ÉcoPerformance — Simplified Implementation

• Electronic financial assistance application form
• Energy invoices covering 12 months
• Photos of the equipment to be replaced, if applicable
• Property assessment roll for the site and a proxy, if required
• Any other relevant document, such as an operating schedule or quota document

Who is eligible?

• Businesses in commercial, institutional, industrial, agricultural, or manufacturing sectors that are legally constituted under Quebec or Canadian law and have an active establishment in Quebec
• Health, social services, higher education, education, and educational childcare network establishments
• Non-budgetary bodies, municipal organizations, and consortia of legal persons represented by a delegated participant
• Social economy enterprises, sole proprietors, and Indigenous communities or nations recognized by the National Assembly
• Small and medium energy consumers applying under the Simplified Implementation stream

Who is not eligible

• Large energy consumers
• Quebec ministries, budgetary bodies, certain Quebec government enterprises, persons designated by the National Assembly, and federal ministries or agencies
• Applicants that are in default on prior Quebec government financial assistance obligations or that are bankrupt or insolvent
• Applicants active in the production or commercialization of a cannabis product not approved by Health Canada, applicants that fail public integrity expectations, and applicants listed in the RENA
• Owners of ineligible residential building types, including houses, duplexes, triplexes, certain cottages, and certain smaller multiresidential buildings

Eligible expenses

• Purchase and upgrading costs for equipment, including equipment required to measure energy consumption
• Engineering work costs
• Installation costs
• Commissioning, calibration, and professional fees
• Distributor contribution fees required to carry out an energy conversion

Ineligible Costs and Activities

• Salaries and benefits of the participant’s employees
• Administrative and management fees
• Production losses, waste, taxes and duties, maintenance costs, and compliance upgrade costs
• Land purchases, energy purchases, and costs incurred to prepare the financial assistance application
• Expenses that are not necessary, not justifiable, not directly tied to the project, non-measurable, incurred before the expense eligibility date, or paid to an ineligible subcontractor

Eligible geographic areas

• Quebec

• Submit the electronic financial assistance application form with the required supporting documents.
• Wait for confirmation that the project is eligible and for the expense eligibility date.
• Complete the approved work within 24 months.
• When the work is finished, submit the payment request with the required invoices and project photos.

• MELCCFP confirms in writing the date from which project expenses are eligible.
• The full financial assistance amount is paid in a single instalment after the required accountability data are submitted.
• Payments are conditional on meeting the program’s follow-up and reporting requirements.
• At the end of the project, the total financial assistance is recalculated based on the project’s actual data and may be revised downward.

• This stream is designed for uniform, rapid, low-complexity projects with predefined financial assistance.
• Applications are handled according to their date of receipt, but funding announcements are not necessarily issued in that order.
• Meeting the eligibility criteria does not guarantee that financial assistance will be awarded.