After...quite a bit of paperwork...I've completed most of the long cycle of the #Canada Green Energy Loan, for the purchase of a heat-pump. Over the past 10 months....
enroll
pre-audit
detailed quotes from vendors
commit to quote and arrange vendor financing
work is completed
post-audit
submit post audit and get govt. financing released
pay off the vendor's financing
I continue to wait for about $7k in grants to come from the grant program, which I expect will be a long while
it's a challenging program and a lot of work for homeowners. The Ontario govt. has Enbridge slow-rolling the grants so I think it will be another 6 months before I see that.
Since govts. are unreliable about keeping these programs going, there's always a rush to get in and get qualified before they rug-pull the homeowners like Harper did, and leave you with an unexpectedly large bill.
It's not possible to have multiple open loans/grants....
I would've kept the whole thing open a lot longer and done more retrofits, or done additional projects, like solar, insulation, EV charger.
If I do those, I'll be on my own, since I can't amend my arrangements with the loan/grant programs, and I can't have more than 1.
Personally, I feel the LPC designs programs this way on purpose. Loudly proclaim the progressive benefit, but make it super-hard to participate and let the private sector administer it to mostly avoid the actual benefits.
maybe private sector participation in program administration is a good way of futureproofing it against conservative kleptocracy, who'd face resistance cancelling a program that lines the pockets of their friends.
After all, the CPC don't gaf about canning some public servants, but losing the big donation of Bob's accounting that's been laundered into 63 shockingly maximum donations from each of his exactly 63 impoverished clerical workers....anyway...that's a another thread. #cdnpoli#onpoli
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