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Heat Pump Rebates in Oshawa
Oshawa is a gas city with an older-home twist: most homes heat with natural gas at the $500-a-ton rebate rate, while the older stock — baseboards, and oil furnaces still hanging on — sits in the $1,250 top tier. Your furnace room decides which story is yours.
What do Oshawa homes heat with?
Natural gas, mostly. Enbridge serves the bulk of Oshawa's housing, so the typical project is a heat pump paired with a new high-efficiency gas furnace — a dual-fuel setup that earns $500 per ton from Ontario, capped at $2,000. But Oshawa's older neighbourhoods tell a second story: wartime and postwar homes on electric baseboards, and a shrinking number of oil furnaces in the oldest stock. Those non-gas homes earn the top rate of $1,250 per ton, capped at $7,500. Electricity is Oshawa Power in the city.
What about Oshawa's older homes?
The oldest housing — around the downtown core and the early subdivisions — is where the interesting cases live: smaller homes, older panels, baseboards in homes that were never ducted. A baseboard home usually goes ductless or adds an air handler; a ducted gas home takes the dual-fuel pairing. Panel capacity gets checked at the in-home visit, before anything is quoted as final, because an older 100-amp service is the most common surprise in this stock.
What's the rebate math for a typical Oshawa home?
A gas-heated Oshawa home taking a 2.5-ton dual-fuel system: $1,250 from Ontario (2.5 × $500) plus $2,000 federal for installs dated November 1, 2026 or later. An older non-gas home at 2.5 tons: $3,125 from Ontario (2.5 × $1,250) plus the same federal line — and up to $10,000 federal instead of $2,000 if the household is below the median income. Same city, same program, very different cheques — which is why the checker asks about your fuel first.
Oshawa: check your rebate
Six quick questions about your home. Your estimate — Ontario rebate, federal rebate, net cost and your example monthly figure — is calculated the moment you finish.
Your estimate is on its way
A local advisor will call to confirm your exact number. Here's your estimate now:
Your estimated rebates
Example only — based on your numbers above: your net cost after both rebates, incl. 13% HST, spread over 240 months. Here's the move many homeowners make with that monthly: when the rebate cheque arrives, put it straight onto the financing — at a monthly like this, it covers about two years of payments on its own. Then put the money you're no longer spending on fuel each year onto the loan too, and the system is paid off years early.
Homes like yours often also price a ductless option — ask the advisor to run both.
| Estimated system size | — |
| Ontario Home Renovation Savings rebate | — |
| Federal rebate (announced — applications open early 2027) | — |
| Typical installed cost, full furnace + heat pump switch | — |
| Your net cost after both rebates | — |
| Example monthly figure (net incl. 13% HST ÷ 240) | — |
| What you'll spend on fuel in the next 5 winters if nothing changes | — |
| Estimated heating savings per year after switching | — |
The monthly figure is an example only. The installed range is a typical Ontario range, estimate only. The new system typically heats your home for roughly 45–55% of what oil or propane costs.
What happens next
We call you
A local advisor goes over your estimate and answers questions — no pressure, no obligation.
In-home visit
We measure, check your ductwork and panel, and confirm your exact rebate. Bring last winter's fuel invoices — the savings math gets very clear when it's your own numbers.
Rebate pre-approval filed
Before any work begins, your Ontario pre-approval is filed and your rebate is reserved while funding lasts.
Install — rebate cheque follows
The new system goes in, the claim is submitted, and your rebate cheque arrives, about 60 days after approval.
One date worth knowing
Installations on or after November 1, 2026 count toward the new federal rebate. If your install is being booked this fall, that date line can be worth $2,000 to $10,000 — ask about it on your call.
Estimates only. Your exact rebate is confirmed at the in-home visit, and Ontario rebate pre-approval is filed before any work begins.
Oshawa — common questions
I'm on gas in Oshawa. Is $500 a ton worth bothering with?
On a 2.5-ton system it's $1,250 from Ontario, plus $2,000 federal for a November 1, 2026 or later install — $3,250 toward a system whose heat pump also replaces your air conditioner and carries the mild-weather heating at high efficiency. The in-home visit confirms whether the pairing beats a straight furnace replacement for your house.
My Oshawa home heats with baseboards. What changes?
You're in the top tier: $1,250 per ton, capped at $7,500. Baseboard homes usually go ductless — heads in the main rooms — or add an air handler where the layout allows. Either way the rebate is paid per ton of capacity, and summer air conditioning comes with it.
Sources and estimates
The rebate figures on this page come from the official program sources: Ontario's Home Renovation Savings program (delivered with Save on Energy and Enbridge Gas) and the Government of Canada's National Heat Pump Rebate. Figures checked October 29, 2026. All amounts are estimates — your confirmed rebate and eligibility come from program pre-approval, filed by a participating contractor before installation.
Keep reading
Heat Pump Cost in Ontario
What each kind of system actually costs installed — before and after rebates.
Federal Rebate: Be First in Line
The new federal rebate pays $2,000 — up to $10,000 below the median income. Be first in line before the Ontario rules land.
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