Canada-wide · audit-first home energy upgrades

Know your home before you spend on it.

Find an NRCan-registered energy auditor, see real prices, and get the rebates that are actually live in your province — from Ontario's $600 assessment rebate and heat pump rebates to BC's Improvement Bonus and Efficiency Manitoba.

  • Every provider is a licensed service organization — no sales-pitch "free audits"
  • Program data verified against official pages · last review October 2, 2026
  • Free planner: what your home needs, what it saves, before anyone visits

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Loose-fill insulation between attic joists, a yellow ruler showing its depth and frost on the roofing nails above
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Profile your home

The planner reads your home's era, heating, and symptoms — and tells you what's likely behind the walls and what it's costing you.

Utility bills and a phone showing a monthly energy-use chart on a kitchen table
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See the real money

Estimated savings per upgrade, typical costs, and the rebates that apply — verified against official program pages, not last year's blog posts.

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Book a registered advisor

Compare licensed service organizations serving your area — credentials shown, prices where published, no shared lead lists.

Where houses actually leak

Your home has a heat signature

Through an infrared camera, every house glows where it's failing — attic bypasses, empty wall cavities, rim joists, bare foundation walls. The planner predicts your home's pattern from its era; the audit's blower door and thermal scan measure it exactly. Drag across the photo to see what the camera sees.

Blower door test Infrared scan Heat-loss calc Radon test All tests →
A 1950s brick bungalow on a snowy suburban street at dusk, lamplight in the front window
The same bungalow as an infrared camera sees it: heat glowing around the door, window frames, eaves and the rim joist above the foundation
Illustration: a 1950s bungalow in visible light and as an infrared camera would show it on a cold night. Heat escapes where air leaks and insulation is thin.

The tests, up close

What an auditor actually does in your house

Every test has a plain-language guide and a local page for each of our 70 cities: what it measures, what it costs where you live, and who does it.

A red blower-door panel with a large fan fitted into the front doorway of a brick bungalow, a pressure gauge on a stool inside

Blower door test

Your airtightness number
Hands holding an infrared camera aimed at a ceiling corner beside a frosty window; the screen shows a cold streak

Infrared scan

Finds the empty walls
Loose-fill insulation between attic joists, a yellow ruler showing its depth and frost on the roofing nails above

Attic inspection

Depth, gaps and frost
A small digital radon monitor on a bookshelf in a finished basement family room

Radon test

The one every home needs
A gloved hand inserting a combustion analyzer probe into a furnace flue pipe in a basement

Combustion safety

Before tightening the house
Filling a water-sample bottle at a farmhouse kitchen tap with the aerator removed, snowy fields and a barn outside

Well water

Bacteria, then chemistry

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Live in Ontario right now

The rebates worth planning around

Rebate programs open and close with little warning — the federal Grant and Loan are both gone, and half the internet hasn't noticed. We verify every program against its official page and stamp the date.

HRSP (with assessment)

Active · limits apply

Up to $10,000 per home for insulation, windows and air sealing, plus $600 back on your assessments — if the follow-up assessment is done by December 31, 2026

  • up to $600 — Home energy assessments (paid after 2+ upgrades)
  • up to $7,700 — Insulation: attic $1,500 · walls $3,600 · foundation $2,300 · exposed floor $300
  • $100 per opening — Windows & doors (at least 3 windows, or 1 door or skylight)
  • $200–$250 — Air sealing (meet or beat the target)
  • $500 — Heat pump water heater
  • $500 — Bonus for 3 or more upgrades
  • $5,000 — Maximum per home if gas-heated (includes the $600)
  • $10,000 — Maximum per home if heated by electricity, oil, propane or wood (includes the $600)

Audit required Verified 2026-10-02

HRSP (no assessment)

Active

Heat pumps up to $7,500 ($12,000 ground-source), solar with battery up to $10,000, plus attic, thermostat and appliance rebates — no assessment needed

  • up to $7,500 — Cold-climate air-source heat pump ($1,250/ton; electric, oil, propane or wood heat)
  • up to $12,000 — Ground-source heat pump ($2,000/ton; electric, oil, propane or wood heat)
  • up to $2,000 — Air-source heat pump in an Enbridge gas-heated home ($3,000 for ground-source)
  • up to $2,000 — Rented heat pump, any heating fuel ($500/ton air-source; $3,000 flat ground-source)
  • up to $5,000 — Rooftop solar ($1,000/kW, at most 50% of cost)
  • up to $5,000 — Battery storage with new solar ($300/kWh, at most 50% of cost)
  • up to $1,250 — Attic insulation to R-50, from R-12 or less (50% of after-tax cost; participating contractors; installed by Nov 30, 2026)
  • up to $1,000 — Attic insulation to R-50, from above R-12 to R-25
  • up to $800 — Attic insulation to R-50, from above R-25 to R-35
  • $650–$750 — Cathedral ceiling or flat roof (to R-20 or R-28)
  • $125 — Smart thermostat (one per household; buy, install and activate by Dec 31, 2026)
  • $25–$200 each — ENERGY STAR Most Efficient appliances replacing electric ones

No audit required Verified 2026-10-02

Toronto HELP

Active

City loans up to $125,000 (or 10% of your home's assessed value) for energy retrofits, repaid on your property tax bill

  • up to $125,000 — Loan amount — or 10% of assessed value if less, including interest and fees
  • Reset quarterly — Fixed interest rates
  • 3.34%–4.75% — Last posted table (valid until Sept 30, 2026): 5, 10, 15 and 20 years
  • 2% — Administrative charge
  • up to 30% — Advance once your agreement is signed

Audit required Verified 2026-10-02

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The directory

Registered advisors, on the record

Ontario's official "find an advisor" resource is a phone list. Ours shows who serves your area, their registration, their published prices where they exist — and rewards the providers transparent enough to post them.

Only assessments from the seven HRSP-approved organizations qualify for Ontario's $600 assessment rebate. Every card says whether the provider is one of them. See the seven

Browse by area: TorontoOttawaHamiltonMississaugaBramptonYork RegionKitchener–Waterloo & CambridgeLondonBarrie & Simcoe CountyPeterborough & the KawarthasKingston & Eastern OntarioNiagara Region

Or go deeper: city-by-city home energy guides — your region's housing stock, read like an auditor.

Coast to coast

70 cities, each read like an auditor would

A 1912 Montréal plex, a 1962 Regina bungalow and a 2015 Calgary two-storey leak in different places. Every city guide starts from its own Census housing data and climate.

A two-storey Vancouver Special house on a rainy street above a mossy retaining wall
British Columbia
A two-storey Calgary house with a double garage under a chinook sky, mountains on the horizon
Alberta
A stucco bungalow on a frosty Prairie street, a pickup truck plugged in for its block heater
Saskatchewan & Manitoba
A Victorian red-brick semi-detached house with a front porch in autumn
Ontario
A brick Montréal plex with exterior spiral staircases in winter
Quebec
Colourful wooden row houses on a steep street above a foggy Atlantic harbour
Atlantic Canada
A house raised on steel piles in a northern town, a snowmobile parked outside in ice fog
The North
Toronto Montréal Calgary Ottawa Edmonton Winnipeg Mississauga Vancouver Brampton Hamilton Surrey Québec City All 70 cities →

Straight answers

What does a home energy audit cost in Ontario?

Typical Ontario prices are about $500–$700 for the initial EnerGuide evaluation and $200–$450 for the follow-up, plus HST where it applies, and NRCan puts the two visits together at $600–$1,000 on average. Ontario’s Home Renovation Savings Program pays back $600 toward the two assessments once you install at least two recommended upgrades, but only assessments from the seven HRSP-approved organizations qualify. With one of those, the rebate covers most of a typical two-visit bill; with any other provider, you pay the full price. The follow-up has to be done by December 31, 2026.

Is the audit actually required to get rebates?

For the biggest ones, yes. The Home Renovation Savings assessment path (insulation up to $7,700, windows at $100 per opening) requires a pre- and post-retrofit EnerGuide assessment through one of the program’s seven approved service organizations. Toronto’s HELP loans require it for most projects too. Heat pump and solar rebates have a no-assessment stream.

Who actually performs the audit?

A registered energy advisor working under an NRCan-licensed service organization. Every provider listed on AuditYourHome is a licensed service organization — we link the registration source on each profile and we don’t list solar or HVAC sales reps as “auditors.”

Is the Canada Greener Homes Grant still available?

No — it closed to new applicants in February 2024, and the interest-free Greener Homes Loan closed October 1, 2025. Plenty of websites still advertise both. The live money in Ontario right now is Home Renovation Savings, Toronto HELP, and the CMHC Eco premium refunds — see our program tracker for what’s verified as of October 2, 2026.

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