If you own or manage an eligible purpose-built rental apartment, hotel, motel or care home in British Columbia, the FortisBC Rental Apartment Efficiency Program pays for a full building energy assessment, plus efficiency products supplied and installed at no cost to you or your tenants. BES is an authorised consultant on the programme: we carry out the assessment, handle the application, and take the incentives through to payment.
A BES engineer walks the mechanical rooms, common areas and a sample of suites, records nameplate data on every major system, and identifies the no cost and low cost measures worth doing first. Funded by FortisBC, at no cost to the building owner.
Water-efficient showerheads and kitchen and bathroom faucet aerators direct-installed in each unit, cutting hot water demand from day one. Buildings in FortisBC's electricity service area also receive up to ten LED bulbs per unit.
Once the quick wins are in, we scope the larger retrofits: boiler and hot water replacement, heat recovery, controls and envelope. Then we line up the FortisBC incentives that pay for them, from quotes and contractor selection through to the incentive cheque.
Not sure whether your building qualifies? Send us the address and the FortisBC account and we will confirm in a day, before anything is committed.
FortisBC publishes the programme formally as the energy efficiency for rental apartments and accommodations program. Terms are reviewed annually, so we confirm current eligibility against your account before any site work is booked.
Official programme information: FortisBC — Energy efficiency for rental apartments and accommodations program · FortisBC programme FAQs
Twenty minutes to confirm building type, unit count, fuels and rate class, and to pick a date. No cost, no obligation.
We prepare and submit the FortisBC application on your behalf. Allow a minimum of thirty days for FortisBC to process it. Approval comes before any site work.
A BES engineer surveys the mechanical rooms, common areas and a sample of suites. We need access to plant rooms and, under the BC Residential Tenancy Act, you give tenants proper notice before suite access.
A written assessment with costed measures, energy savings, incentive value, payback and carbon impact, sealed under our EGBC permit.
Showerheads, aerators and, where eligible, LED bulbs are installed on a weekday schedule agreed with your building manager. A building representative accompanies the installers.
For the larger retrofits we support tendering and construction review, then verify the completed work so the incentive is paid.
We have delivered utility-funded assessments across British Columbia for fifteen years. The report is sealed by a professional engineer, the application paperwork is ours to handle, and the same team stays with the building from the screening call through to the incentive cheque.
Yes. FortisBC funds the assessment and the in-suite products for eligible buildings, and BES applies for that funding on your behalf. There is no charge to the building owner and no cost passed to tenants.
Purpose-built rental apartment buildings, hotels and motels with nine or more rental units, plus private retirement and care homes, on a FortisBC commercial rate class with central gas or central electric water heating. Send us the address and account and we will confirm.
FortisBC needs a minimum of thirty days to process the application. After approval, the site visit is a single day for most buildings and the written report follows within two to four weeks.
For a sample of suites during the assessment, and for every participating suite at installation. Under the BC Residential Tenancy Act you give tenants proper written notice; FortisBC can supply common-area posters to remind them of the date.
You receive a costed measure list with savings, incentive values and payback. We then help scope, tender and claim on whichever of the larger upgrades you decide to pursue.
No. The free products stay in regardless. What you do beyond them, and when, is entirely your decision.
Programme details, incentive values and terms are published and administered by FortisBC. BES is an authorised programme consultant, not the programme administrator. Terms are reviewed annually, so we confirm current eligibility against your FortisBC account before any site work is booked.
Reviewed September 2026 against the FortisBC programme terms. Related: All Funding Programmes · Energy Assessment Services · Talk To The Vancouver Office.
