How Saguenay is built
- Before 1961 26%
- 1961–1990 49%
- 1991–2000 9%
- 2001 or later 16%
Getting your usage history in Saguenay
Most of Saguenay is served by Hydro-Québec / Hydro-Jonquière for electricity and Énergir for natural gas.
- Hydro-Québec: Customer Space (Espace client), then My electricity use / Detailed consumption: hour-to-hour, daily, monthly and bill-to-bill history with year-over-year comparison. No Green Button offering found, and a file-export option wasn't confirmed. Link
- Hydro-Jonquière: Hydro-Jonquière's online billing service: view annual consumption and all account transactions. No data download or history depth is mentioned. Link
What the analysis shows
Saguenay gets about 5,343 heating degree-days a year, a measure of how much heating its climate needs, and its winter design temperature, the cold day heating systems are sized for, is −28.9°C. Those figures come from the climate data for Jonquière in HOT2000, the home-energy software Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) gives energy advisors. Weather-normalizing your bills against those degree-days separates heating from baseload (lights, appliances, hot water), so you can see how much of the bill a heating upgrade can actually touch, and compare a mild year with a harsh one fairly.
In Saguenay, summer air conditioning also shows up on the electricity bill: compare your July and August use with a spring month to see roughly what cooling costs, and how much a heat pump or better attic insulation could take off it.
NRCan-licensed service organizations serving Saguenay
In Quebec, EnerGuide evaluations for existing homes run through the provincial Rénoclimat program; the organizations below are the ones NRCan lists for Saguenay postal codes.
A service organization is a company that Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) licenses to deliver EnerGuide evaluations; its registered energy advisors do the home visit. Bring 12 months of bills to any of these organizations' evaluations; the advisor's model uses them as the baseline for projected savings.
- Expertbâtiment Services-Conseils
- Expertise en batiment Champagne
- Inspection Immotech
Energy bill analysis in Saguenay: common questions
How do I download my energy usage in Saguenay?
Hydro-Québec: Customer Space (Espace client), then My electricity use / Detailed consumption: hour-to-hour, daily, monthly and bill-to-bill history with year-over-year comparison. No Green Button offering found, and a file-export option wasn't confirmed. Link Hydro-Jonquière: Hydro-Jonquière's online billing service: view annual consumption and all account transactions. No data download or history depth is mentioned. Link
What is Green Button?
A standard format for downloading your own energy data. Ontario electricity utilities have been required to offer Green Button Download My Data since November 1, 2023.
Why weather-normalize bills?
A cold winter raises heating bills even if nothing about the house changed, and a hot summer raises cooling bills. Normalizing to degree-days lets you compare years fairly and measure real savings.