About this guide

Method

Each page is written from a document a public agency published: a territorial terms PDF, a news release, an NRCan program page, a climatic table from the National Research Council, a utility rate sheet, or a manufacturer page when the claim is about that manufacturer’s product. If those disagree, the terms or the regulation win over the news release, and the news release wins over a secondary summary. The disagreement is marked on the page.

Last updated October 17, 2026 means that is the day the pages were checked against those documents. It does not mean a program froze on that day. Rebates and rates move. The link under a figure is there so you can see if it has.

Which brand the examples use

Where a page needs an equipment example, this guide uses Daikin and Moovair. Those are the lines used by the contractor who maintains the guide and who is linked when a house needs to be sized. It is not a claim that either brand is the only cold-climate option, and it is not a claim that a model is on the Manitoba-and-Yukon list until the AHRI match is checked there. Other brands on that list may be cited when a comparison is useful and the number comes from that maker’s own sheet or from NRCan.

Corrections already made

• The transfer-switch rebate is 25 percent up to $2,000 on an existing building, not a flat grant of $2,000. Generlink meter collars are excluded.
• New-home dual fuel is a flat $15,000. New-home secondary heat is a flat $3,000.
• Good Energy’s heat pump rebate and the Affordable Heat Pump Program are still in the September 3, 2026 PDF. They cannot be combined with dual fuel.
• Dual fuel is for electrically heated buildings. An oil house that missed the July 31, 2026 federal window does not fall into the $15,000 stream by default.
• The NWT renewable-energy landing page names ground-source heat pumps. The 2026–27 guidelines PDF reviewed here does not list air-source heat pumps in its eligible-project bullets. Both statements are on the NWT page.
• Canada’s HFC phase-down is a consumption cap through 2036. It is not, in the federal documents cited, a ban on owning an R-410A heat pump.

Who this is not for

• Not a contractor’s brochure, and not a ranking of installers.
• Not an application, and not a decision of the Energy Branch, NRCan, the Arctic Energy Alliance, or Better Homes.
• Not an engineering design. The calculator’s watts-per-square-foot bins are printed on that page because they are assumptions, not measurements.
• Not advice for a diesel community, a log house, or a commercial building over 600 square metres, except where a cited rule says the limit out loud.

The link to allyukon.ca is a sizing offer. That contractor maintains this guide and installs Daikin and Moovair as its primary lines. The link does not approve a rebate.