Canada’s Home Electrification Toolkit
What is Canada’s Home Electrification Toolkit?
Home is where the heart is. It’s where people go to relax, pursue their personal interests, and take shelter from the outside world.
Sadly, for many Canadians, home can also be their largest source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. With natural gas, oil, and propane used in space and water heating, and with appliances and equipment like gas stoves, fireplaces, lawnmowers, and generators all relying on fossil fuel combustion, Canadian homes have many sources of emissions—and many options for decarbonization.
Electric equipment has many advantages, from emissions reduction to higher efficiency, improved comfort, reduced noise pollution and even long-term cost savings. Canada’s Home Electrification Toolkit is designed to help Canadians understand the electric options available and factors to consider when replacing their fuel-burning appliances with electric equivalents. Written in plain language with details on costs, implementation, and emissions reduction potential for a range of household equipment, the Toolkit is intended to empower homeowners to build a plan for what equipment to replace and when, learn about electric equipment so that they can talk knowledgeably with tradespeople, and spread the word to inspire others to start their own electrification journies.
White Label version
Are you a public-facing organization with an interest in building decarbonization? Want to strengthen your connection to your stakeholders by providing them with the most up-to-date information about electrifying their homes? Make Canada’s Home Electrification Toolkit your own with our white-label versions.
We’ve designed the Toolkit with a range of options to meet your organization’s needs by adding your logo and brand colours throughout, and to update national data with appropriate details for your city, region, or province. Whether you want to share the whole document or just a specific section, let us know and we can help you inform and empower your audience.
Who needs a toolkit?
Electrifying household equipment can be a daunting task for even the most ambitious homeowners. With many options to choose from in each area of the home, upgrades to wiring and electrical panels to navigate, and contractors potentially passing along outdated information and opinions, it can be hard to know where to begin.
That’s where Canada’s Home Electrification Toolkit comes in. The Toolkit is meant to help you empower your community on their electrification journey, providing clear, concise, and up-to-date information on space heating, cooking, fireplaces, home batteries and backup options, and other household equipment—all in a highly polished and beautifully illustrated package. In addition, the Toolkit also includes tips for renters, strategies for avoiding potentially costly electrical panel upgrades, and case studies from satisfied homeowners.
For the more technically inclined, the appendices provide details on operating costs and emissions by province and territory. All of it is intended to help Canadians experience the benefits of electrified equipment in a way that works with your home, your budget, and your timelines.
Creative Commons license
We want to get Canada’s Home Electrification Toolkit into the hands of every Canadian who is curious about the benefits of electrification, so we want it to be as straightforward as possible to share.
The Toolkit is published under a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license, which means you are free to share, reuse, adapt, and remix it is you see fit, with a few requirements:
Attribution: You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the Building Decarbonization Alliance endorses you or your use.
Non-commercial: You may not use the material for commercial purposes.
ShareAlike: If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original, with no added legal terms or technological restrictions added.
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