Welcome to the 2025 Calgary Eco-Solar Home Tour! On this page you will find the homes that will be open for this year's tour and links to details of each home. Use these details to choose the homes you want to visit on the tour days. Check the opening times for the homes in the detail sheets below and make your way to the homes at the times they are open. Our homeowners and volunteers will be happy to show you around. We'll see you on the tour!
Calgary Day 1
Saturday 14 June 2025
Noon* to 5 pm
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Calgary Day 2
Sunday 15 June 2025
Noon* to 5 pm
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*Some Homes are open earlier.
See listings below.
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*Some Homes are open earlier.
See listings below. |
1 Balzac Solar and EV
Next door to Crossiron, this acreage home has a large gound mount solar array, solar thermal collector, a wind turbine, electric vehicles, and an extensive water collection system.
Details of Site #1
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7 Bragg Creek NZR Home
This home shows that a stylish home can still be energy efficient. By using insulated concrete forms and efficient details throughout they have created a beautiful home in the foothills.
Details of Site #7
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2 Ranchland NZR Retrofit
A deep energy retrofit of a 45 year old split level home. Insulating the exterior to R30 and adding new windows and doors brings this home to net-zero ready.
Details of Site #2
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8 Bragg Creek NNZ Home
This home meets the Passive House Low Energy building standard, and has recently added solar to get to near-net-zero. A beautiful home tucked into the trees beside the river in Bragg Creek.
Details of Site #8
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3 Silver Springs NZE Retrofit
Deep energy retrofit of a 70's era home with exterior insulation and new windows and doors. All-electric home with cold climate heat pump heating, heat pump hot water, and laundry.
Details of Site #3
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9 Okotoks NZE Retrofit
Old ranch house updated to NZE using exterior insulation and other envelope improvements. The home is now so efficient that they can get to NZE with electric resistance heat and only a 6.5 kW solar array.
Details of Site #9
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4 Varsity NZE Retrofit
Deep energy retrofit with an addtional 6" of exterior insulation and new windows. All-electric home with cold climate heat pump heating without changing from the exisiting 100 amp service.
Details of Site #4
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10 Southland Solar and EV
This home shows the advantages of combining solar with an electric car. Using bi-facial solar modules on a pergola provides an attractive shady space. The output of the solar array helps to charge their EV and power their home.
Details of Site #10
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5 St Andrews NZE Retrofit
Update of a 1950's bungalow to an all-electric net-zero home. Exterior insulation and air tightness improvements were added including new windows and doors.
Details of Site #5
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11 Chinook Park NZR Retrofit
This deep energy retrofit added exterior insulaton while the home was occupied. The home is now all-electric net-zero ready, just waiting for solar. Come see the bees and chickens in the garden!
Details of Site #11
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6 Highland Park NZE Townhome
Townhomes aimed at a more affordable housing density while achieving net-zero efficiency and lower-carbon design. See the new EPS basement construction technique that uses concrete only in the footings.
Details of Site #6
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12 Lakeview Retrofit Home
This deep energy retrofit added exterior insulation, windows, doors, solar, and an energy monitoring system to improve efficiency. Also included was a radon mitigation system.
Details of Site #12
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13 Bowness NZE Townhome
An example of net-zero rental housing, these 8 rental units will feature 20 bedrooms and 10,000 ft2 of floor space on an infill lot. Large 72 kW building-integrated solar array replaces shingles on the roof.
Details of Site #13
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