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Take Action to Prompt the Federal Government to Continue the Canada Greener Homes Grant

Take Action to Prompt the Federal Government to Continue the Canada Greener Homes Grant

by Jose Joy | Jan 22, 2024 | Energy

The Canada Greener Homes Grant has been helping Canadian homeowners pay for energy efficiency upgrades since its introduction in 2021. As noted in our Retrofitting Canada’s Homes: Progress Report #1, the incentive program has been highly successful in stimulating...
Retired Couple Improve Home Envelope and Add Heat Pumps to Get 56 Per Cent Energy Savings!

Retired Couple Improve Home Envelope and Add Heat Pumps to Get 56 Per Cent Energy Savings!

by Eric Ta | Dec 1, 2023 | Energy

In a quiet suburb in the Otonabee River basin in Peterborough, Ontario stands Susan and Jim Blakelock’s 1989-built bungalow.  The Blakelocks, with advice from their GreenUP energy advisor, switched their primary heating to a heat pump and addressed their home’s...
Over 8,000 deep energy retrofits in 3 years raises hope about achieving GHG targets, but federal incentives must grow: Report

Over 8,000 deep energy retrofits in 3 years raises hope about achieving GHG targets, but federal incentives must grow: Report

by GCC Team | Nov 7, 2023 | News, Energy

Peterborough, On, 8 November 2023: Green Communities Canada has completed an in-depth review of federal data on reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in Canada’s low-rise housing sector and makes recommendations for improving the effectiveness of the Canada Greener...
Kingston Home Adds Solar and Heat Pump to Get 84 Per Cent Energy Savings

Kingston Home Adds Solar and Heat Pump to Get 84 Per Cent Energy Savings

by Eric Ta | Oct 27, 2023 | Energy

Diana Wyatt and Craig Campbell live in a 1997-built family home located in the greater Kingston area. In spring 2022, Campbell and Wyatt undertook a deep energy retrofit that dropped their home’s energy use from the grid by 100 GJ — an 84 per cent reduction in energy...
Partnering for progress: accelerating deep energy retrofits in canada

Partnering for progress: accelerating deep energy retrofits in canada

by Alex Joseph | Oct 10, 2023 | Energy

Green Communities Canada (GCC) would like to thank our funders Peter Gilgan Foundation, Trottier Family Foundation, and McConnell Foundation (along with in-kind contributions from Google and Salesforce) for supporting the development of our national Deep Energy...
Geothermal Heat Pump Helped Reduce This Home’s Energy Use By 64 Per Cent

Geothermal Heat Pump Helped Reduce This Home’s Energy Use By 64 Per Cent

by Eric Ta | Sep 24, 2023 | Energy

Karen Watts-Plater, her partner David Harvey, and mother-in-law Margaret Plater live on a small hobby farm in the Beaver Valley in central Ontario. The trio’s home is an 1875-built house on a farm Watts-Plater and her late husband John Plater bought over twenty...
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