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Mike Campbell didn't pay a penny upfront when his new air-source heat pumps were installed this spring to replace his old oil boiler.

As a bonus, PACE Atlantic also provides lots of services to make things easier for homeowners, from helping them navigate incentives like the Canada Greener Homes Grant to recommending contractors.

For many Canadian towns and cities, fossil fuels burned to provide heat and hot water to buildings are a huge source of greenhouse gas emissions.

Announcing a new program in Guelph, Ont., this month, Bryan Ho-Yan, the city's manager of corporate energy and climate change, said the goal is to "help the community reduce emissions in an affordable way."

Boyle says each of the participating homes in PACE Atlantic's programs are cutting greenhouse gas emissions by an average of 45 per cent or 5.72 tonnes a year.

McIlroy also points out that while these programs are popular with homeowners, they don't reach everyone — for example, they tend to leave out renters, landlords and larger apartment buildings.

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