How much you get
Enbridge Gas customers (switching from gas)
Cold-climate air-source: $500/ton, up to $2,000.
Enbridge Gas customers, ground-source
Flat rebate for ground-source systems.
Electric, oil, propane, or wood heat
Cold-climate air-source: $1,250/ton, up to $7,500.
Electric, oil, propane, or wood, ground-source
$2,000/ton, up to $12,000.
The unit must be on Natural Resources Canada's qualified products list for cold-climate air-source or ground-source heat pumps.
What you'll actually save each month
Burlington Hydro sets the wires you're on, but not the price of what runs through them — that's the Ontario Energy Board's job, and it's the same rate whether you're on the lake in Burlington or two hours away in Sudbury. Here's what it actually costs right now.
- Electricity, OEB Regulated Price Plan (Nov 2025–Oct 2026): 9.8¢/kWh off-peak, 15.7¢/kWh mid-peak, 20.3¢/kWh on-peak for time-of-use accounts, averaging 12.8¢/kWh; tiered accounts pay 12.0¢/kWh then 14.2¢/kWh once you cross the monthly threshold. (OEB price report, source →)
- Natural gas (Enbridge): no single defensible number — delivery rates differ by zone and reset quarterly. (Look up this quarter's Enbridge rate →)
What makes a cold-climate heat pump worth the upfront cost is its coefficient of performance — it moves 2.5 to 3.5 units of heat into your house for every unit of electricity it uses, rather than converting electricity to heat 1-for-1 like baseboards do. Whether that beats your current gas bill depends on the quarter's Enbridge rate and your home's insulation, so there's no single "you'll save $X" figure that's honest for every Burlington house.
Get a number specific to your house: our free assessment tool factors in your current heating bill and system, not a citywide average.
How to claim it
- Complete the eligibility form on the Save on Energy portal
- Select a participating HVAC contractor
- Get mandatory pre-installation approval before work starts
- Installation is completed
- Contractor submits the post-installation application
- Rebate cheque arrives within 60 days of approval
Heat Pump installers in Burlington
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Common questions
How much is the heat pump rebate in Burlington?
It depends on your current heating fuel. Enbridge Gas customers get up to $2,000 for an air-source heat pump or $3,000 for ground-source. If you heat with electric, oil, propane, or wood, you get up to $7,500 (air-source) or $12,000 (ground-source). This is the same structure across all of Ontario.
Is a heat pump worth it in Burlington's winters?
Yes, as long as you get a cold-climate model, which the rebate requires anyway. Ontario winters regularly dip below -15°C, but modern cold-climate heat pumps keep working well past -25°C.
How does heat pump installation work in Burlington?
Get two or three quotes, make sure the unit is a cold-climate model on the federal qualified list, have it installed, then apply on homerenovationsavings.ca with your invoice. No energy assessment is needed for the heat pump rebate.
Burlington Hydro and your electrical panel
Burlington runs its own utility, Burlington Hydro, not one of the bigger regional players like Alectra that cover most of the GTA around it. That distinction matters less for the rebate itself (the amounts above come from the province, regardless of who's on your bill) and more for the practical side of the install: Burlington Hydro is who your electrician calls if a heat pump means upgrading your panel, and it's a smaller utility than most of its neighbours, which some installers say makes for faster turnaround on service upgrade requests. Nobody's officially confirmed a Burlington Hydro-specific rebate stacking on top of the provincial program; if you find one, that's worth a call to us so we can add it here.
How cold does it actually get on the lake?
Burlington sits right on Lake Ontario, and that proximity does something real to the winter numbers: the lake moderates temperature swings enough that the city's 10-year average January low (-7.2°C) runs noticeably milder than inland Ontario cities at the same latitude. The coldest single night on record over that decade was -26.2°C — a real outlier, not the norm. A cold-climate heat pump, the kind this rebate requires, is rated well past that, so the lake effect here works in your favour rather than against it.
What to do next
- Get two or three quotes from local heating contractors. Ask each one to do a room-by-room heat loss calculation, not a guess based on square feet.
- Make sure the model is a cold-climate air source (or ground source) heat pump on Natural Resources Canada's qualified list. The rebate requires it.
- No home energy assessment is needed for the heat pump rebate. Your contractor installs it, then you apply on homerenovationsavings.ca with your invoice.
- Keep the invoice showing the model number and size in tons. The rebate is paid per ton, so the size matters.
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Sources, checked September 26, 2026: Home Renovation Savings, HRS heat pump rebates.