Retrofit Program — Prescriptive Stream

• Program Requirements
• Participant Agreement
• Participant Confirmation Form: Equipment Disposal and Decommissioning
• Custom Project Worksheet
• Solar PV DER Worksheet

Who is eligible?

• Owners and operators of industrial, commercial, institutional and multi-family residential buildings
• Persons with the rights and authority to have the Measures installed
• Social Housing Providers for the Social Housing Adder or SHP Advance Incentive

Eligible expenses

• Costs of the equipment purchased
• Costs of labour for equipment installed by a third party
• Costs of energy audits not funded by the IESO
• Costs of design, engineering and/or architecture
• Third party project management costs

Ineligible Costs and Activities

• Costs of the Participant's labour, service, administration or overhead that are not incurred by a third party
• Financing costs including, but not limited to, costs associated with financing, leasing and lease-to-own procurement arrangements and such other financing costs associated with leasing or borrowing capital
• Insurance costs
• Costs associated with post-installation work related to equipment maintenance or repair
• HST

Eligible geographic areas

• Ontario

• The IESO would like to thank you for your submissions. Each measure submitted for consideration to the Save on Energy Retrofit program is reviewed and screened.
• The evaluation of the submissions involves an in-depth, multi-stage review and approval process to ensure a measure addresses market needs and meets program requirements, including cost-effectiveness, and energy-efficiency policy objectives.

• Applications are submitted through the Retrofit portal.
• Please upload your invoice to the Retrofit portal.
• You can check out this brief video “Submitting a Final Invoice” for steps on how to upload your invoice.

• Once your application has been submitted it will be assigned to a technical reviewer.
• The pre-approval process will take about two to three weeks to complete.
• During this time, you will receive either a formal notice via the Retrofit portal and/or your Save on Energy representative that your project has been pre-approved, or your technical reviewer may notify you that your application requires further documentary evidence to support the application.
• Mandatory QA/QC is required for projects that exceed $20,000 in incentive value.
• Some applications for small projects that fall under these incentive amounts may be selected at random for QA/QC during the pre-approval and/or post-approval process.

• Applications are submitted through the Retrofit Portal.
• Retrofit program applications for lighting measures that have been submitted for pre-approval prior to or on December 17, 2023, and receive pre-approval by December 31, 2024 will continue to be eligible to receive the Retrofit program incentive after program requirements are met.
• Participants may choose either the Retrofit program or the Instant Discounts program, but not both for the same project.
• If you had an existing account in the previous system, you must reactivate your account using the same email address used for your previous account.