***As of April First 5PM the federal portion of the Eco_energy grants no longer apply:
Notice of Operational Changes to the ecoENERGY Retrofit- Homes Program
After launching the ecoENERGY Retrofit – Homes Program in 2007, the Government of Canada expanded the program’s budget under the Economic Action Plan to a total of $745 million. To ensure the ecoENERGY Retrofit – Homes Program operates within its existing budget, effective today, the program is no longer accepting new bookings for pre-retrofit evaluations. We will continue to approve grant applications from the over 300,000 eligible homeowners right up to March 31, 2011 — that is in addition to nearly 300,000 we have already processed.
We emphasize the following:
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- Effective today (March 31, 2010), the program is not accepting new bookings for pre-retrofit evaluations. Confirmation of these bookings through a CID must be made prior to 5pm EST, Thursday April 1, 2010. At this time, the ecoENERGY Retrofit - Homes program will no longer be issuing CID’s for appointments for federal grant eligible pre-retrofit evaluations.
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- The program is confident that all eligible homeowners who previously entered the program by scheduling or completing a pre-retrofit evaluation will still have the opportunity to apply for and receive a grant.
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- Most provinces and territories have developed their own energy efficiency programs for homes and the Government of Canada will continue to process applications for those complementary programs.
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- Homeowners who are within their current 18 month timeline will still be permitted to apply for an extension to that timeline via the program’s online application found at (http://oee.nrcan.gc.ca/residential/personal/register.cfm?attr=4).
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- Previous program participants will no longer be permitted to apply for re-entry to the program and submit a second grant application. Program participants who have already registered, and been approved, for program re-entry will have until Mar 31, 2011, or 18 months from the date of their re-entry (whichever occurs first) to undertake the additional qualifying retrofits, obtain the second post-retrofit evaluation, and apply for the program grant.
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- Update Frequently Asked Questions are available on the program web site at: http://oee.nrcan.gc.ca/residential/personal/grants.cfm
Issuance of CID’s for Appointments For Federal Grant Eligible Pre-Retrofit Evaluations (D’s)
The program is confident that all eligible homeowners already having an assigned CID for a pre-retrofit evaluation will still have the opportunity to apply for and receive a grant.
Please note the following:
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- Effective 5pm EST on Thursday April 1, 2010, NRCan will no longer be issuing CID numbers. The online CID application will no longer be accessible.
- Pre-retrofit files not including a valid CID number will be ineligible for an ecoENERGY Retrofit - Homes grant.
- Other aspects of the administration of the ecoENERGY Retrofit Homes program will continue until March 31, 2011.
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Since October 2009, NRCan has mandated that Service Organizations obtain a CID prior to confirming an appointment booking with a homeowner. Service Organizations will be solely responsible to homeowners for any appointment bookings confirmed prior to obtaining a CID. Files not including a valid CID number will still be transferred to program partners in accordance with established data transfer agreements and homeowner consent, but will not be eligible for an ecoENERGY Retrofit - Homes grant.
