Efficiency Manitoba is apparently not living up to its name.

The new Crown corporation with a mandate to come up with ideas to conserve electricity and natural gas was supposed to submit its first plan on Tuesday.

But it now says it needs another month before it can submit proposals to the Public Utilities Board.

The provincial government says it wants more time to review the plan.

The corporation is to assume responsibility for delivering energy efficiency programming from Manitoba Hydro on April 1, 2020. Previously, Hydro marketed energy efficiency through Power Smart programs.