What it did, what it left behind, and what its closure means for anyone starting now.
The Canada Greener Homes Grant committed roughly $1.8 billion, reached more than 400,000 households at an average grant of about $4,430, and closed to new applications in February 2024 with a final document deadline of 31 December 2025. It is over.
The lasting effect was not the retrofits. It was the profession. The grant required a pre-retrofit and a post-retrofit EnerGuide evaluation, which created a national workforce of registered energy advisors where there had been a small specialist one — and taught several hundred thousand Canadians what a blower door is.
A great deal of that workforce left. NRCan has since closed intake for new Service Organization licences entirely, in both the EnerGuide Rating System and ENERGY STAR for New Homes, on the basis that there are currently enough to meet demand. That is a reasonable read of a shrunken market and it also means the door into this profession is now narrower than it was.
Three things. The evaluation is still the gateway to most serious programme money, so the skill has not devalued. The money has moved from federal to provincial and municipal, so the answer now depends on your address rather than your country. And the single largest remaining federal offer — the twenty-five per cent mortgage insurance premium refund from CMHC, Sagen and Canada Guaranty — is barely claimed at all, because nobody is advertising it.
Programme details in this post were checked on 22 Sep 2026 against each issuing body's own published page. Programmes change without notice — the maintained version of all of this lives on the programme list, which carries the date of the last check and a link to every source.
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Licence 9E
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.