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Notice of Operational Changes to the ecoENERGY Retrofit-Homes Program

March 31, 2010 – Government of Canada announcement – 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. The program 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. The following is emphasized:

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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:

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.

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.

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