Heat Recovery Ventilator

You can access LiveSmart BC grants for Heat Recovery Ventilators (HRVs). An HRV replaces stale indoor air with fresh outdoor air while helping to maintain the desired temperature in your home.

LiveSmart BC Grants for Heat Recovery Ventilators

 Interior/
Northern		South Coastal
Install an HVI certified ENERGY STAR Heat Recovery Ventilator and a house air tightness of 3ach@50Pa in Interior/Northern or 4.5 ach@50Pa in South Coastal$1000$800

(See LiveSmart BC grant chart, Terms and Conditions, and Notes to Contractors for complete eligibility information.)

As explained by the federal Office of Energy Efficiency, "a Heat Recovery Ventilator (HRV) is a mechanical ventilation device that helps make your home healthier, cleaner and more comfortable by continuously replacing stale indoor air with fresh outdoor air. HRVs are set apart from other mechanical ventilation devices by their ability to exchange heat between the supply and exhaust air streams, which in turn reduces the cost of heating or cooling the healthy fresh air that circulates through the home. HRVs are sometimes called air-to-air heat exchangers because they preheat or cool incoming air using exhaust air."(1)

Read more about Heat Recovery Ventilators.

1) Natural Resources Canada. 2009. Heat Recovery Ventilator Introduction. Accessed Aug. 3, 2010. http://oee.nrcan-rncan.gc.ca/Publications/infosource/Pub/hrv/intro.cfm?attr=8.

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