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Which Installers Near You Are on Ontario's Rebate Register?

Last updated: By HeatPumpIndex Evidence Desk

The rebate is not paid to you by whoever happens to hold a ladder. Ontario’s programme keeps a directory of contractors registered to do this work, and a company that is not on it cannot process the claim. Put in a postal code and this shows which of the 187 companies listed here that appear on that directory say they will travel to you.

Who near you is on the register

Only the first three characters are used, because that is the unit the register organises service areas by. The rest is ignored.

What are you putting in?

These are the register’s own categories, not ours. A company appears under a category because it registered for that category.

M5V

137

companies in this directory registered for the programme and naming M5V in their service area.

Across the whole programme, 296 registered contractors name M5V. This directory covers the Toronto and GTA end of that list.

The 8 highest scoring of them

129 more in this directory also name M5V. Ordered by the same HeatPumpIndex score the rest of the site uses.

Registered for, and nothing more. Appearing on this list means a company signed up to the programme named below. TheOntario Home Renovation Savings Program itself says Enbridge Gas and the IESO do not endorse any of the contractors on it, and neither does this page. Read from its heat pump contractor directory on 2026-08-03; check it there before you sign anything.

Why there is no dollar figure on this page

Every advertisement you have seen for this programme leads with a number and buries the condition attached to it. The condition is not a detail. What Ontario pays for a heat pump depends on the fuel your home burns today, and the gap between the two tiers is thousands of dollars in both directions: a household on gas that plans around the higher figure is badly out, and a household on oil or electric baseboards that sees only the lower one leaves real money behind.

So the amounts live where the condition can travel with them, on our rebate article and on the programme’s own page. What this tool does instead is answer the part that is a matter of public record and can be checked in thirty seconds: which of the companies listed here appear on the programme’s contractor directory, and which of those say they will come to your postal code.

That is a smaller claim than a dollar figure and a more useful one, because it is the claim that is actually verifiable. The directory is public. The link is under every result. Check the company there before you sign, not after.

How a company gets onto this list

It signs up. That is the whole mechanism, and being clear about it is the point. The programme publishes a contractor directory; HeatPumpIndex read that directory on 2026-08-03, when it held 1,145rows, and matched it against this site’s listings on website domain first, then phone number, then company name and city. 187 listings matched. The rest of the directory is real and simply falls outside the Greater Toronto Area, or belongs to companies this directory does not carry.

A match is a fact about paperwork, not about workmanship. The programme states plainly that Enbridge Gas and the IESO do not endorse any of the contractors on it, and this page repeats that under every result rather than tucking it into a footnote. A company being absent from the list is not a mark against it either: plenty of good installers have not registered, and some registered under a name or a domain this match could not see.

The service areas come from the register too. Each contractor names the postal prefixes it will travel to, and that is what the postal code box searches. It is the company’s own statement of where it works, not an estimate of driving distance from its address.

Frequently asked questions

Why does this page not tell me how much the rebate is?

Because the amount is conditional and the condition is the part that gets dropped. What Ontario pays turns on the fuel your home is heated with today, on the equipment meeting the programme's own requirements, and on the installer being registered. A figure quoted without the first of those is the single most misleading number in this trade, and this site has three separate build checks about it. The amounts, with the fuel condition attached to each of them, are on our rebate article and on the programme's own page, both linked below.

What does registered for the programme actually mean?

It means the company signed up to the programme and appears on its contractor directory. That is all it means. The programme states plainly that Enbridge Gas and the IESO do not endorse any of the contractors on it, and neither does this site. It is not a licence, not an inspection, not a quality check and not a recommendation. What it does tell you is practical rather than moral: a company that is not registered cannot process the rebate for you, so the paperwork either falls to you or does not happen.

How current is this list?

The register behind it was read from the programme's own contractor directory on 3 August 2026, and it carried 1,145 rows that day. Companies join and leave, so the directory is more current than this page will ever be and the link to it sits under every result. Treat this as a shortlist of companies that are both on that register and listed here, not as the register itself.

Why do so many companies serve my postal code?

Because contractors register the service areas they are willing to travel to, and in the GTA that is a wide net. Several hundred registered contractors name a typical Toronto prefix. That is why the list is ordered by the same HeatPumpIndex score the rest of this site uses rather than alphabetically, and why the number worth acting on is three written quotes rather than the whole list.

My postal code returns nothing. What now?

Two different things cause that. If the prefix is outside Toronto and the GTA, the register still reaches it but this directory does not list companies there, and the page says so with the programme-wide figure beside it. If no registered contractor names the prefix at all, the programme directory is the place to check next, because it is updated continuously and covers the whole province.

Does the installer have to be registered before the work starts?

That is the question to settle in writing before you sign, and it is the reason this page exists in the form it does. The programme sets its own conditions on who submits the claim and when, and a company that is not on the register at the moment the work is done is not in a position to file it. Ask for the registration to be confirmed on the quote, then check it against the programme directory yourself.

Where to go for the amounts

Two places, and both state the fuel condition rather than hiding it. Our own article works through what the tiers are, which homes fall in which one, and what registered does and does not mean. The programme’s directory is the live source for who is on the register today.

What to do with the shortlist

Three written quotes, from three companies on it. Ask each to confirm its registration on the quote itself, to state the equipment model and its rated capacity, and to say which of them is filing the claim and when. A quote that names a price and a system size but not a model cannot be compared with one that does.

Then check each name against the programme directory yourself. It takes a minute, it is the only step in this process that nobody can do on your behalf, and it is the reason this page links to that directory under every single result rather than asking you to take ours as the last word.