PROGRAMME STATUSThe Greener Homes Grant and Loan are closed — but nine programmes still require an EnerGuide evaluation · see what is open where you live
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NRCan Service Organization · Licence 9E · since 2015

We measure what your house actually costs to run.

EnerSolution is a licensed Service Organization. Our registered energy advisors carry out EnerGuide evaluations, commercial and industrial energy audits, and the reports that government and utility programmes accept as evidence — across Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba and Saskatchewan.

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9ENRCan licence number 5provinces, four offices 28programmes tracked and dated
EnerSolution energy advisors, on site An EnerSolution energy advisor carrying out a home energy evaluation
The EnerGuide rating scale, from net zero to high consumption NET ZERO HIGH CONSUMPTION A typical Canadian home Less energy, lower bills, warmer in February More energy, higher bills, colder rooms and draughts

EnerGuide rates a whole house on one scale. The evaluation is how a house gets a number on it.

Before anything else

The Greener Homes Grant and the $40,000 loan are gone.

A great many Canadian contractors are still advertising them. The grant took its final document on 31 December 2025. The loan is fully committed and NRCan states that no further applications can be approved. Enbridge HER+, Better Homes Kingston, HERA Edmonton, SaskPower's retrofit rebate and NRCan's industrial GIFMP have closed too.

We are telling you that at the top of our own home page, on a site that sells rebate work, because you will find out eventually and it may as well be now.

What has not gone away is the work. Nine programmes still require a pre- and post-retrofit EnerGuide evaluation, Ontario pays $600 towards the pair, Medicine Hat made both mandatory for the first time this year, and three mortgage insurers will refund a quarter of your insurance premium on the strength of a rating.

Closed — and still being advertised
FederalCanada Greener Homes GrantClosed. The final document deadline was 31 December 2025.ClosedFederalCanada Greener Homes LoanClosed. Funding is fully committed and no further applications can be approved.ClosedOntarioEnbridge Home Efficiency Rebate Plus (HER+)Closed. Every deadline expired on 31 December 2025.ClosedAlbertaHome Energy Retrofit Accelerator (HERA), EdmontonClosed — fully subscribed. Edmonton's CEIP is the live route.ClosedSaskatchewanSaskPower Home Efficiency Retrofit RebateClosed. The rebate ended in April 2026.ClosedFederalOil to Heat Pump AffordabilityClosed to new applicants. 31 July 2026 was the last day to apply.Closed

Checked 22 Sep 2026 · every entry linked to its source

What is actually open right now.

We check each of these against the issuing body's own published page and put the date of the check on it. Where a programme's own page publishes no amounts, we publish none either — which is why some of these are shorter than a competitor's version.

OntarioOntario Home Renovation Savings ProgramOpen. The assessment path pays $600 towards both evaluations.Open nowFederalCMHC Eco Plus, Sagen and Canada GuarantyOpen. All three refund 25% of the mortgage insurance premium.Open nowAlbertaClean Energy Improvement Program (CEIP)Open in more than twenty-five Alberta municipalities. Status varies by city.Open nowAlbertaHAT Smart — Medicine HatOpen for 2026 — and both EnerGuide evaluations are now mandatory.Open nowManitobaEfficiency Manitoba Home Energy Retrofit ProgramOpen. Paid per gigajoule saved, so a good retrofit is worth more.Open nowOntarioBetter Homes Ottawa Loan ProgramOpen. Up to $125,000 at a fixed rate over twenty years.Open nowAlbertaSEMI — Strategic Energy Management for IndustryWaitlists open on every activity. The audit stream pays up to $50,000 per facility.Open — waitlistFederalCMHC MLI SelectOpen. Energy efficiency points, and an energy advisor may sign the attestation.Open now

Not sure which apply to you? Tell us the postcode and what you are thinking of doing, and we will tell you what is open, what it pays, and whether you actually need an evaluation for it.

All 28 programmes →

What you are actually buying

An evaluation is a measurement, not an opinion.

Two to three hours on site. Every assembly measured, the mechanicals recorded, and a blower door test to establish the real air leakage rate rather than an assumed one. It goes into HOT2000, the federal modelling software, and comes back as a rating, a label and a report saying what to fix first.

Where heat leaves a typical older Canadian house 25–35% Attic and roof 20–35% Air leakage — the invisible one 15–25% Walls 10–15% Windows and doors 10–20% Basement and slab edge

Where the heat actually goes

This is the part that surprises people. In most older Canadian houses the attic and air leakage together lose more than the walls, the windows and the basement combined — and air leakage is invisible, which is why it gets ignored until somebody measures it.

It is also why the answer is so often not the thing you were about to buy. A new furnace in a leaky house is an efficient way to heat the outdoors.

Proportions shown are illustrative of a typical older detached Canadian house. Yours gets measured.

What the audit involves →

How a rebate-qualifying evaluation runs

Two visits, not one.

The commonest surprise for a first-time client: the programmes that pay best require an evaluation before the work and another one after it, frequently by the same advisor. Plan for both from the start and it is straightforward. Discover it afterwards and the rebate is gone.

The five stages of a rebate-qualifying energy evaluation 01 Evaluate
Two to three hours on site. Measured, not estimated.
 02 Report
Your rating, your label, and what to fix first.
 03 Retrofit
Your contractor, your choice. We do not sell the work.
 04 Re-evaluate
The second visit. This is what the programme pays against.
 05 Claim
The file goes in with the numbers that prove it.
Residential evaluationHome energy audit in progress
Residential evaluation
Going through the reportEnergy efficiency consultation with a homeowner
Going through the report
Net Zero Ready home programme mark
New build and net zero ready
BOMA Canada ENSPIRE programme mark
Commercial and institutional

Four kinds of client

What we do, and for whom.

Homeowners

EnerGuide home evaluations

The rating, the label and the upgrade report that rebate programmes accept. Plus a straight answer about whether your programme needs one.

Home energy audit → Builders

Modelling, F280 and certification

Design-stage energy modelling, CSA F280 load calculations, airtightness testing, ENERGY STAR and R-2000 certification through our licence.

Energy modelling → Commercial

ASHRAE Level 1, 2 and 3 audits

Audits, recommissioning, benchmarking and bylaw reporting, and the MLI Select modelling that moves mortgage terms on multi-unit buildings.

Commercial energy audit → Industrial

Process, compressed air and steam

Where the energy in a plant actually goes — and in Alberta, up to $50,000 towards the assessment itself.

Industrial audit →

Why the licence matters

Not every energy report is one a programme will accept.

An EnerGuide rating has to be produced by a registered energy advisor who has passed NRCan's examinations, working under a licensed Service Organization. The licence — not the individual — is what issues the label. That is the structural reason a programme accepts our file and not a home inspection report.

Ours is Organization Licence Number 9E. It is the oldest thing this company owns and the reason the rest of it works.

  • We sell no insulation, windows or heat pumps. The advice is not a sales route to anything, which is the entire point of an independent assessment.
  • We publish what is closed as prominently as what is open. Six of the twenty-eight programmes we track need no evaluation at all, and we say so on their pages.
  • Every programme claim on this site links to its source and carries the date we last checked it.
Head office
Unit 36 – 17665 Leslie St
Newmarket, ON  L3Y 3E3
Greater Toronto
Unit 205 – 115 Apple Creek Blvd
Markham, ON  L3R 6C9
Alberta
4620 Manila Rd SE
Calgary, AB  T2G 4B7
British Columbia
Unit 15 – 1975 McCallum Rd
Abbotsford, BC  V2S 3N3

The instrument that settles it

A blower door measuring the air leakage rate of a house ACH50 6.8 attic hatch rim joist window frames basement penetrations

A blower door depressurises the house to 50 pascals and measures how much air the fan has to move to hold it there. That number is the difference between an opinion about draughts and a figure a programme will accept.

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Tell us about the house.

Five short steps. We will come back with what it costs, when we can get to you, and which programmes your address is actually eligible for.

What kind of building is it?

This decides almost everything else — which programmes apply, which advisor comes, and how long it takes.

Building type
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