{"id":138,"date":"2026-10-24T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scottmenges.com\/blog\/?p=138"},"modified":"2026-10-24T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T10:00:00","slug":"ottawa-unveils-2-billion-home-retrofit-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottmenges.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/24\/ottawa-unveils-2-billion-home-retrofit-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa unveils $2-billion home retrofit plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>Canada is launching a $2 billion home retrofit program to improve energy efficiency in 1 million homes, featuring a National Heat Pump Rebate for up to 820,000 households. Low-income households may receive up to $10,000, others $2,000, with no required energy audits and quick approvals. The plan also supports retrofits in 280,000 apartment units via mortgage insurance and infrastructure financing, replacing the Canada Greener Homes Loan program.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMilgFBVV95cUxPbjlrZzBYU0Nab3l1LW5GeVhBQ04wcllHWHV1S2IxcDRhQmFzbmExRml5bk1nWjZCdWo4WlVCZzRENmdtaFNYaUMxVnJaX1pIbmptTjF1aG9YNzF5bzJrYlNvYU11QlRIczZvcDluWWZJamlrbmlfZ04wclNxUHpMMVY2bmVkTmx0VS1SRlp1aU9qNng3Mnc?oc=5&amp;hl=en-US&amp;gl=US&amp;ceid=US:en\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada is launching a $2 billion home retrofit program to improve energy efficiency in 1 million homes, featuring a National Heat Pump Rebate for up to 820,000 households. Low-income households may receive up to $10,000, others $2,000, with no required energy audits and quick approvals. The plan also supports retrofits in 280,000 apartment units via [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":360,"featured_media":139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottmenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottmenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottmenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottmenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottmenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottmenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottmenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions\/140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottmenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottmenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottmenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottmenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}