Empowered Homes Incorporated: federal grants and contributions

Updated 12 October 2026 · St. John's|St. John's, NL · grants and contributions register · St. John's East

Empowered Homes Incorporated: federal grants and contributions: 19 agreements; $6.0M value; 2 departments; 11 programs.

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19agreements
$6.0Mvalue
2departments
11programs

Largest agreements

Smart Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) Commercial Energy Management System$1.5Mvalue2025start2027end

With residential and commercial heating and cooling already amounting to nearly 20% of all energy consumed in the US and Canada, coupled with increasing demands on electricity grids from climate change, electric vehicles and data centers, grid operators are facing a major challenge. This project will deliver advanced HVAC management solutions to the 6 million small-medium sized commercial spaces in North America that currently do not have a smart HVAC management system. Building from the firm's smart thermostats, this project aims to integrate smart sensors connected to a software platform

Mysa Peak Load Management Solution Development$800Kvalue2024start2025end

The objective of this project is to bring Mysa’s existing hardware line-up to a commercial grade energy management platform that services small and medium sized enterprises (SMBs). This market is currently underserved by existing solutions, which are often complex and focused around a single low voltage HVAC configuration.

Auto-Climate Through Energy Systems Integration$580Kvalue2021start2023end

Empowered Homes intends to help homeowners lower their energy consumption through the development of software that integrates with smart HVAC devices to coordinate the various HVAC systems within a dwelling to optimize energy efficiencies and save customers money. Termed “Auto-Climate”, the integrated platform should enable homeowners to regulate and optimize the comfort of their homes with little direct input or monitoring and would be the first of its kind in the HVAC industry. To maximize Auto-Climate’s ability to optimize energy efficiency, the project also includes investments in enhanc

211344$500Kvalue2018start2019end

Support commercialization activities for new smart thermostat

212362$500Kvalue2018start2019end

Support commercialization activities for new smart thermostat

214337$500Kvalue2020start2020end

Develop and commercialize new product lines to grow and diversify revenues

228014$500Kvalue2025start2026end

Undertake initiatives to mitigate the impacts of ongoing tariff pressures

Mysa FC- A Smart Thermostat that Optimizes the Performance of Fan / Coil Heating / Cooling systems.$500Kvalue2018start2020end

Empowered Homes intends to help homeowners and building owners lower energy consumption through the development of Mysa FC, a smart thermostat that optimizes the performance of fan coil heating/cooling systems. The firm intends to build upon the core elements of the Mysa Smart Thermostat for Electric Baseboard Heating to offer a product that’s tailored made for a unique type of heating/cooling units.

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218237$395Kvalue2021start2021end

Provide assistance to mitigate impacts of Covid-19

208299$50.0Kvalue2016start2017end

Hire a business development manager

211042$50.0Kvalue2018start2019end

Hire a Chief Revenue Officer to develop and implement a comprehensive growth plan

212670$50.0Kvalue2019start2019end

Achieve CSA certification for cyber security to meet requirements of targeted markets

Web Application Developer - Mysa Smart Home Products - YOUTH$30.0Kvalue2021start2022end

This position will help to design and build web applications and backend infrastructure for our smart home products. With thousands of customers and connected devices interacting with our cloud service, the position will involve developing highly scalable and reliable software. Our infrastructure is built on Amazon Web Services, and will work heavily with services such as DynamoDB and Lambda.

Empowered Homes Incorporated-2025-2026-1036717$25.0Kvalue2025start2026end

The purpose of this CanExport SMEs agreement is to support small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) for activities related to export market development that are part of an export business case for a specific target market, particularly where activities are targeting departmental priority markets and sectors.

Empowered Homes Incorporated-2021-2022-975267$24.0Kvalue2021start2022end

The purpose of this CanExport SMEs agreement is to support small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) for activities related to export market development that are part of an export business case for a specific target market, particularly where activities are targeting departmental priority markets and sectors.

Green-Youth - Develop a Software Tool to Increase Software Development Productivity$10.0Kvalue2018start2018end

The purpose of the proposed project is to develop software programs / tools to accelerate the delivery of software engineering. A programming tool or software development tool is a computer program that software developers use to create, debug, maintain, or otherwise support software development efforts. With these tools in place, Empowered Homes will be able to deliver more value, higher quality, quicker features to our customers.

Youth-Green - User Experience Researcher$10.0Kvalue2018start2018end

Empowered Homes launched the Mysa Thermostat beginning in January 2018. Empowered Homes has sold over 7500 thermostats to thousands of customers. The proposed project is to compile all the customer feedback and present findings to Mysa’s engineering team. The project will also include performing user testing in order to identify areas of trouble for users and suggesting solutions to correct these issues.

Youth-Green - Identify Cost Saving Oppportunities of Operations of Mysa Thermostats$10.0Kvalue2018start2018end

Empowered Homes launched the Mysa Thermostat beginning in January 2018. Empowered Homes has sold over 7000 thermostats to thousands of customers. The proposed project is to analyze costs of producing the Mysa Thermostat and identify cost-saving opportunities before the firm scales operations to hundreds of thousands of units.

Youth-Green - Develop Support Resources to Better Serve Mysa’s Customers.$10.0Kvalue2018start2019end

The Firm launched the Mysa Smart Thermostat beginning in January 2018 and has sold over 12,000 thermostats to thousands of customers. The proposed project is to hire someone with customer support experience to develop support resources to better serve customers.

Departments

National Research Council Canada11agreements$3.5Mvalue6programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Green Youth Employment Program
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Youth Employment Program
  • CanExport SME
  • CanExport SMEs

All grants from National Research Council Canada

Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency8agreements$2.5Mvalue5programs
  • Business Development Program
  • REGI - Business Scale-up and Productivity
  • REGI-BSP-Regional Tariff Response Initiative (RTRI)
  • BDP - Productivity and Business Skills
  • REGI - Productivity and Business Skills

All grants from Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency

Years

20253agreements$2.0Mvalue3programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program
  • REGI-BSP-Regional Tariff Response Initiative (RTRI)
  • CanExport SME
20241agreements$800Kvalue1programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
20214agreements$1.0Mvalue4programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
  • REGI - Business Scale-up and Productivity
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Youth Employment Program
  • CanExport SMEs
20201agreements$500Kvalue1programs
  • REGI - Business Scale-up and Productivity
20191agreements$50.0Kvalue1programs
  • REGI - Productivity and Business Skills
20188agreements$1.6Mvalue4programs
  • Business Development Program
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
  • BDP - Productivity and Business Skills
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Green Youth Employment Program
20161agreements$50.0Kvalue1programs
  • BDP - Productivity and Business Skills

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada. Source: Government of Canada proactive disclosure of grants and contributions (open.canada.ca, dataset 432527ab-7aac-45b5-81d6-7597107a7013), 1,327,352 rows as published, collapsed to one agreement per agreement number (per reference number where none is given) at its latest amendment, which carries the full agreement value. Years are the agreement start year. Agreements with individuals are counted but not named.