The Heritage Energy Retrofit Grant was designed to encourage and enable deep energy retrofits and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions while respecting the heritage fabric and character-defining elements of participating homes in Vancouver. Retrofits can improve the comfort of your older home, reduce your energy bills and reduce impact on the environment.
Grants to assist with improving energy efficiency
The Heritage Energy Retrofit Grant program is now closed. Thank you to all of our participants and program partners.
The Heritage Energy Retrofit Grant program offered homeowners incentives to increase energy efficiencies within a home that complement other community rebate programs including through Better Homes BC Home Renovation Rebate Program, BC Hydro and FortisBC. It takes a holistic approach to GHG reduction by financially rewarding the overall reduction of GHG in a single dwelling after the completion of recommended energy retrofits. The program subsidized mandatory pre-retrofit and post-retrofit home energy evaluations and a Vancouver GHG Reduction Opportunities Report.
The grant amount provided by the Heritage Energy Retrofit Grant program was variable and calculated at the end based on the participant’s GHG emissions reductions achieved in the program.
Seeking Heritage Homes for Research on Carbon Impact
We are seeking five multi-unit homes built before 1940 that are undergoing extensive energy retrofits for a research project focused on embodied and operational carbon in heritage properties.
Participants will recieve up to $5000 for their participation and will be featured in case studies shared through Vancouver Heritage Foundation and our program partners.
To learn more, please see the program webpage
