Home Renovation Savings, Natural Gas Heated Homes (Enbridge Stream)
by IESO / Enbridge, Home Renovation Savings Program
Also known as: Home Efficiency Rebate Plus · HER+ · Home Efficiency Rebate
Natural-gas-heated homes (active Enbridge account) access Home Renovation Savings through the assessment-based Enbridge stream: up to $7,700 for insulation, $100 per window/door opening, up to $250 for air sealing, $500 for a heat pump water heater, and $600 back on the required energy assessments. Heat pump rebates exist for gas homes too, but at $2,000-$3,000, the $7,500-$12,000 tier is reserved for electricity/oil/propane/wood-heated homes. Income-qualified gas households can instead get FREE insulation and draft proofing via Home Winterproofing.
Key facts
- Amount
- Up to $12,000 Assessment-based envelope stream: insulation (attic, wall, foundation, exposed floor) up to $7,700; air sealing up to $250; windows/doors $100 per rough opening; heat pump water heater $500; $600 back on the pre/post home energy assessments. Heat pumps for gas-heated homes (Enbridge customers): cold climate air source up to $2,000, ground source $3,000, far below the $7,500/$12,000 tier for non-gas homes. Standalone smart thermostat $100 and appliance rebates up to $200 also available.
Against all tracked amounts, $1,000 to $500,000,000, logarithmic.
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Heat pumps Up to $12,000
- Instrument
- Rebate
- Status
- Open, continuous intake no fixed deadline; approvals on the funder's cycle
- Who qualifies
- Property owners and developers
- homeowner
- Enbridge Gas residential customer with an active account, home primarily heated by a natural gas furnace or boiler
- Province-wide where Enbridge serves; Northern Ontario communities on gas qualify
- Detached, semi-detached, row/townhome or mobile home on permanent foundation; condos, apartments and stacked townhomes excluded (reported); home occupied 6+ months (reported)
- Envelope rebates (insulation, air sealing, windows) require a pre- and post-retrofit home energy assessment ($600 back); heat pump rebates do not
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Be an Enbridge Gas residential customer with an active account and primarily heat your home with a natural gas furnace or boiler
- Where
- Algoma District · Cochrane District · Greater Sudbury (single-tier census division) · Kenora District · Manitoulin District · District Municipality of Muskoka · Nipissing District · Parry Sound District · Rainy River District · Sudbury District (excl. Greater Sudbury) · Thunder Bay District · Timiskaming District
11 of 11 Northern Ontario districts are eligible for this program. A filled dot is eligible, an outline is not.
- Built for
- Homeowners, energy retrofits
How do you apply?
- Book a home energy assessment through the program (for envelope-upgrade rebates; $600 back across pre/post visits)
- Complete recommended upgrades, insulation, air sealing, windows/doors, heat pump water heater, using receipts/documentation
- Post-retrofit assessment verifies the work
- Rebates paid through the Enbridge-delivered stream; standalone rebates (heat pump, smart thermostat) skip the assessment
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officially launched on January 28, 2025
Can you combine this with other funding?
- Home Renovation Savings, Homes Heated with Electricity, Oil, Propane or Wood, Mutually exclusive heat-pump tiers by primary heating fuel: gas-heated homes get $2,000/$3,000, not the $7,500/$12,000 non-gas tier. Envelope rebates in this stream can be combined with standalone rebates (thermostat, appliances) on the same home.
Common questions
I heat with gas, can I get the $7,500 heat pump rebate?
No. Gas-heated homes get up to $2,000 for a cold-climate air-source heat pump and $3,000 for ground-source. The $7,500/$12,000 tier is only for homes whose primary heat is electricity, oil, propane or wood.
Is the energy assessment free?
Not free, but rebated: the program pays $600 back on the pre- and post-retrofit assessments required for the envelope-upgrade stream. Standalone rebates (heat pumps, smart thermostats, appliances) skip the assessment entirely.
What happened to the Enbridge HER+ / Greener Homes program?
The federal Canada Greener Homes Grant (co-delivered in Ontario with Enbridge's HER+) closed to new applicants in 2024. Home Renovation Savings, launched January 28, 2025, is the successor, same Enbridge delivery for gas homes, now co-funded with the IESO under Ontario's 2025-2027 efficiency plan.
Are condos or rentals eligible?
Reported program terms limit eligibility to detached, semi-detached, row/townhomes and mobile homes on permanent foundations, occupied 6+ months; condos, apartments and stacked townhomes are excluded. Rental heat pumps have their own rebate track at the gas-tier amounts.
Other streams of Home Renovation Savings Program
Funders publish these as one program with several streams. The terms differ by stream.
Guides that cover this program
Notes on this record
Core dollar figures verified on homerenovationsavings.ca 2026-08-17; home-type/occupancy restrictions marked reported (sourced from program terms summarized by contractors, not re-verified on the official T&C PDF). The income-qualified Home Winterproofing Program (free insulation/draft proofing for gas customers) is mentioned in the quick answer but is a separate offer worth its own record later.
Apply
Apply on the funder’s site and confirm current terms there: