How St. Catharines is built
- Before 1961 36%
- 1961–1990 47%
- 1991–2000 7%
- 2001 or later 10%
Getting your usage history in St. Catharines
Most of St. Catharines is served by Alectra Utilities for electricity and Enbridge Gas for natural gas.
- Alectra Utilities: My Alectra account, then Green Button: download or connect electricity usage, billing and account data (XML). Interval-metered businesses also get a CSV energy-usage portal with 24 months of data. Link
- Enbridge Gas: Gas utility (most of Ontario): My Account, then Share My Data, then Download your Data: up to 24 months of billing and usage data as Green Button XML. Link
What the analysis shows
St. Catharines gets about 3,347 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 −13°C. Those figures come from the climate data for Port Weller 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 St. Catharines, 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.
Communities served
Area guide for the surrounding region, with every town and hamlet listed: Niagara Region area guide (Niagara Falls, Welland, Fort Erie, Grimsby and more).
NRCan-licensed service organizations serving St. Catharines
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.
Only assessments from the seven HRSP-approved organizations qualify for the $600 Home Renovation Savings rebate and its assessment-path upgrade rebates; each listing below says whether it's one of them.
- Acacia Engineering HRSP-approved: No
- Air Barrier Canada HRSP-approved: No
- All Season Inspection HRSP-approved: No Profile
- AmeriSpec HRSP-approved: Yes Profile
- BEST Energy and Sustainability HRSP-approved: No
- Clean Energy Solutions HRSP-approved: No
- ecoGEO Energy HRSP-approved: No
- Ecostep Energy Services HRSP-approved: No
- Energy Werx HRSP-approved: Yes Profile
- Enerhold Engineering Solutions HRSP-approved: No
- EnerQuality HRSP-approved: No
- EnerSolution HRSP-approved: No Profile
- Engreen Home HRSP-approved: No
- ER Energy Solutions HRSP-approved: No
- Green Canada Home Advisors HRSP-approved: No Profile
- Green Think HRSP-approved: No
- Greenbrain HRSP-approved: Yes Profile
- Sensible Home Inspections HRSP-approved: No
- The Energuy HRSP-approved: Yes Profile
- Verdatech Energy Management and Consulting HRSP-approved: No
- Enerhome Consulting HRSP-approved: No
Programs in St. Catharines
Energy bill analysis in St. Catharines: common questions
How do I download my energy usage in St. Catharines?
Alectra Utilities: My Alectra account, then Green Button: download or connect electricity usage, billing and account data (XML). Interval-metered businesses also get a CSV energy-usage portal with 24 months of data. Link Enbridge Gas: Gas utility (most of Ontario): My Account, then Share My Data, then Download your Data: up to 24 months of billing and usage data as Green Button XML. 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.