About ecoENERGY & Ontario Home Energy Savings

The ecoENERGY Retrofit -Houses program is an initiative of Natural Resources Canada and is designed to help reduce household greenhouse gas emissions by encouraging Canadians to improve the level of energy efficiency in their homes. While NRCan cancelled funding on March 31, 2010, the provincial Home Energy Savings program is continuing grant money for homeowners to perform energy retrofits. Contracted delivery agents provide the service to homeowners across Canada. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions is part of Canada’s climate change strategy to help us meet commitments of the Kyoto Protocol.

The Elora Environment Centre carries out the ecoENERGY Retrofit - Homes energy efficiency incentive program under license from Green Communities Canada. We operate over a large part of south-central and south-western Ontario ( Tobermory to Sarnia)

Please Note: We previously operated this program under the name REEP ( Residential Energy Efficiency Program) . Although we no longer use the REEP name, all program elements remain the same.

As a non-profit organization, we are focused doing the right things- to respect the environment and help communities and citizens to improve their energy efficiency while saving money and resources.

The benefits of our ecoENERGY service include:

We offer independent, unbiased advice.

As a non-profit environmental organization, we do not represent any particular products.

We have a lot of experience.

We have been involved in home energy evaluations since the very beginning in 1997 when the federal government launched it’s pilot program.

We put the environment and communities first.

Our success is built on partnerships. As part of the Green Communities Canada alliance, we receive the wide support of municipalities, local businesses, utilities and citizens groups.

For more details about the ecoENERGY Retrofit for Homes program, click on the quick-links on the left side of this page.

Certified Energy Advisors

All our advisors are certified by Natural Resources Canada.

As a non-profit organization, our advisors provide unbiased and independent advice -we have no vested interest in any particular products or companies.

We conduct home energy audits over a large part of Ontario - covering south-central and south-western Ontario- from Tobermory to Windsor.