Resources: Community Efficiency Financing

Are you looking for tools and lessons learned to implement a financing program in your community? Our Community Efficiency Financing initiative helps municipalities deliver local financing programs for home-energy upgrades.

From guidebooks to case studies, this resource library provides useful information and tools for designing or scaling up your local municipal program.  

Learn more about:

• Innovative financing mechanisms to advance your municipality’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction projects
• How to establish an effective PACE program quickly and economically
• Key considerations for on-bill financing programs
• The range of energy efficiency financing tools currently in use in North America
• And much more

We’ll continue to update this page with additional resources as they become available.

Please note, all files appear in the language in which they were provided.

Understanding energy efficiency financing

• Community Efficiency Financing Market Guide (FCM's Green Municipal Fund)
• Financing Residential Energy Savings: Assessing Key Features of Residential Energy Retrofit Financing Programs (Smart Prosperity Institute)
• Database of Enabling Policies – Support for Financing (Efficiency Canada)
• E-learning course: Planning a Community Efficiency Financing program (FCM's Green Municipal Fund)

Program design and implementation

• Factsheets: Community Efficiency Financing (FCM's Green Municipal Fund)
• Building Energy Retrofit Bundling Programs: Report & Recommendations for the City of Vancouver (Collaborative for Advanced Landscape Planning [CALP] and Integral Group)
• Residential Archetyping for Energy Efficiency Programs – A Guide for Canadian Municipalities (Clean Air Partnership)
• Overview of amendments to Ontario Regulation 586/06 – Local Improvements on Private Property by Agreement (Clean Air Partnership)

Equity considerations

• Guidebook on equitable clean energy program design for local governments and partners (Urban Sustainability Directors Network [USDN] and The Cadmus Group)
• USDN Equity in Energy Transformation and Innovation Case Study: Craft3 Home Energy Loan Program (Craft3)
• Considerations of Equity in an Efficiency Financing Program (Kambo Energy Group and Reep Green Solutions)

Credit enhancement

• Credit enhancement overview guide (State and Local Energy Efficiency Action Network)

Program snapshot

• AB: Town of Banff CEIP (Town of Banff)
• AB: City of Calgary CEIP (City of Calgary)
• AB: Canmore CEIP (Town of Canmore)
• AB: City of Cold Lake CEIP (City of Cold Lake)
• AB: Devon CEIP (Town of Devon)
• AB: City of Grande Prairie CEIP (City of Grande Prairie)
• AB: Leduc CEIP (City of Leduc)
• AB: City of Lethbridge CEIP (City of Lethbridge)
• AB: City of Medicine Hat CEIP (City of Medicine Hat)
• AB: Town of Okotoks CEIP (Town of Okotoks)
• AB: Rocky Mountain House CEIP (Town of Rocky Mountain House)
• AB: City of St. Albert CEIP (City of St. Albert)
• AB: Strathcona County CEIP (Strathcona County)
• AB: Sturgeon County CEIP (Sturgeon County)
• AB: Town of Westlock CEIP (Town of Westlock)
• BC: Heat Pump Financing Program (District of Saanich)
• BC: HomeZero Collective Pilot Project (City of Vernon)
• NS: Energize Bridgewater (Town of Bridgewater)
• NS: Carbon-Free Colchester (Municipality of Colchester)
• NS: Switch Wolfville (Town of Wolfville)
• ON: Durham Greener Homes (Regional Municipality of Durham)
• ON: Guelph Greener Homes (City of Guelph)
• ON: Retrofit Halton Hills (Town of Halton Hills)
• ON: Better Homes Kingston (City of Kingston)
• ON: Better Homes Ottawa (City of Ottawa)
• ON: Home Energy Efficiency Program (City of Peterborough)
• ON: Home Energy Loan Program (City of Toronto)
• PE: Switch Charlottetown (City of Charlottetown)
• PE: Switch Stratford (Town of Stratford)
• SK: Home Energy Loan Program (City of Saskatoon)