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Writing about this properly.

Every post here was rewritten in September 2026, because most of what was on this blog described programmes that have since closed.

A blog on a rebate site ages badly. Ours had posts describing the Canada Greener Homes Grant as current a year after it took its last document, which on a site whose product is knowing what is open is worse than having no blog at all. So all of it was rewritten, and every programme claim in it now carries the date it was checked and a link to the source.

22 Sep 2026

Energy audits and rebates in Canada: what is left in 2026

The map changed completely in eighteen months. Here is what it looks like now.

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22 Sep 2026

Who actually pays for the energy audit?

In several provinces, not you. Here is where the evaluation itself is subsidised.

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22 Sep 2026

What separates a useful energy audit from a box-ticking one

Four things to ask before you book anybody, including us.

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22 Sep 2026

Attic insulation: still the best first move in most Canadian houses

Why it beats almost everything else, what it pays, and the mistake that wastes it.

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22 Sep 2026

Exterior wall insulation: the big one, and the one with conditions

The highest-value envelope measure, and why it needs an assessment before anybody quotes.

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22 Sep 2026

Air source heat pumps in Canada: what the rebates pay and what the sizing has to be

The most-subsidised measure in the country, and the one most often installed wrong.

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22 Sep 2026

Getting the most out of a rebate programme without gaming it

Sequencing, bundling, and the deadlines that actually catch people out.

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22 Sep 2026

The Greener Homes Loan is closed. What replaced it, honestly

Three municipal loans that are genuinely as good, and where they run.

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22 Sep 2026

The Greener Homes Grant, in hindsight

What it did, what it left behind, and what its closure means for anyone starting now.

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22 Sep 2026

A straight walkthrough of a rebate-qualifying retrofit

What actually happens, in order, from first phone call to money in the account.

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22 Sep 2026

Ground source heat pumps: the highest rebate in Canada, and the hardest to get right

$12,000 in Ontario, a twenty-five year asset, and a design nobody verifies.

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22 Sep 2026

Solar in Canada in 2026: what is still paid for

Ontario pays up to $10,000 with storage. Edmonton's rebate is gone. The envelope still comes first.

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22 Sep 2026

Storage is the part that changed

Why Ontario ties its solar rebate to a battery, and what that says about where this is going.

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Find out what your house actually costs to run.

A measured EnerGuide evaluation by a registered advisor, a report you can act on, and an honest answer about which programmes are open where you live.