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It is now even easier for Canadians to do their part to reduce greenhouse gases on climate change by a new federal incentive, the motivation to improve the energy efficiency of your home.

This autumn, buildings and dwellings, renovations are committed, an incentive to $ 3348, if they can prove that the project has more energy at home more efficient. The incentive program is part of the EnerGuide for Houses, Natural Resources Canada’s Office of Energy Efficiency in 1998, around the house and housing and implementation of upgrades in energy efficiency.

With the EnerGuide for Houses service, an independent energy advisor visits the house, a cave-to-attic of the energy assessment, energy efficiency rating and recommends measures to reduce consumption energy while ensuring a healthy environment to live. According to the owner of all or part of the recommended updates, the Advisor monitoring-evaluation and provides the energy yield.

Among the improvements are often recommended sealing and weatherstripping around windows and doors, upgrading and isolation are replaced old, inefficient heating. In addition to reducing energy costs and increase comfort, these measures are good for the environment - the less energy a home, minus the emissions of greenhouse gases produced.

Now the government of Canada has an incentive to ensure that the new owners eligible for some of its investments, if they improved by an adviser EnerGuide for Houses. The amount of the incentive is calculated on the basis of the assessment at home before and after the upgrades are - the greater the improvement, the more incentive.

The incentive is part of the government strategy for the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol, Canada committed to reducing greenhouse gases to 6% below 1990 levels by 2012. Owner, after the renovation of the EnerGuide for Houses service means to achieve energy savings of 32% and reduce greenhouse gases by 2.2 tonnes per year, with these families on the path of achievement of the Government of challenge for Canadians, for their production staff of greenhouse gases by one tonne per year.