Windfall Ecology Centre
Non-profitNRCan-licensed service organization
Toronto, York, Durham and Peel regions, from its office in Aurora
$500 + HST initial · $250 + HST follow-up
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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Your free plan
The planner reads your home's era, heating and symptoms, then estimates what's likely behind the walls, what each upgrade could save in your climate and which rebates your province offers, before anyone visits.
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Book the audit
The audit is an EnerGuide evaluation by a registered energy advisor. Book it through your province's program where there is one, or we match you with one licensed organization for your area.
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The audit visit and report
The advisor measures your house (blower door, attic, heating system) and gives you a rating and a ranked list of upgrades: the numbers your rebates are based on.
Then come the upgrades and rebates. How a home energy audit works · How booking works in your province · Rebates by province
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.
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.
Rebates by province
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. The new federal heat pump rebate was announced October 8, 2026 but won't open until early 2027. Today the live money is provincial. We verify every program against its official page and stamp the date.
British Columbia
- Open Home Energy Improvement Bonus $20 per %-point improvement · $750–$2,000
- Income-qualified CleanBC Energy Savings Program Income-tiered rebates · heat pumps to $13,000
Alberta
- Open Clean Energy Improvement Program (CEIP) Property-tax financing, 27 municipalities
Saskatchewan
- Open Utility offers (SaskEnergy / SaskPower) Gas equipment rebates · free income-qualified upgrades
- Open Home Renovation Tax Credit 10.5% · up to $420 a year ($525 seniors)
Manitoba
- Open Efficiency Manitoba — EnerGuide Evaluation Rebate $400 back on the evaluation
- Open Efficiency Manitoba — windows, heat pumps & insulation Windows $100 · heat pumps $1,500–$2,000 · insulation by R-value
Ontario
- Open Home Renovation Savings Program $600 assessment rebate · insulation to $7,700 · heat pumps to $7,500 ($12,000 ground-source)
- Open Toronto Home Energy Loan Program (HELP) City loans up to $125,000 (or 10% of assessed value), repaid on the property tax bill
Quebec
- Open Rénoclimat Insulation & windows · evaluation optional since Oct 1, 2026
- Open Hydro-Québec LogisVert Heat pumps $50–$120 per 1,000 BTU/h · roof insulation $1,500
New Brunswick
- Open Total Home Energy Savings Program Evaluation $99 + HST · heat pumps $400–$2,000
- Income-qualified Enhanced Energy Savings (income-qualified) Free upgrades, household income under $70,000
Nova Scotia
- Open Home Energy Assessment path Assessment $199 · rebates up to $5,000
- Income-qualified Moderate Income Rebates + HomeWarming Moderate Income Rebate up to $5,000 more · HomeWarming free
Prince Edward Island
- Open Home Energy Assessment ($99 + HST) Subsidized audit via 5 partners
- Open Insulation, window & air-sealing rebates Windows $125 per opening · free insulation under $55,000
Newfoundland & Labrador
- Open takeCHARGE (NL Power / NL Hydro) Insulation to $3,000 · air sealing · HRV
- Open Oil to Electric Incentive Program Up to $9,000 · $22,000 income-qualified
The North (YT · NT · NU)
- Open Yukon — Energy Branch rebates Heat pumps to $10,500 ($24,000 income-qualified)
- Open NWT — Arctic Energy Alliance Evaluations $200 + GST · insulation rebates
The directory
Registered advisors, on the record
Canada's official way to find an energy advisor is a list of licensed service organizations by postal code. Our city pages show who serves each of 70 cities, and how booking works in each province. In Ontario we go further, with full provider profiles and published prices where they exist.
Find an auditor in your province →
Ontario: only assessments from the seven HRSP-approved organizations qualify for the province's $600 assessment rebate. Every Ontario provider card says whether the provider is one of them. See the seven
Reep Green Solutions
Non-profitNRCan-licensed service organization
Waterloo Region, Guelph and area, and parts of Oxford County; Brantford, Stratford and Woodstock for a $40 mileage fee
$540 initial · $406 follow-up
The Energuy
CompanyNRCan-registered service organization
Province-wide Ontario coverage; also active in BC, AB, SK, MB and several US states
Prices not published — ask when you contact them
Reports 400,000+ home energy assessments since 2003 (company claim)
Ontario areas in depth: 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.
Straight answers
What does a home energy audit cost in Canada?
It depends on the province. Where a provincial or territorial program runs the bookings, it’s subsidized: $50 in Yukon, $99 + HST in New Brunswick and PEI, a $199 program fee in Nova Scotia and $200 + GST in the NWT. Elsewhere you pay the advisor directly: about $400–$500 in BC, more than $400 in Alberta, $500–$600 in Saskatchewan and $500–$700 in Ontario for the first visit, with the follow-up extra. Manitoba rebates $400 of it, Ontario’s Home Renovation Savings Program pays $600 toward the two visits through its seven approved organizations, and Quebec’s Rénoclimat pays up to $500. See the cost guide for each province.
Is the audit actually required to get rebates?
For many of the biggest ones, yes. Programs that pay on measured improvement need an EnerGuide evaluation before and after the work: BC’s Home Energy Improvement Bonus, Ontario’s Home Renovation Savings assessment path (insulation up to $7,700, windows at $100 per opening) and Nova Scotia’s assessment-path rebates are examples. Some rebates, mostly for heat pumps, have a no-evaluation stream. Your province’s page says which is which.
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. A new federal National Heat Pump Rebate ($2,000, or up to $10,000 below the median income, for cold-climate heat pumps) was announced October 8, 2026 and is expected to open early in 2027. Today the live money is provincial: see the rebates by province on this page and our program tracker for what’s verified as of October 2, 2026.
Run a service organization?
Verified listings are free. We send homeowners who already know their era profile, their likely upgrades, and their rebate path — the most qualified audit lead there is.