Residential Gas Fireplaces

At a Glance

Category

planning

Status

deactivated

Fuel type

gas

Sector

residential

Applications

HVAC

Measure Deactivated. Residential fireplace savings are based on heating application, however, even the most efficient fireplaces are an inefficient heating appliance with efficiencies well under 80%. Decorative use of fireplaces may not result in any savings. Fireplace savings mechanism is unclear as almost all new fireplaces already utilize intermittent ignition (no standing pilot). Latest midstream rebate data (2020-2023) indicated that current practice baseline efficiency (FE) was 69% for existing homes and 54% for new homes.

Workbook

Latest Version

Residential Gas Fireplace v1.2

Residential Gas Fireplace v1.2

Updated cost effectiveness using procost version 5.08

Date

Jul 18, 2023

Version number

1.2

Past Versions

version	date	document
1.1	Nov 15, 2022	Residential Gas Fireplace v1.1 Approved at the September 2022 RTF meeting. QC Complete.
1.0	Oct 03, 2022	Residential Gas Fireplace v1.0 Adopted at the September 2022 RTF meeting. Currently undergoing QC.

Decisions

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Latest decision

Decision details

Decided

September 16, 2025

Deactivate Measure

Decision Details

Deactivate the Residential Gas Fireplaces UES measure.

Decided

September 20, 2022

Adopt New Measure

Decision Details

Adopt the Residential Gas Fireplace measure as presented and:

Reduce the hours of use in new construction to 5 hrs/week
Set the Category to Planning
Set the Status to Active
Set the sunset date to September 30, 2025

UES Measure