Better Homes Kingston Program is a one-stop portal for Kingston residents to help them make their homes more energy-efficient and climate-friendly. Here, you’ll find all you need to navigate your home energy retrofit, including:
- How, why, and where to start to retrofit your home for energy savings
- Information on the Better Homes Kingston Program, incentives, and rebates to help you get the work done
- Services that will help you choose the right home improvements for your home.
Better Homes Kingston Program is a no-interest property loan program, which residents can repay via their property tax bill over a period of up to 20 years. There is no penalty for paying your loan off early. Planning to move? The loan is tied to your property and remains with the home. This means the next owner will inherit the loan—and benefit from the retrofits it helped realize.
Through the Better Homes Kingston Program, homeowners can get a no-interest loan of up to $40,000 (or 10 percent of the current value assessment of the home, whichever is less), to cover the cost of home energy improvements.
Improvements might include:
- Thermal envelope upgrades such as basement/attic/exterior wall insulation, window/door replacements)
- Mechanical systems, such as thermostats and controllers, air/ground source heat pumps, high-efficiency water heaters, solar hot water systems etc.
- Investment in renewable energy, such as solar photovoltaic systems, EV chargers (Level 2)
Learn more about Better Homes Kingston at https://www.cityofkingston.ca/resident/better-homes-kingston