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Canada’s new heat pump rebate is worth up to $10,000. Get an email the day it opens
Applications are not open yet. Ottawa says they open in early 2027, and that you can add this rebate on top of provincial ones.
- Up to $10,000
- if your household earns below the median income
- $2,000
- for other homeowners who qualify
Stack it with the Alberta rebate open today
Ottawa says you can combine them. Each program has its own rules. Amounts are the most you can get.
Applications open early 2027
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The number
The Oil to Heat Pump Affordability Program (OHPA) is a federal program, delivered directly in provinces without their own agreement — Alberta, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Quebec, and Saskatchewan. It offers up to $10,000 toward switching an oil furnace to a cold-climate heat pump.
As of January 2026, federal program statistics showed Alberta had received 16 applications and issued 1 grant. Compare that to provinces with active provincial delivery partners, where participation ran into the hundreds or thousands.
Why this happened
Almost nobody in Alberta heats with oil in the first place — oil heating is far more common in rural Atlantic Canada and parts of Quebec, where furnace-oil delivery trucks are still a normal part of winter. OHPA was built for that population. Applying it to Alberta, where natural gas dominates home heating, means the program simply doesn't match the province it's supposed to serve.
That's the deeper problem: Alberta doesn't just have weak uptake of a federal program — it has no functioning provincial heat pump rebate of its own to fill the gap. When the one federal tool available doesn't fit the local heating mix, there's nothing else in place.
What actually exists in Alberta
- CEIP — financing, not a rebate. A property-tax-attached loan.
- ENMAX/ATCO utility rebates — $500-$2,000 per heat pump, described by installers as changing "throughout the year."
- Zero solar, battery, or EV charger rebate at the provincial level.
Some Alberta cities do better than the provincial baseline — Calgary runs a free Home Upgrades Program for income-qualified residents, Lethbridge has its own municipal utility rebate, St. Albert adds a $1,400 CEIP bonus. But none of that changes the province-wide picture: a single-digit application count for the one federal tool meant to help.
The comparison that matters
We ranked every Canadian province with meaningful rebate activity by realistic total dollar value, program coherence, and whether the money is actually flowing. Alberta landed near the bottom — not because of population or climate ambition, but because there's genuinely very little here for a homeowner to claim.
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