Important Notice The Canada Greener Homes Grant, funded by Natural Resources Canada and administered by Efficiency Nova Scotia, closed to new applicants in Nova Scotia on February 5, 2024. Existing participants may still be eligible for rebates of up to $5,100 but must complete their final Home Energy Assessment by November 30, 2025.

Smart Synergy

Get paid to reduce energy use in times of high demand

By shifting your organization's energy use during peak demand events, you can get rewarded and support Nova Scotia's transition to a cleaner electricity grid.

Discover how smarter energy use is resulting in serious savings for Trans-Atlantic Preforms.

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About the Program

Why Join

Besides earning financial incentives, here are some other reasons to enroll in Smart Synergy.

Incentives

Incentive examples

Enroll 100 kilowatts and drop this load for each event: Get $10,000 at the end of the season.
Enroll 200 kilowatts but the average load drop over 12 events is 160 kilowatts: Get $100 x (average kW) performance = $16,000.

How to Enroll

This program was created by Efficiency Nova Scotia in partnership with Nova Scotia Power and Parsons Corporation. For your free site assessment, please email Spencer Deveraux. Or, ask your Efficiency Nova Scotia Business Development Manager for enrollment details.

Contact: Spencer Deveraux, Senior Manager, Efficiency Nova Scotia Email: SDevereaux@efficiencyns.ca

Eligibility Criteria

General eligibility Open to businesses that can participate by manually shutting down equipment or through automation. Businesses must not be participating in and/or receiving incentives from an existing demand response or demand reduction program.

Eligible measures All measures that consume electricity are eligible. For example: HVAC, lighting, motors, pumping, etc.

Participant eligibility Participants must:

Be a Nova Scotia Power customer
Be the utility account holder
Have utility-provided interval metering capable of providing continuous interval data at a minimum granularity of fifteen minutes
Be on either a 10, 11, 12, 21, 22, or 23 rate code

Benefits

A greener energy future

Demand response energy management can help Nova Scotia avoid building costly new generating infrastructure. It can also help retire coal-fired generation, supporting the Province's transition to a cleaner electricity grid.