporation. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2012, 2015—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Efficiency, Brunswick and Canadian can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Efficiency New Brunswick” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.