When you find a career with a purpose, you consider yourself lucky. When that purpose is helping to make customers’ homes more energy efficient for lower overall carbon emissions, we are the lucky ones. Ned Georgy is a senior manager in program management. Basically, he helps customers make their homes more energy efficient with rebates, offers and low- and no-cost upgrades.

Despite Ned’s sunny disposition, we discovered he prefers to be on the colder side of things, like escaping the heat by hiking in the mountains. We sat down with Ned to ask the tough questions: What drew you to FortisBC? Tacos or pasta? And, what kind of energy-efficiency programs do you want people to know about?

Hint: Even though Ned mentions many different programs, all of them can help reduce your energy use.

What excites me about my job is helping our customers have more energy-efficient homes.

Ned Georgy, senior manager, program management

Did you know? We have been approved by the British Columbia Utilities Commission to invest a record $697.6 million¹ in energy-efficiency initiatives, which will help Ned and his team build the next generation of energy-saving programs. In fact, in 2024, our conservation and energy management programs achieved annual GHG emissions reductions of 109,123² tCO₂e, which is like taking over 33,000 gasoline-powered cars off the road.³

Helping customers use energy more efficiently is an important part of Ned and his team’s work each and every day. By making higher-efficiency choices more affordable and accessible, we can help save energy and reduce GHG emissions. We’re pretty lucky to have people like Ned on our team. “What I’d like people to know is that there are a number of solutions that FortisBC has,” he says. “Lots of people are unaware of the number of different types of rebate programs, even free programs, to participate in that can really make a difference in their bills and therefore their livelihoods.”

¹Source: FortisBC 2023 Sustainability Report, page 18. This is a combined amount for both the gas and electricity utilities and includes inflation. When a carryover of $2.778 million is added to the (unrounded) amount of $694.831, the total combined amount becomes $697.609 million.

²Source: FortisBC Natural Gas Demand-Side Management – 2024 Annual Report, page 1

³Calculated using the Natural Resources Canada greenhouse gas equivalencies calculator.