Receive $5,000 in rebates for improving
energy efficiency

With the Ontario Home Energy Savings program, you can receive up to $5,000 in grants for renovations that improve the energy-efficiency of your property (residential AND commercial properties qualify).

Ontario Home Energy Savings Program

Chances are your home is leaking energy. A lot of energy and a lot of money. To help homeowners save energy, save money and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the Provincial Government has created the Ontario Home Energy Savings Program. If you live in Ontario and own a single family home you are eligible for the program. A single family home is defined as a detached or semi-detached home or a low-rise, multi-unit residential building that is three stories or less and less than 600 square meters.

The Ontario Home Energy Savings Program awards homeowners with helping to pay for a Home Energy Audit and providing rebates of up to $5,000 for home energy improvements. The program has two (2) components.

1. Home Energy Audit Program
- will help pay for a Home Energy Audit that will find your home’s energy leaks and identify renovations you can make to lower your energy bills. The Government of Ontario will pay 50% of your Home Energy Audit, up to $150.

A Home Energy Audit shows you how your home uses energy and where it is being leaked. It identifies improvements you can make to your home’s heating, cooling, hot water heating and other energy uses that could result in hundreds of dollars in energy savings each year.

The audit will explain your home's energy use — attic to basement. A typical audit involves the following steps:

• A walk-through assessment of your home’s insulation, heating and cooling systems and other energy uses
• A “blower door” depressurization test to identify leaks and drafts
• A personalized Energy Efficiency Evaluation Report

2. Home Energy Retrofit Program
- awards homeowners with rebates of up to $5,000 for home energy improvements. Change drafty windows and doors, improve your insulation, replace that energy-guzzling old furnace and complete other retrofits suggested in your audit report and you could qualify. This matches up to $5,000 available from the federal government through the ecoENERGY Retrofit Home Grant program — for a total of up to $10,000.

Remember, there are two (2) provincial government savings programs to apply for:

1. Federal ecoENERGY Retrofit Home Grants program
2. Ontario Home Energy Savings Program