Home Energy Planner
What does your home actually need?
Six quick questions. No email required. You'll get the likely story behind your walls, a prioritized upgrade plan with estimated savings, the rebates that are live right now, and registered advisors for your area.
Your plan
Your home's energy profile
Estimates end where the audit begins
Everything above is based on how homes like yours typically perform (scaled to your bills if you entered them), not a model of your actual house. An EnerGuide evaluation (blower door test, thermal imaging, room-by-room heat-loss model) turns these ranges into numbers for your address, and it's the required first step for the biggest rebates. In Ontario, the $600 Home Renovation Savings rebate covers most of its cost if you book one of the seven HRSP-approved organizations and install at least two recommended upgrades.
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Estimates are ranges based on how similar Canadian homes perform, your area's climate and energy prices, and the assumptions listed below. They are deliberately conservative and are not a guarantee of savings. Program details change — confirm on official pages before spending. Nothing you enter here is stored or transmitted; the planner runs entirely in your browser.
How the planner estimates, and the assumptions behind it
Kept deliberately conservative. Your postal code picks the nearest of the 70 cities we cover (or your province's largest city), which sets the climate (heating degree-days from NRCan's HOT2000 weather data, the same data EnerGuide uses) and the energy prices. If you enter your bills, the heating estimate is scaled to them (within 0.5× to 1.6× of a typical house) and every saving is scaled the same way. An EnerGuide evaluation replaces all of this with measurements. Prices as of October 8, 2026.
| Built | Heat needed per m² of floor, at 4,200 degree-days |
|---|---|
| before 1946 | 1 GJ/m² a year |
| 1946–1965 | 0.7 GJ/m² a year |
| 1966–1980 | 0.6 GJ/m² a year |
| 1981–1995 | 0.45 GJ/m² a year |
| 1996–2010 | 0.4 GJ/m² a year |
| 2011 or later | 0.3 GJ/m² a year |
From NRCan's Comprehensive Energy Use Database (heating need per floor area by construction period), scaled to your city's degree-days and checked against NRCan's typical heating loads for Ottawa and Toronto houses. Semi-detached houses use 90% and row houses 80% of the detached figure. Upgrade savings use the physics of each part of the house (insulation R-values, window U-values, air leakage) with your local degree-days, then multiply by 0.75 above grade and 0.4 for basement walls to stay conservative. No single upgrade is credited with more than 35% of your heating, and all of them together with no more than 60%. Savings are valued at the price of one more unit of energy (excluding fixed monthly charges), which is lower than your average price.
| Province | Electricity, average | Electricity, next kWh | Natural gas, average | Natural gas, next m³ | Heating oil |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| British Columbia (Vancouver) | $0.140/kWh | $0.146/kWh | $0.561/m³ | $0.494/m³ | $1.92/L |
| Alberta (Calgary) | $0.241/kWh | $0.202/kWh | $0.377/m³ | $0.169/m³ | — |
| Saskatchewan (Saskatoon) | $0.214/kWh | $0.178/kWh | $0.389/m³ | $0.250/m³ | $1.64/L |
| Manitoba (Winnipeg) | $0.126/kWh | $0.107/kWh | $0.313/m³ | $0.236/m³ | $1.52/L |
| Ontario (Toronto) | $0.188/kWh | $0.144/kWh | $0.478/m³ | $0.314/m³ | $1.95/L |
| Quebec (Montréal) | $0.097/kWh | $0.128/kWh | $0.903/m³ | $0.794/m³ | $1.92/L |
| New Brunswick (Moncton) | $0.218/kWh | $0.182/kWh | $1.084/m³ | $0.955/m³ | $1.95/L |
| Nova Scotia (Halifax) | $0.222/kWh | $0.201/kWh | $1.228/m³ | $1.067/m³ | $1.78/L |
| Prince Edward Island (Charlottetown) | $0.233/kWh | $0.205/kWh | no gas grid | — | $1.47/L |
| Newfoundland and Labrador (St. John's) | $0.199/kWh | $0.179/kWh | no gas grid | — | $1.75/L |
| Yukon (Whitehorse) | $0.307/kWh | $0.289/kWh | no gas grid | — | $1.76/L |
| Northwest Territories (Yellowknife) | $0.414/kWh | $0.393/kWh | no gas grid | — | $1.69/L |
Electricity for lights, appliances and electronics is assumed at 8,000 kWh a year for a medium house, scaled by size. Hot water uses 75 litres per person a day, heated from your area's average cold-water temperature to 55 °C. Air conditioning uses NRCan's cooling-hours method with your area's cooling degree-days, times 0.8. Every city's numbers, sources and formulas are laid out in the calculators, and worked examples show the arithmetic step by step.