Heat Pump Rebates in Greater Victoria (2026): Victoria, Saanich, Langford and Nearby

If you own a house in Victoria, Saanich, Oak Bay, Esquimalt, Langford, Colwood, View Royal or Sidney, the heat pump rebate you can get in 2026 comes down to how you heat your home now and your household income. The amounts run from $1,500 up to $13,000.

The city top-ups that used to sit on top of these have mostly gone, but BC Hydro is paying extra in some Victoria neighbourhoods (more on both below).

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1. What you can get, by how you heat your home

  • Natural gas: up to $13,000 through the Energy Savings Program if your income qualifies. Above the income limits, FortisBC’s $4,000 dual fuel rebate is the one that’s left.
  • Oil: up to $13,000 through the Energy Savings Program if your income qualifies. Above the limits, there’s no heat pump rebate for oil-heated homes in southern BC right now.
  • Electric (baseboards or an electric furnace): $4,000 from BC Hydro for a whole home heat pump or $1,500 for a partial one, at any income. Lower-income households can get $5,000 through the Energy Savings Program instead, and some Victoria postal codes get a BC Hydro top-up on top.

2. The Energy Savings Program (if your income qualifies)

The Energy Savings Program (ESP) pays the most, but it’s income-tested. For a family of four the limits are $94,900 for Level 1, $118,600 for Level 2 and $189,800 for Level 3 (the checker works it out for other household sizes). For a gas, propane or oil home switching to a central ducted or 3-head heat pump, ESP pays up to:

  • $13,000 at Level 1
  • $7,000 at Level 2
  • $3,500 at Level 3

Smaller systems get less (a single mini-split is $5,500 at Level 1). If your home is heated with electricity, ESP pays $5,000 at Level 1 only, and Levels 2 and 3 use the standard electric rebate instead.

Two rules catch people out. You have to pre-register and get an eligibility code before the install, and the old gas, propane or oil heating has to come out. Your home’s assessed value matters too: over $1.2 million you can only get Level 3, and over $1.82 million ESP isn’t available at all.

3. Gas homes: FortisBC’s $4,000 dual fuel rebate

If you heat with natural gas and your income is above the ESP limits, this is the main rebate left. FortisBC pays $4,000 at any income when you replace a gas furnace that’s at least 15 years old with a central ducted heat pump and a new high-efficiency gas furnace. On Vancouver Island the furnace can only take over when it’s 5°C or colder outside, so the heat pump still does most of the heating.

It can’t be combined with other provincial or FortisBC rebates. Lower-income households can get up to $8,000 through FortisBC’s income-qualified version instead. Our furnace rebate guide has the full rules.

4. Electric homes: the BC Hydro rebate

Greater Victoria is on BC Hydro for electricity, so if you heat with baseboards or an electric furnace, BC Hydro pays $4,000 for a heat pump that heats the whole home or $1,500 for one that covers at least half of it. There’s no income test. The $4,000 has a few extra rules (a heat load calculation, and a multi-split or ducted system for homes over 1,200 sq. ft.), which our BC Hydro rebate guide goes through.

BC Hydro pays an extra top-up in parts of Victoria (select neighbourhoods). If your postal code is eligible and you switch from electric heat to a heat pump, you get another $4,000 for a whole home system or $1,500 for a partial one, on top of the standard rebate (so up to $8,000 or $3,000 in total). There’s nothing extra to apply for, since BC Hydro adds it based on the install address, but you can check your postal code on BC Hydro’s community offers page.

5. Local top-ups and programs in Greater Victoria

Saanich, Sidney, North Saanich and the CRD used to add $350 to the provincial heat pump rebates. Those top-ups no longer appear on the province’s rebate site, and the CRD, Saanich and Sidney pages don’t list one now, so we wouldn’t budget for one. Two local programs are still worth knowing about:

  • Saanich heat pump financing: up to $12,000 at 0% interest, paid back over 10 years through your property taxes, for Saanich homes heated with oil, natural gas or propane. It runs in intakes and the latest one closed on October 13, 2026, so keep an eye on Saanich’s financing page for the next one. The financing agreement has to be signed before any work starts.
  • Home Energy Navigator: a free service in Greater Victoria that helps homeowners compare quotes and find the rebates that apply to them (homeenergynav.ca).

Thinking about solar panels as well? BC Hydro has separate rebates for solar and home batteries. Our sister site covers solar panel rebates in Victoria.

6. How to get the rebate

  1. Run the free checker to see which program you’re likely in.
  2. If it’s ESP, pre-register on the Energy Savings Program portal and get your code before you book the install.
  3. Get quotes from contractors registered for that program. For the BC Hydro, FortisBC and dual fuel rebates that means a Home Performance Contractor Network member (our HPCN guide shows how to check).
  4. After the install, ESP pays your contractor directly and you pay the difference. BC Hydro and FortisBC rebates are applied for online within six months of the invoice.

If you want to combine a heat pump with insulation or windows, our rebate stacking guide covers what can and can’t be combined.

Somewhere else in BC? We also have pages for Kelowna and the Okanagan, Vancouver, Burnaby, Richmond, New Westminster and Surrey, the Fraser Valley and Nanaimo and the Mid-Island.

This page was checked against betterhomesbc.ca, BC Hydro, FortisBC and the CRD, Saanich and Sidney websites on October 28, 2026. BC elected a new provincial government on October 24, 2026, and program rules could change. The federal government announced a National Heat Pump Rebate on October 8, 2026 (up to $10,000 for below-median-income households, $2,000 for others). Heat pumps installed from November 1, 2026 can count, and applications open in early 2027. We keep track of it on our National Heat Pump Rebate page at rebatecheck.ca.

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