Closed: Canada Greener Homes Grant. December 31, 2025, was the last day to submit your documents. Requests submitted by the deadline will continue to be processed.
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Who was eligible
Canadian homeowners must have met the following criteria:
- prove ownership by providing a property tax bill number (This number could be found on municipal property tax documents)
- prove the property was their primary residence with a valid piece of government-issued ID with the matching address, such as a driver’s licence
If the property tax bill number was not available, alternative documents could have been accepted (e.g. for rural areas, Newfoundland and Labrador, First Nations on-reserve).
The following groups were also eligible applicants under the initiative:
- Indigenous governments or organizations (e.g. band councils, land claim organizations)
- Housing management bodies and other representative or Indigenous service delivery organizations with formal partnerships with Indigenous governments or organizations
These existing applicants were eligible to register multiple homes, including homes that were not the owner’s primary residence. The homes registered must be owned by the applicant and be occupied by Indigenous households.
To find resources and other funding opportunities for Indigenous households and communities, visit: Other programs for Indigenous homeowners
If you lived in the Yukon, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Nunavik and Nunatsiavut, or in an off-grid community, you could find what was offered in your region at: Canadian homeowners living in the North and off-grid communities.
Eligibility considerations
I already had an EnerGuide evaluation and/or completed retrofits.
In the application form, there was an option to select that you already completed a pre-retrofit evaluation.
- If you conducted an evaluation before April 1, 2020, you needed a new evaluation.
- If you conducted an evaluation between April 1, 2020, and November 30, 2020, you could have used the evaluation to participate in the initiative, but you would not have received the funding contribution for that evaluation. To receive the evaluation contributions and the grant, your eligible home retrofits must have occurred on or after December 1, 2020.
- If you conducted an evaluation between December 1, 2020, and June 30, 2021, you could have received the contribution for both the pre- and post-retrofit evaluations and for the retrofits if you completed at least one eligible retrofit on or after December 1, 2020. In this case, the retrofit did not need to be recommended by your energy advisor in their report.
- If the evaluations occurred on or after July 1, 2021, you could have received a grant for both the evaluations and the retrofits if you completed at least one retrofit that was both eligible and recommended by your energy advisor in their report.
For homeowners who participated in either the RénoClimat program (Quebec) or the Home Energy Assessment (Nova Scotia), your respective provincial program worked directly with Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) to identify eligible participants. NRCan contacted eligible homeowners who were approved to participate in the grant process.
My home is newly built.
New homes were not eligible for the grant. Newly built homes are defined as homes that are no more than six months old, based on the date of occupancy by the first homeowner. This criterion was in effect at the time of application.
I am a new owner of an existing home.
Newly purchased homes were eligible with a new home evaluation. Any evaluation done by a previous owner was not valid.
Canada Greener Homes Initiative
- Oil to Heat Pump Affordability program: helps low- to median-income homeowners switch from oil heating to an eligible electric heat pump system. Details vary by province and territory.
- Canada Greener Homes Affordability Program: helps low- to median-income homeowners and tenants reduce their energy bills and greenhouse gas emissions through no-cost home retrofits, delivered through provincial and territorial partners, with additional support for Indigenous organizations.
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