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New homes

Our Power Smart New Home Program offers financial incentives and marketing support to builders and developers who build qualified energy-efficient single-family homes*, townhomes, or multi-family residential buildings.

Qualified homes receive a Power Smart Silver or Gold label and an EnerGuide rating. The label and EnerGuide rating ensure buyers that they are purchasing a home that will help them save money year after year – a Power Smart home.

* Power Smart labels single-family homes and townhouses, performance rated through the services of a Cerifited Energy Evaluator under the auspices of the EnerGuide Rating Service.

Check out these Power Smart labelled developments.

New Construction Program

The Power Smart New Construction Program is designed for commercial, institutional and multi-unit residential new developments or major building retrofits. We offer Power Smart tools, incentives and assistance to help design and implement energy efficient measures in new construction. To find out more, contact us or call 1 866 522 4713.

Passive Design Toolkit now available

The Passive Design Toolkit is a resource co-developed between the City of Vancouver and BC Hydro Power Smart.

The tool kits provide best practices for energy efficiency and sustainable construction in new homes and larger buildings. The City of Vancouver Passive Design Program aims to not only educate City staff and the development community about green building techniques but to align regulations and bylaws, making it easier to design and construct green buildings.

For further information, view the City of Vancouver's Passive Design Toolkit Best Practices for Large Buildings document [PDF, 3.2 Mb] and City of Vancouver's Passive Design Toolkit Best Practices for Homes document [PDF, 4.9 Mb].