Canada Greener Homes Grant 2026: Closed, What Replaced It

Canada Greener Homes: What's Closed and What's Open

Three of the four federal Canada Greener Homes programs are closed to new households as of October 29, 2026, according to NRCan, and the fourth (the Affordability Program) only takes applications through provincial partners. Here's the status of each, with the dates that still matter.

Natural Resources Canada program pages, checked October 29, 2026.

The Greener Homes Grant was a program for everyone, regardless of income. NRCan's February 2024 update explains why it changed: even with a $5,600 grant, many households couldn't pay the rest of a retrofit, which NRCan estimated at $13,500 on average. The replacement targets low-to-median-income households and pays the whole bill instead of a share.

NRCan's grant, Affordability Program and OHPA pages now say these programs are moving to Environment and Climate Change Canada, and they list enviroinfo@ec.gc.ca for questions. NRCan's Initiative page also lists Canada Greener Affordable Housing, for community and affordable housing providers, as closed: January 20, 2026 was the last day to apply.

If You Already Applied: What You Can Still Claim

Most people who still search "Canada Greener Homes" have an open file. The deadlines differ by program, and one has already passed.

Greener Homes Grant applicants. The deadline to finish your journey and request your grant was December 31, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. ET, according to the Government of Canada's NRCan program page. If you submitted your post-retrofit evaluation and documents by then, your file can still be paid: NRCan's March 2026 figures show 19,083 applications still being processed. If you missed the deadline, NRCan's pages don't describe any extension or appeal route. Log in to the Canada Greener Homes portal to check status, or email enviroinfo@ec.gc.ca.

Greener Homes Loan borrowers. If your loan was approved, NRCan says the funding remains available. Finish the retrofits listed in your application, get a post-retrofit evaluation (your service organization uploads the results, which can take up to 30 days), then sign in to the loan portal and choose "Request Funding" with your final invoices. NRCan says the loan won't increase if your final costs come in higher, and the money is deposited about 10 days after the funding request is approved. The loan page doesn't give a final date for funding requests, so call the loan line at 1-866-292-9517 if your retrofits are delayed.

OHPA applicants who applied by July 31, 2026. All work must be completed and paid for, and your final receipts plus the attestation form signed by your contractor must be uploaded to the Canada Greener Homes portal by January 31, 2027, according to NRCan's OHPA page. Program officers may contact you to arrange a verification visit. If you live in a co-delivering province, follow your provincial program's deadline instead.

What's Still Open: Provincial Programs

Provincial and utility programs are where new money is in 2026, and they work differently from the old federal grant. Some are income-tested and pay the whole cost through a contractor; others are rebates for anyone.

No-cost retrofits for lower-income households (CGHAP). NRCan says the Government of Canada isn't accepting household applications for the Affordability Program; you apply to the program in your province. As of October 29, 2026, NRCan lists:

• British Columbia: BC Hydro or FortisBC, depending on which utility serves your home.
• Manitoba: Efficiency Manitoba's energy efficiency assistance program.
• Newfoundland and Labrador: takeCHARGE.
• Nova Scotia: Efficiency Nova Scotia's HomeWarming program for lower-income households, and the African Nova Scotian Communities Retrofit program for homeowners in eligible communities.
• Prince Edward Island: the province's home insulation programs.
• Quebec: Hydro-Québec's program for modest-income households.

NRCan says it will list more provincial and territorial programs as they become available. If yours isn't listed, there's no federal Affordability Program route for you yet. If you qualify on income, this is the best route available: the work costs you nothing out of pocket.

Ontario: Home Renovation Savings. For most middle-income Ontario homeowners, this is the best bet now that the federal grant is gone. Save on Energy and Enbridge Gas, with Ontario government support, run Home Renovation Savings (opens in a new tab) for homes heated with electricity, gas, oil, propane or wood. Single upgrades don't need an energy assessment: up to $7,500 for a cold climate air source heat pump, up to $12,000 for a ground source heat pump, up to $10,000 for solar panels and battery storage, and $100 for a smart thermostat. Bundles need an assessment ($600 back) and two or more upgrades, with up to $7,700 for insulation, $100 per window or door opening, up to $250 for air sealing and $500 for a heat pump water heater. The heat pump must be on NRCan's qualified products list.

British Columbia: Energy Savings Program. The Province's Better Homes BC Energy Savings Program (opens in a new tab) lists income-based heat pump rebates of up to $13,000 for ground-oriented homes and up to $5,000 for condo and apartment units, plus up to $3,500 for heat pump water heaters. You pre-register, use a registered contractor, and the contractor receives the rebate. The page we checked carried a notice that it isn't being updated during an election period, so confirm the amount with the program before you sign a contract.

Quebec: Rénoclimat. The Government of Quebec's Rénoclimat program (opens in a new tab) changed on October 1, 2026. A pre-retrofit energy evaluation is no longer mandatory, the work must be done by a licensed contractor, and a new Adaptation stream helps owners protect homes against flooding. If your home already had an evaluation under the old rules, Quebec says you can finish the work and get your post-retrofit evaluation by March 31, 2027 to stay under the old terms.

Oil-heated homes in co-delivering provinces. In Ontario, NRCan says eligible oil-heated homeowners can get a heat pump installed at no cost, worth up to $25,000 ($15,000 federal and up to $10,000 provincial), through the IESO, with no money paid to the homeowner except a $250 bonus cheque. Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, British Columbia and Yukon also co-deliver OHPA, and NRCan says to check each provincial program for deadlines and closures.

Grantsights Analysis of Canada Greener Homes Grant Results

The Greener Homes Grant paid about $1.8 billion to 409,114 households by March 2026, an average of $4,430 each, according to the Government of Canada's Canada Greener Homes Grant at a glance page. Six in 10 participants installed a heat pump. Grantsights analysis of the provincial breakdown shows Ontario and Quebec received 65.8% of all grants paid, while the three territories together received 440.

Grantsights analysis of NRCan, Canada Greener Homes Grant at a glance, data as of March 2026. Averages are derived from NRCan's rounded provincial totals.

Two patterns stand out. Ontario and Quebec together took two-thirds of all grants. And the provinces where windows and doors were the top retrofit (Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan, according to NRCan) had lower averages than the heat pump provinces such as British Columbia and Newfoundland and Labrador, which fits NRCan's February 2024 explanation that heavy heat pump uptake pushed the average grant above its original projections.

Nationally, NRCan's top five retrofits were heat pumps (230,000), windows and doors (146,765), home insulation (74,991), air sealing (72,635) and solar panels (38,634). NRCan says the average participating household saves $386 a year on energy costs.

The Oil to Heat Pump Affordability program is smaller but pays far more per home. By February 2026, according to the Government of Canada's NRCan progress update, there were 54,007 applications and 31,379 grants issued worth $359.3 million, an average grant of $11,451. A case in point for how much demand outran payments: Nova Scotia had 20,742 OHPA applications but 10,360 grants issued.

Grantsights analysis of NRCan's Greener Homes Initiative progress update, February 2026. Provinces with fewer than 20 applications are left out. An application can still be in progress, so grants per application isn't an approval rate.

What NRCan Doesn't Tell You About the Greener Homes Grant

NRCan's pages give the closing dates. Reading them alongside the program statistics shows four things that change what you should do next.

1. There's no federal grant for most homeowners any more. The replacement program is income-tested and run by provinces, and NRCan lists only six provinces with Affordability Program routes. A middle- or higher-income household in a province without its own rebate program now has no federal grant for windows, insulation or a heat pump. If you're in that position, provincial and utility rebates are the best route, and the Ontario, B.C. and Quebec programs above are the largest ones we checked.

2. Plenty of pages still say the grant is open. Search results on October 29, 2026 still included third-party pages titled as 2026 Canada Greener Homes Grant application guides. That's out of date: NRCan says new applications ended in February 2024 and the last document deadline passed on December 31, 2025. Treat any offer to "apply for the Greener Homes Grant for you" as a red flag.

3. Starting work before approval is the most common way to lose money. The Greener Homes Loan page says work that's already started or completed isn't eligible and strongly recommends not signing binding contracts until a decision is made. BC's Energy Savings Program also has you pre-register and get a code before installation, and it pays the rebate to the contractor, so check each program's order of steps before any work begins.

4. Your old EnerGuide evaluation may not carry over. Quebec's Rénoclimat changed on October 1, 2026, and its transition period for old-rules files ends March 31, 2027. Ontario's bundled rebates start with a home energy assessment. Ask each program whether an earlier Greener Homes evaluation counts before you pay for a new one.

How to Apply Now, and Realistic Timelines

There's nothing to apply for at the federal level unless you're finishing an existing OHPA or loan file. For new support, use these steps:

1. Check your income and heating fuel. Income-tested programs (the Affordability Program partners, BC's Energy Savings Program and OHPA where it's still open) use household size and income. Oil heating opens extra routes in co-delivering provinces.
2. Find your provincial program. Start from NRCan's financial incentives by province and territory (opens in a new tab) directory, then confirm on the provincial or utility site.
3. Pre-register or get your assessment first. Don't sign a contract until the program confirms you're eligible.
4. Use a registered or licensed contractor where the program requires one (BC and Quebec both do), and keep every invoice.
5. Expect the post-retrofit step to take weeks. Under the federal loan, NRCan said uploading post-retrofit results could take up to 30 days, so ask your program how long its final check takes.

If you're in British Columbia and own your home, also make sure you're claiming the annual BC home owner grant, which is separate from any energy program and has to be claimed every year.

Energy Retrofit Scams: How to Spot a Fake

Energy rebates attract scammers, and the end of the federal grant has made the confusion worse. NRCan's own warnings are specific:

• The government doesn't come to your door. NRCan says the Government of Canada, NRCan and its brands (ENERGY STAR and EnerGuide) never solicit by phone or email or go door-to-door asking to enter your home to inspect, sell or rent heating and cooling products.
• Nobody is approved to contact you. NRCan says it hasn't approved third parties to make unsolicited contact with homeowners about the Affordability Program or OHPA, and for OHPA, contractors, energy advisors and service organizations may not apply for you under any circumstances.
• No deposit, no proxies. The Greener Homes Loan page says CMHC and the loan program never ask applicants for a deposit, and nobody but the applicant may use the loan portal.
• Don't sign at the door. NRCan's guide to recognizing energy scams (opens in a new tab) warns that door-to-door contracts can say one thing on your copy and another on the carbon copies the seller keeps.
• Report it. Report suspected fraud to the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre (opens in a new tab) and your local police, and tell NRCan if someone claims to represent ENERGY STAR.

Similar Programs in Other Countries

If you're comparing systems, or moving, other countries still run national home energy grants that look like Greener Homes did. Our guides cover the UK's Boiler Upgrade Scheme for heat pumps, Ireland's SEAI home energy grants and New Zealand's Warmer Kiwi Homes grant. None of them is available to Canadian homes.

Sources Checked

All pages read on October 29, 2026.

• NRCan, Canada Greener Homes Initiative (opens in a new tab)
• NRCan, Closed: Canada Greener Homes Grant (opens in a new tab)
• NRCan, Closed: Canada Greener Homes Loan (opens in a new tab)
• NRCan, Oil to Heat Pump Affordability program (opens in a new tab) and For applicants in participating provinces and territories (opens in a new tab)
• NRCan, Canada Greener Homes Affordability Program (opens in a new tab)
• NRCan, Highlights and program updates (opens in a new tab), Canada Greener Homes Grant at a glance (March 2026) (opens in a new tab), February 2026 progress update (opens in a new tab) and February 2024 update (opens in a new tab)
• NRCan, Financial incentives by province and territory (opens in a new tab) and How to recognize energy scams (opens in a new tab)
• Save on Energy, Home Renovation Savings Program (opens in a new tab) and homerenovationsavings.ca (opens in a new tab)
• Better Homes BC, Energy Savings Program (opens in a new tab)
• Government of Quebec, Aide financière Rénoclimat (opens in a new tab) and Rénoclimat changes and Adaptation stream (opens in a new tab)
• Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre (opens in a new tab)