Home Energy Planner · free
What does your home actually need?
Six short steps, about two minutes, no email needed. You’ll get your free plan: what’s probably behind your walls, which upgrades to do first and what they could save in your climate, the rebates open in your province, and how to book the audit that measures it all.
Step 1 of 6
Your free plan · an estimate before anyone visits
Your home’s energy plan
Estimates end where the audit begins
Everything above comes from how homes like yours typically perform (scaled to your bills if you entered them), not from measurements of your house. An EnerGuide evaluation, with a blower door test, thermal imaging and a heat-loss model, turns these ranges into numbers for your address, and it’s the first step for the biggest rebates.
Get matched with a registered energy advisor
Send us your plan and we’ll introduce you to one registered energy advisor (a licensed service organization) that serves your area, usually within one business day. Participating advisors pay us a referral fee; you pay nothing.
Estimates are ranges based on how similar Canadian homes perform, your area’s climate and energy prices, and the assumptions under How the estimates work. They are deliberately conservative and are not a guarantee of savings. Program details change, so confirm on official pages before spending. The planner runs in your browser and this page loads no analytics: your plan lives only in this page’s address (after the #), which you can copy to save or share.
How the estimates work, and the assumptions behind them
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. Rebates use each program’s lowest published amount for a job like yours, from the same rebate data as the upgrade calculator.
| 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.