Confidence: Verified (May 2026). Program details and rebate tables verified directly at homerenovationsavings.ca and saveonenergy.ca within the last 90 days. Rebate amounts and rules can be modified or discontinued at any time per the program's own terms — re-verify before quoting customers.

What it is

The Ontario Home Renovation Savings Program (HRS) is the only province-wide residential energy-efficiency rebate program currently paying out in 2026. It is co-delivered by Save on Energy (IESO) and Enbridge Gas with Government of Ontario support, and it replaces the former Home Efficiency Rebate Plus (HER+, closed Feb 5, 2024). It is part of what Ontario's Minister of Energy and Electrification Stephen Lecce described in a January 7, 2025 Ontario Newsroom announcement as "a new $10.9 billion, 12-year investment in energy efficiency, the largest in Canadian history."

Program lifecycle

• Active and accepting applications as of May 2026.
• Sunset date: November 30, 2026 (extended from the original November 30, 2025).
• Contractor registration for the 2026 program year closes May 31, 2026. After that date no new participating contractors can be added until the next registration window. Installations completed by contractors not registered in the 2026 window are not rebate-eligible.

Eligibility

To qualify a home must:

1. Be a single-detached, semi-detached, row house, townhome, or mobile home on a permanent foundation. Stacked townhomes, condos, apartments, and new builds (occupied ≤6 months) are excluded.
2. Be either (a) primarily heated by natural gas with an active Enbridge Gas residential account, OR (b) connected to the Ontario electricity grid and primarily heated by electricity, oil, propane, or wood.
3. Cornwall Electric customers are excluded (Hydro-Québec grid) unless converting to or from Enbridge gas.

Crucial for B&J customers: Propane and oil homes have been fully eligible since February 2025. The program homepage states verbatim: "Be an Enbridge Gas residential customer with an active account and primarily heat your home with a natural gas furnace or boiler OR be connected to the Ontario electricity grid and heat your home with electricity, oil, propane, or wood."

Heat-pump rebates are paid at 2.5× the gas-home rate for non-gas-heated homes (oil, propane, wood, electric) — a structural advantage for B&J's residential base.

Rebate amounts — non-gas homes (oil, propane, wood, electric)

Single-upgrade path (no home energy assessment required)

Bundled "assessment" stream (initial + follow-up Registered Energy Advisor assessments required; 2+ upgrades)

Maximum total rebates for the bundled stream: $5,000 (natural-gas homes) / $10,000 (non-gas: electric, propane, oil, wood).

What is NOT eligible

HRS pays $0 for any of the following — there is no line item, anywhere in the rebate tables, for fossil-fuel equipment:

• High-efficiency propane furnaces (any AFUE)
• Propane boilers
• Oil furnaces
• Oil boilers
• Propane or oil water heaters (other than as the replaced fuel-fired DHW in a heat-pump water heater retrofit)
• Propane fireplaces
• Wood stoves

The program is explicitly designed to drive electrification away from oil and propane.

Application process

1. Confirm eligibility at homerenovationsavings.ca (or saveonenergy.ca).
2. For a single heat-pump upgrade: select a registered HRS contractor, who submits the pre-approval application. Pre-approval is mandatory — installations completed before approval are ineligible.
3. Install the equipment. The contractor submits the post-installation application.
4. The rebate cheque arrives by mail within roughly 60 days of post-installation approval.
5. For the bundled assessment stream: book an initial home energy assessment with a Registered Energy Advisor before any work begins, complete two or more eligible upgrades, then a follow-up assessment.

Stacking with other programs

• HRS heat pump + federal OHPA (oil-heated homes only): stacks. Total potential $17,500 for an above-income oil-to-heat-pump conversion (HRS $7,500 ccASHP + OHPA $10,000 federal). See reg-federal-canada-greener-homes-programs-2026.
• HRS + IESO Energy Affordability Program (income-qualified): combines into a single IESO direct-install delivery; up to $25,000 total for oil-to-heat-pump for income-qualified households. See reg-ieso-energy-affordability-program-2026.
• HRS heat pump + municipal LIC programs (Guelph, BetterHomes London): stacks — the LIC is financing, not a grant.
• HRS cannot be stacked with HER+ for the same project (but HER+ closed in 2025, so moot for 2026 work).
• A home that previously received an Enbridge or IESO Save on Energy rebate for the same measure is ineligible for HRS on that measure.

Enbridge's role and the HER+ retirement

Enbridge Gas co-delivers HRS — but HRS is the only Enbridge-co-delivered program with any application to B&J customers:

• HER+ (Home Efficiency Rebate Plus): Closed to new applicants February 5, 2024. Final post-retrofit assessments had to be completed by December 1, 2025; all paperwork submitted by December 31, 2025. Even when active, HER+ was restricted to Enbridge natural-gas customers — propane and oil customers were never eligible.
• Home Winterproofing Program: Income-qualified envelope upgrades for Enbridge gas customers. Excludes propane and oil customers.
• Enbridge furnace tune-up rebates, smart thermostat rebates, etc.: Restricted to Enbridge gas customers. Excludes propane and oil.

Implications for B&J sales conversations

• A propane-to-propane or oil-to-oil like-for-like equipment replacement qualifies for $0 in HRS rebates.
• An oil-to-propane conversion qualifies for $0 in HRS rebates for the propane equipment itself, but the homeowner can layer in up to $7,500 for a hybrid ccASHP installed alongside the new propane furnace (propane homes qualify at the non-gas rate of $1,250/ton up to $7,500). This is the highest-rebate pathway compatible with keeping propane as the primary winter fuel.
• A propane home doing a full propane-to-heat-pump switch qualifies for the same HRS amounts as an oil home, but does NOT qualify for federal OHPA (OHPA is oil-only).

Sources

• homerenovationsavings.ca (program homepage and eligibility/rebate pages)
• saveonenergy.ca (IESO co-delivery surface)
• Ontario Newsroom, January 7, 2025 announcement
• Cross-verified contractor registration deadlines via Enbridge participating-contractor portal