It's been almost one year since Alberta's Energy Efficiency Program came into effect, and those organizing the program are happy with the response.

CEO of the program Monica Curtis shared a couple of the biggest highlights from 2017.

"We've had over 150,000 Alberta residents choose to participate in one or more of our residential programs. We've seen our retail program with over 9 million individual energy efficient products installed in residents' homes."

On top of those numbers, Curtis said that 1,200 businesses and non-profit groups applied for funding to improve their HVAC and lightning systems, which resulted in $3.5 million in rebates and 40,000 gigajoules of energy saved.

Combining businesses and households, over $300 million was saved in energy costs over the year. Curtis explained how they came to that number.

"The calculation of the energy savings and then based on Alberta's retail rate for that particular segment, whether it's a business rate or a residential rate."

While the numbers show a great success for the Energy Efficiency program, there are those in the province that are skeptical including members of the opposition, who have opposed the government's climate leadership plan and carbon tax which helps fund the efficiency program.

Curtis said when she looks back at the response to the program over the past twelve months, it shows that many Albertans are embracing the need to be energy efficient.

"When you see the value that these programs are delivering, there is that interest in Albertans broadly in participating in these kinds of programs and really making sure that they are being efficient with their use of energy resources."