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Affordable Housing Multi-Residential Program

Get up to $200,000 to improve affordable housing buildings

The Affordable Housing Multi-Residential program offers incentives to help you upgrade to high-efficiency equipment. Working with you at every step, our Energy Solutions Advisors are here to help you make capital improvement projects that will help you save energy and money and keep your building running optimally.

This program is for social and municipal housing providers, shelters, co-ops and eligible market-rate multi-family buildings. Eligible market-rate multi-family buildings will need to demonstrate either at least 30 percent of units are rented at less than 80 percent of the median market rent, determined by the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation, based on the information gathered during rent roll review by Enbridge Gas, or the building has participated in a federal, provincial, or municipal affordable housing funding program in the last 5 years.

What’s in it for you?

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    Free expert help to identify energy-saving opportunities.

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    Up to $8,000 per building for an on-site energy assessment (up to $40,000 per housing provider).

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    Up to $200,000 in incentives for energy-efficient boilers, water heaters, condensing MUAs and more.

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    Free in-suite upgrades, such as showerheads and heat reflector panels.

Benefits of boosting building performance

Reduce energy consumption and costs.

Minimize your carbon footprint.

Boost reserve for other improvements.

Reduce capital costs with incentives.

Enhance the comfort and well-being of your residents.

“This program saves customers money and reduces emissions, but it’s also rewarding to know that the upgrades we make have a positive impact on residents. These are their homes, and we’re making them more comfortable.”

David Snyder
Project Manager, Novitherm

How the program works

Our experienced team is here to help housing providers with expertise to implement energy-efficiency projects from end to end.

Contact an Energy Solutions Advisor for help identifying energy-efficient retrofit projects suited to your business.

They’ll work with you and your service provider to calculate or verify estimated savings and payback with incentives.

Upon project completion, get an incentive that covers up to 50 percent of energy efficiency upgrade costs, up to $200,000 per project.

Simcoe County Housing Corporation upgrades and saves

By switching to high-efficiency natural gas systems—including a domestic hot water boiler—the housing corporation is saving up to 40 percent on natural gas consumption and improving comfort for the seniors, families and individuals they serve.

  • Up to 40 percent in energy savings.
  • GHG reductions.
  • Improved resident comfort.

“In addition to reducing operating costs, our new equipment purchases have also allowed us to reduce our carbon footprint, and reducing our carbon footprint is helping the county meet its long-term energy reduction targets.”

Brad Spiewak
Maintenance Project Manager, County of Simcoe

Energy assessment

An energy assessment can help you identify opportunities for natural gas savings in multi-family buildings.

Energy assessment incentives
Incentive
For multi-family buildings four storeys and higher, or 6,400 square feet or greater. Maximum limit of $40,000 per housing provider. Up to $8,000 per building

Custom engineering projects

Custom incentives are calculated for energy efficiency projects involving equipment and processes that do not have a fixed incentive, as well as projects involving multiple energy effi ciency equipment and processes.

Custom engineering project incentives
Incentive
Custom projects reduce natural gas consumption in your building. Examples include: insulation upgrades, heat recovery, boiler and related controls, control systems and building automation systems.

Get up 50 percent of the energy efficiency upgrades costs up to maximum of $200,000. 		$1.00/annual m3 of natural gas saved

Fixed prescriptive incentives

Get per-unit incentives for equipment upgrades—both retrofit and new construction projects qualify.

Fixed prescriptive incentives
Incentive
Condensing make-up air (MUA)
Constant speed $0.60/CFM
Two speed or variable frequency drives (VFD) $1.10/CFM
Maximum 1,500 CFM to maximum 14,000 CFM per unit
Condensing water heaters
Storage water heaters > 75 kBTU/hr $0.80/annual m3 of natural gas saved
Instantaneous (tankless) water heaters ≥ 75 kBTU/hr $1.00/annual m3 of natural gas saved
Energy recovery ventilator (ERV)
No existing ERV or not required by code
≥ 55% to ≤ 64% sensible heat recovery effectiveness $2.75/CFM
≥ 65% to ≤ 74% sensible heat recovery effectiveness $3.30/CFM
≥ 75% to ≤ 84% sensible heat recovery effectiveness $3.75/CFM
≥ 85% sensible heat recovery effectiveness $4.00/CFM
Improved effectiveness
≥ 65% to ≤ 74% sensible heat recovery effectiveness $1.00/CFM
≥ 75% to ≤ 84% sensible heat recovery effectiveness $1.25/CFM
≥ 85% sensible heat recovery effectiveness $1.50/CFM
Heat recovery ventilator (HRV)
No existing HRV or not required by code
≥ 55% to ≤ 64% sensible heat recovery effectiveness $2.15/CFM
≥ 65% to ≤ 74% sensible heat recovery effectiveness $2.50/CFM
≥ 75% to ≤ 84% sensible heat recovery effectiveness $2.90/CFM
≥ 85% sensible heat recovery effectiveness $3.30/CFM
Improved effectiveness
≥ 65% to ≤ 74% sensible heat recovery effectiveness $0.75/CFM
≥ 75% to ≤ 84% sensible heat recovery effectiveness $1.10/CFM
≥ 85% sensible heat recovery effectiveness $1.50/CFM
In-suite energy recovery ventilator (ERV)
No existing ERV or not required by code
≥ 55% to ≤ 64% sensible heat recovery effectiveness $200/unit
≥ 65% to ≤ 74% sensible heat recovery effectiveness $200/unit
≥ 75% to ≤ 84% sensible heat recovery effectiveness $200/unit
≥ 85% sensible heat recovery effectiveness $200/unit
Improved effectiveness
≥ 65% to ≤ 74% sensible heat recovery effectiveness $75/unit
≥ 75% to ≤ 84% sensible heat recovery effectiveness $125/unit
≥ 85% sensible heat recovery effectiveness $175/unit
In-suite heat recovery ventilator (HRV)
No existing HRV or not required by code
≥ 55% to ≤ 64% sensible heat recovery effectiveness $125/unit
≥ 65% to ≤ 74% sensible heat recovery effectiveness $125/unit
≥ 75% to ≤ 84% sensible heat recovery effectiveness $125/unit
≥ 85% sensible heat recovery effectiveness $125/unit
Improved effectiveness
≥ 65% to ≤ 74% sensible heat recovery effectiveness $40/unit
≥ 75% to ≤ 84% sensible heat recovery effectiveness $90/unit
≥ 85% sensible heat recovery effectiveness $150/unit

Free in-suite incentives

We’ll install free energy-saving upgrades in all eligible units.

Free in-suite incentives
Incentive
Low-flow showerheads Free
Heat reflector panels Free

Learn how heat reflectors improve the energy efficiency of your building

Recognized as a best practice in the Living Green Environmental Management Standards manual, heat reflectors are an energy-saving product designed for hot water heating systems in buildings built before 1980. Join Frank Snyder from Novitherm on how you can leverage the free in-suite upgrade for heat reflectors to prevent heat loss and improve resident comfort.

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Connect with an Energy Solutions Advisor

We’ll help you find ongoing savings and get your project underway.

Offers available to qualified participants only. Contact Enbridge Gas Inc. to confirm your eligibility. Additional terms and conditions may apply to specific offers. Enbridge Gas account must be in good standing. Must provide proof of purchase matched to installation address. Rates valid in Enbridge Gas franchise area (Ontario) only, between Jan. 1 and Nov. 30, 2023.

All forms and proof of purchase must be received by Enbridge Gas no later than Nov. 30, 2023. Enbridge Gas is not responsible for lost mail or mail disruptions. Allow 12 weeks for delivery of payment. Enbridge Gas does not guarantee the performance of installed equipment nor guarantee energy savings. We reserve the right to independently verify the information in all applications and to randomly select a number of locations to confirm installation. Offers are subject to cancellation without notice at any time.

Additional terms and conditions will be updated. Please contact us for more details on the terms and conditions.