The government is budgeting $2 billion over eight years with a target of retrofitting one million homes.
Households below the median income level can get up to $10,000 back on a heat pump purchase, while other homeowners can get $2,000 by switching to a heat pump.
Ottawa is in the process of winding down an existing program to subsidize purchases of heat pumps for homes heated with oil. As of March, the Oil to Heat Pump Affordability program helped to install more than 30,000 heat pumps across the country.
just mandate only heat pumps can be sold. don’t give the option for AC only. they are literally the same condenser, just with a reversing cable and a few other minor changes.
But you’ll need the ones with the heater coils as well. Heat pumps only work down to a certain temperature.
This should have been new building code 20 years ago.
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what gets buried? are you thinking geothermal?
inside the house is no equipment difference. same blower/furnace works, same ductwork, same evap coil. it’s an identical install.
companies charging more because it’s a heat pump is instead of an AC is a joke… manufacturing materials is 200-300 extra on the condenser at retail price.
To be fair, only geothermal heat pumps make sense when it gets cold. My heat pump stops doing much around -25C
My heat pump is rated for -25C but it certainly doesn’t become useless past that, it heats enough to keep my house at 23C for a day or 2 at -30 without it’s resistive heating kicking in. There are heat pumps rated for -30 though.
Where did you get that idea?
I live in a condo. We have heat pumps. There’s only a condenser outside. Nothing goes in the ground.
I don’t have anything buried.
Yay, good news. Its not hard.
It’ll only be through dealers that are charging 4X what they should cost.
I did the Greener Homes Grant signup, got my quotes of approved equipment via approved dealers, then bought a heat pump via Home Depot and installed it myself for half of what it would have cost after the rebate.
Ridiculous scam.
Interesting. My current heat pump is broken and probably needs replacing next year. I wonder if I’ll be able to get that 2k rebate.
I could not give a flying fuck. How about making life affordable for 80 percent of Canadians who can’t afford to buy a home?
