Clean Energy Improvement Program (Alberta)
Active — limits applyProperty-tax financing for efficiency and renewable upgrades in participating Alberta municipalities — check your municipality's current intake
What it pays
- Financing repaid via property taxes (PACE-style)Structure
- Efficiency + renewable upgrades, per municipal programCoverage
- Participating municipalities onlyAvailability
- None active in AlbertaProvincial audit-linked rebate
The audit question
No audit required
No provincial audit requirement — CEIP is financing, not a rebate. An EnerGuide evaluation is still the right scoping step, and some municipal streams reference it.
Who qualifies
Homeowners in municipalities running an active CEIP intake. Each municipality sets its own measures, caps, and intake windows — and intakes fill.
How to apply, step by step
Check whether your municipality runs CEIP and whether its residential intake is open (intakes are windowed and fill).
Scope the project — an EnerGuide evaluation ranks the measures worth financing.
Apply through your municipality's CEIP portal with quotes from qualified contractors.
Work is completed by approved contractors; repayment rides your property tax bill over the term.
Selling? The obligation can transfer with the property — understand the disclosure before listing.
The gotchas
- CEIP is a loan, not free money — compare its rate and term against your other credit honestly.
- The repayment attaches to the property's tax bill; buyers' lawyers will ask about it at sale.
- Municipal intakes open and close — 'Alberta has CEIP' doesn't mean your town does this quarter.
Worth knowing
Alberta's story is candour: no provincial rebate, Edmonton's HERA fully subscribed, federal programs closed. CEIP's tax-bill financing, run by Alberta Municipalities with participating municipalities, is the live mechanism where intake is open (Calgary's residential intake is closed until winter 2026/27) — and the audit's value is what it always was here: lower bills in a brutal climate, right-sized equipment, and pre-purchase clarity.
Common questions
Does Alberta have any home energy rebates right now?
No active provincial audit-linked rebate (verified October 2, 2026) — Edmonton's HERA is fully subscribed, and the federal loan and oil-to-heat-pump programs are closed. CEIP's property-tax financing in participating municipalities is the live mechanism.
How does CEIP financing actually work?
Your municipality finances approved upgrades and you repay through your property tax bill over a set term — PACE-style. Measures, caps, and intake windows are municipal decisions, so the details live with your city's program.
Is an audit worth paying for in Alberta with no rebate?
Alberta's climate makes the strongest pure-physics case in the country: deep design cold means envelope fixes found by the audit pay back on bills alone, and right-sizing a furnace or heat pump against a real heat-loss number avoids the oversizing habit that costs Albertans comfort and money.
Is Calgary's CEIP open?
Not right now. The City of Calgary says residential CEIP is closed until winter 2026/2027 and will post its interest rates a week before the next application date. Check your own municipality's current intake on the CEIP site.
Official program page ↗ Always confirm details there before spending — programs change faster than any tracker.