Arctic Energy Alliance (AEA) has energy experts dedicated to helping your business, community government or non-profit organization conserve energy and improve its energy efficiency. If you are interested in saving money by reducing the amount of heating fuel, electricity and water used, or want to reduce your greenhouse gas emissions, this program is for you. Additionally, businesses can get rebates for completing energy-related building upgrades.
REBATE APPLICATIONS CLOSED
Updated Aug. 6, 2025. We are not currently accepting applications for business rebates. We’ve reached the limit for the number of applications we can accept this year. We will begin accepting applications again on April 1, 2026.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: Due to the requirements of the AEA’s funders, LED lighting retrofits are no longer eligible for rebates.
What Services Do We Offer?
We offer various services based on the type of organization.
Businesses
- Education and free advice
- Building energy audits
- Rebates
Community Governments
- Education and free advice
- Building energy audits
- Project coordination
Non-profit Organizations
- Education and free advice
Education and Free Advice
We offer education and free advice to businesses, community governments and non-profits to help you better understand how to save energy and reduce costs. Have a question? Contact us today.
Building Energy Audits: Investigate Ways to Save
For businesses and community governments, we offer two types of energy audit. Both can help you find the best ways to save energy in your building so you can decide which upgrade projects to take on.
How it Works
Desktop (Yardstick) Audits
If you want to investigate potential savings before starting an energy upgrade project, AEA can analyze your utility bills for free to see where energy savings might be possible. This is called a yardstick energy audit.
You can apply for a yardstick audit using the form at the bottom of this page.
On-site (Targeted) Audits
If you would like to go even further, an AEA energy advisor can then meet with you at your building and audit your building’s heating equipment and controls, ventilation equipment and controls, air leakage, equipment that uses water, and your building’s lighting and lighting controls, and let you know how to get the most energy savings for the least amount of money. You can then use the audit report to help you decide what work you want to do.
- Businesses: free
- Community governments: we charge a fee for building energy audits, but you may be eligible for a $3,750 subsidy toward the cost
Rebates for Businesses
The AEA provides rebates of up to $50,000 for energy upgrades to buildings owned by businesses. The rebate amount you receive will be the lower of:
- 50% of the total eligible costs of your project
- A calculation based on the amount of money and greenhouses gases that your project will save (see the program guidelines for more information)
AEA staff can help you figure out what your rebate will be before you spend any money. Rebate cheques for eligible expenses are issued by AEA after the building upgrades are completed, installations confirmed and copies of invoices and receipts have been received by AEA.
Rebates are distributed on a first-come, first-served basis, subject to pre-approval and availability of funds.
You must complete your project within 4 months of receiving pre-approval for your rebate.
How It Works
First Steps
We encourage you to contact us to discuss your potential energy-saving project and the rebates you can receive from AEA.
This conversation will help you determine whether to go through the process of having a desktop energy audit done or the simpler process of submitting receipts. A desktop audit can help you decide if a free on-site energy audit is warranted. You will then complete your paperwork and submit it to us.
Investigating Savings
If you want to investigate potential savings before starting an energy upgrade project, AEA can conduct a building energy audit for you.
Cost Estimates
Once you’ve decided what kind of building upgrades you want:
- Get an estimate of how much the upgrades will cost and work with your energy advisor to fill in a rebate pre-approval form. (We can only guarantee you a rebate if your application has been pre-approved before you start the work.)
- We will let you know what rebate you can expect once the work is done.
Start Your Project
- Complete your project within 4 months of being pre-approved.
- Submit final, paid invoices to AEA within 1 month of completing your project.
Receive Rebates
Once you send the AEA all your receipts and additional paperwork, we can calculate your rebate. One year after you’ve completed your energy upgrades, we can provide, free of charge, a follow-up yardstick energy audit so that you realize your energy and financial savings. If you already know what energy upgrades you want to undertake, how much they will cost and your anticipated energy, water and money savings, get in touch with us to pre-approve the building energy upgrades, then send us a copy of all your receipts to process your rebate.
How to Apply
Apply Online – Business Rebates
We are not currently accepting applications for business rebates. (Updated Aug. 6, 2025.)
