Energy efficiency makes for healthy workplaces and living spaces, increases comfort and saves money. Take steps to improve energy efficiency and you can also help create a healthier environment by reducing smog pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change.

Commercial and Institutional Buildings

Use our publications, training, tools and other technical information to help choose energy efficiency measures and practices for your existing buildings. If you own small or medium-sized buildings, you may be eligible for our ecoENERGY Retrofit financial incentive or other financing options.

To promote energy efficiency in new buildings, we offer a number of tools and activities including modelling software, training, information, access to stakeholder networks and validation of new building designs.

We are working with other levels of government to encourage the adoption of more stringent energy codes and to update the Model National Energy Code for Buildings. We are also consulting with stakeholders to further develop a voluntary energy benchmarking and rating system for buildings.

For buildings owned or managed by the Government of Canada, we offer the Federal Buildings Initiative, a proven, turn-key solution that enables federal departments and agencies to retrofit their buildings without necessarily using their own capital funds through energy performance contracting.

Existing Homes

ecoENERGY Retrofit - Homes – Effective March 31, 2010, the program is no longer accepting bookings for pre-retrofit evaluations. The program will continue to be administered until March 31, 2011. If you have already booked an appointment for a pre-retrofit evaluation, have completed an evaluation or applied for re-entry to the program, you remain eligible to apply for a grant.

Newly Built Homes

When you build or buy a new home, you want the best product on the market – one that's as energy efficient as possible and that will keep your energy bills under control for years to come.

This is why we have developed the R-2000* Standard as a training and building standard and the EnerGuide rating system as an energy rating tool.

The R-2000 Standard and EnerGuide rating system have prepared the market for regional energy efficiency initiatives such as ENERGY STAR® for New Homes to advance energy efficient home building in Canada.