Is the design heating load on my report enough to size a heat pump?

No. The report itself says the design loads are for guidance only and your contractor should do an independent heat loss calculation. See our guide on [comparing HVAC installation estimates](https://www.homeowner.ca/a/how-to-compare-hvac-installation-estimates-load-calculations-equipment-matches-and-contract-gaps "How to Compare HVAC Installation Estimates") for what a proper load calculation looks like.

EnerGuide Home Evaluations Explained: What the Audit Measures, What It Costs, and What the Label Means

How to Read Your Rating, Your Report, and the Fine Print Before You Book One

Published: October 7, 2026

Fact-checked , including Natural Resources Canada, Gouvernement du Québec & Efficiency Nova Scotia

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Key Takeaways

•An EnerGuide evaluation is a diagnostic, not a quote: a registered energy advisor measures your house, runs a blower door test, and models it in HOT2000 to produce a rating in gigajoules per year plus a prioritized upgrade list.
•The rating uses standard operating conditions so houses can be compared fairly, which is exactly why it will not match your utility bills. The "typical new house" figure beside it is your own house rebuilt to code, not a neighbourhood average.
•Open-market evaluations cost roughly $500 to $600 each, but Ontario, Manitoba, Nova Scotia and Quebec programs subsidize or refund them, and most require the first evaluation before any work begins.

Most homeowners meet the EnerGuide evaluation as a hoop. A rebate program says you need one, a contractor says you need one, and the whole thing gets filed mentally as paperwork standing between you and the money. That framing undersells what you are actually buying.

An EnerGuide evaluation is the only routine, standardized measurement of how your whole house performs as a system: how leaky it is, where the heat escapes, how much energy the building itself demands. It produces numbers you can take to a heat pump installer, an insulation contractor, or a seller's agent. Read well, it tells you what to do first and what to skip. Read badly, it looks like a promise of savings it never made.

This guide works through the evaluation in the order you will live it: what happens during the visit, what each number on the label means, how to read the upgrade report line by line using a real sample, what it costs in different provinces this fall, and when it is worth booking even with no rebate on the table.

What an EnerGuide Evaluation Actually Is

One visit, three documents

An EnerGuide evaluation is an on-site assessment by an energy advisor registered with Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), working for a service organization that NRCan licenses. The advisor collects measurements, the house is modelled, and you receive three documents: the EnerGuide label, a Homeowner Information Sheet, and a Renovation Upgrade Report.

The label is the summary. The information sheet is the evidence file: insulation values, window specifications, airtightness results, equipment sizes. The upgrade report is the roadmap: which improvements the model says would lower your rating, and by how much.

According to Natural Resources Canada, EnerGuide is the nationally recognized on-site home energy rating procedure and has been used to label more than 2.6 million low-rise homes since 1998.

The machinery behind the number

The rating is calculated, not metered. The advisor's field data goes into HOT2000, NRCan's energy simulation software, which models how much energy the house would use over a year. The current EnerGuide Rating System is version 15, the release that moved Canada from the old 0 to 100 score to a consumption-based scale in gigajoules per year. NRCan's professional tools page currently lists HOT2000 version 11.13 as the latest release.

That distinction matters more than it sounds. A calculated rating can be reproduced by another advisor on the same house. A metered number would change every time a teenager moved out or a winter ran cold.

It also matters what the evaluation is not. It is not a home inspection: the advisor is not assessing roof condition, structure or code compliance, and the report itself says energy advisors are not required to have health and safety expertise.

If you are weighing the two services, our guide to what a home inspector actually checks covers the other half of the picture.

What Happens During the Visit

The basement-to-attic walk-through

A pre-retrofit visit typically runs two to three hours. The advisor measures the house's dimensions and records what it is made of and what runs it. The NRCan evaluation checklist covers:

airtightness, measured with a blower door test
insulation levels in walls, ceilings and the basement
the number, type and location of every window and exterior door
the size and efficiency of space heating, cooling and water heating equipment
any ventilation equipment

Expect the advisor to open the attic hatch, look behind basement finishes where they can, and photograph equipment nameplates. Anything they cannot see is presumed from the house's age and construction, and the report says so.

Attic measurements tend to become the most actionable line in the report, because attic insulation is usually the easiest envelope upgrade to reach. Our attic insulation and roof ventilation guide explains what the advisor is looking at up there.

The blower door test

The blower door is the heart of the visit and the one measurement no virtual label can reproduce. A calibrated fan is mounted in a fabric panel that seals into your main entry door. The advisor closes every window and exterior door, closes doors to unheated spaces such as the garage and crawl space, opens interior doors, and turns off gas and oil appliances so the test cannot pull combustion gases back into the house.

The fan then depressurizes the house. Outside air rushes in through every gap it can find, and a manometer measures how much airflow it takes to hold the pressure difference. Readings are taken at several pressures, and the result is expressed as air changes per hour at 50 pascals (ACH@50 Pa): how many times the entire volume of indoor air would be replaced each hour under that test pressure.

The test itself takes about 30 minutes. Quebec's Rénoclimat program guidance recommends following the advisor while the fan is still running, because that is when they walk the house with a hand or a smoke puffer to find leaks. It is the most useful half hour of the visit. Bring a notepad.

The basement-to-attic walk-through

A pre-retrofit visit typically runs two to three hours. The advisor measures the house's dimensions and records what it is made of and what runs it. The NRCan evaluation checklist covers:

airtightness, measured with a blower door test
insulation levels in walls, ceilings and the basement
the number, type and location of every window and exterior door
the size and efficiency of space heating, cooling and water heating equipment
any ventilation equipment

The blower door test

Tip

Walk the house with your advisor during the leak hunt and write down every location they flag: attic hatch, rim joist, plumbing stack, window trim. That list becomes your air-sealing scope, and it is more specific than anything in the written report.

How to prepare

The house has to be testable. It needs a working heating system that can hold 22°C, all windows and doors installed, and an intact air barrier. Renovations in progress will skew or block the test, and some service organizations will not complete an evaluation once work has started. Have a recent property tax bill (for your roll number) and a heating fuel bill ready, clear a path to the attic hatch, sweep out the fireplace, and make sure there is no fire burning. You will also sign a consent form authorizing NRCan to process the data.

What the Label Means

The rating: gigajoules per year, and lower is better

The headline figure is an estimate of the net energy your house consumes in a year, in gigajoules (GJ). One GJ is about 278 kWh of electricity or 27 cubic metres of natural gas. The scale runs toward zero, and a rating of 0 GJ/year means the house produces as much energy as it uses.

"Net" is the operative word. If you have solar panels, the modelled output is subtracted from the house's rated consumption to get the rating. A real 2024 information sheet shows this plainly: 55 GJ/year of rated consumption, minus 22 GJ/year from on-site renewables, for an EnerGuide rating of 33 GJ/year. Two houses with the same rating can have very different envelopes.

The label also breaks consumption down two ways, by energy source (electricity, gas, oil) and by end use: space heating, cooling, water heating, ventilation, lights and appliances, and other electrical loads. It adds an estimate of greenhouse gas emissions in tonnes per year. According to NRCan's guide to your results, the label exists so you can see at a glance where your largest energy uses are.

The reference house is your house, rebuilt

The second number on the label is the "typical new house." It is not an average of your street or your province. NRCan creates a reference house for every home it rates: the same size, type and location as yours, modelled as if built to the energy requirements of the National Building Code.

That makes it the most useful comparison on the page. A house rated 139 GJ/year against a 100 GJ/year reference is using roughly 39% more energy than the same house would if it were built new today. That gap is the size of the opportunity, stated in the house's own terms.

Standard operating conditions: why the rating compares houses, not households

Every EnerGuide rating is calculated with the same imaginary family living the same way. The standard operating conditions, as printed in the glossary of a real Homeowner Information Sheet, are:

two adults and one child, at home 50% of the time
hot water use of 158 to 197 litres per day, depending on incoming water temperature and the house's age
thermostat settings of 21°C for daytime heating, 18°C overnight, and 25°C for cooling
lighting, appliance and other electrical loads of 19.5 kWh per day

This is a deliberate design choice. Fixing the occupants means the rating describes the building, not the people in it. A retired couple and a family of six in identical houses get identical ratings, which is exactly what a buyer, a program administrator or a code official needs.

Why the rating will not match your bills

Because the occupants are imaginary, the rating is not a bill forecast. NRCan says plainly that you should not expect your utility bills to match the EnerGuide rating. Weather varies year to year, your household is not the standard household, and loads such as a pool or hot tub are left out of the rating entirely and listed separately as atypical energy loads.

The upgrade report gets closer. Alongside the rating it shows "Estimated Household Energy Use," calculated from the occupancy and habits you describe to the advisor. Even that is a model, not a meter. Use it to understand proportions, not to predict a bill.

The rating: gigajoules per year, and lower is better

The reference house is your house, rebuilt

Standard operating conditions: why the rating compares houses, not households

Every EnerGuide rating is calculated with the same imaginary family living the same way. The standard operating conditions, as printed in the glossary of a real Homeowner Information Sheet, are:

two adults and one child, at home 50% of the time
hot water use of 158 to 197 litres per day, depending on incoming water temperature and the house's age
thermostat settings of 21°C for daytime heating, 18°C overnight, and 25°C for cooling
lighting, appliance and other electrical loads of 19.5 kWh per day

Why the rating will not match your bills

Important

A rating is not a savings promise. Any rebate or contractor pitch that converts your GJ reduction into a guaranteed dollar figure has added assumptions the EnerGuide report itself does not make.

Several regions now offer cheaper virtual labels generated from property data rather than a site visit. They have their uses, but they cannot measure airtightness, and our explainer on virtual home energy labels covers where they fall short.

Reading a Real Report, Line by Line

The fastest way to learn the report is to read one. The walkthrough below uses a sample Renovation Upgrade Report in the NRCan version 15 format, published as an example by an energy advisory firm: a one-storey detached house built in 2002, heated by a natural gas furnace, with 183.5 m² of heated floor area. The figures are from a sample file, not a specific homeowner, but every field is populated exactly as yours will be.

From blower door to rating

Line on the report	Sample value	What it tells you
Airtightness	3.04 ACH@50 Pa	The blower door result. Lower is tighter. This number feeds straight into the model's heating load.
Current EnerGuide rating	139 GJ/year	Net annual energy use under standard operating conditions. Your headline number.
A typical new house	100 GJ/year	The same house built to code. This house uses about 39% more.
Rated energy intensity	0.77 GJ/m²/year	Rating divided by heated floor area, so you can compare houses of different sizes.
Estimated household energy use	136 GJ/year	The model rerun with the actual household (five occupants, 19°C daytime heating). Closer to real life, still not a bill.
Potential rating	64 GJ/year	Where the house would land if every recommended upgrade were completed.
Greenhouse gas emissions	6.6 t/year now, 3.8 t/year potential	Emissions from fuel burned on site plus electricity, using provincial grid factors.

Read top to bottom, the table tells a story. The house is a middling 2002 build: not leaky by older-home standards, but well behind a new house of the same shape. The report also shows that space heating accounts for 61% of estimated annual energy use and that air leakage accounts for 14% of annual heat loss. Heating is the problem. The rest of the report is about how to shrink it.

The upgrade list

The roadmap ranks six recommendations, each with a modelled reduction in the rating:

Rank	Recommended upgrade	Rating reduction
1	Add a solar PV system sized to 10,802 kWh/year	42 GJ/year
2	Replace the furnace with a 96% AFUE condensing unit	21 GJ/year
3	Air seal by 10%, to 2.74 ACH@50 Pa	2 GJ/year
4	Replace one exterior door	2 GJ/year
5	Tankless gas water heater plus drain-water heat recovery	9 GJ/year
6	Add RSI 3.52 (R-20) to the attic	5 GJ/year
	All recommended upgrades combined	75 GJ/year

Three things are worth noticing.

First, the ranking is not simply biggest saving first. The report says the advisor weighed your renovation plans, the cost of each measure and its energy contribution when building the order. Air sealing sits third with a 2 GJ reduction because it is cheap and it should happen before other work, not because it moves the needle most.

Second, the largest heat-loss category in this house is the basement and foundation, at 26 GJ/year, yet no basement upgrade appears on the list. The roadmap is an advisor's recommendation for this household's plans. If you intend to finish the basement anyway, ask the advisor to model basement insulation. The software can run it.

Third, the air-sealing line gives you a measurable target: 2.74 ACH@50 Pa. That number is what a post-retrofit blower door test will be judged against, and in Ontario and Quebec it is what determines whether you receive air-sealing money.

The report can also carry warnings. This sample flags three: the house may not receive enough outdoor air, there is a risk of combustion gases being drawn inside, and there is vermiculite insulation that may contain asbestos. Treat these as referrals, not diagnoses. The report itself states that energy advisors are not required to have health and safety expertise.

A ventilation warning usually becomes more pressing, not less, once you air seal. Our guide to how HRV and ERV systems work explains the fix.

Why the numbers don't add up (and aren't supposed to)

Add the six individual reductions and you get 81 GJ/year. The combined total is 75. This is not a typo. The table notes explain that each upgrade is modelled in isolation, and combinations produce different results. A more efficient furnace saves less once the attic is insulated, because there is less heat to supply. A second note warns that air sealing results carry a broader error range because they are so house-specific.

This is the most important reading skill in the whole report. The list tells you which measures matter and roughly in what proportion. It is not a menu of savings you can add up, not a contractor quote, and not a payback calculation. No dollar figures appear anywhere in it, and that is by design.

From blower door to rating

Line on the report	Sample value	What it tells you
Airtightness	3.04 ACH@50 Pa	The blower door result. Lower is tighter. This number feeds straight into the model's heating load.
Current EnerGuide rating	139 GJ/year	Net annual energy use under standard operating conditions. Your headline number.
A typical new house	100 GJ/year	The same house built to code. This house uses about 39% more.
Rated energy intensity	0.77 GJ/m²/year	Rating divided by heated floor area, so you can compare houses of different sizes.
Estimated household energy use	136 GJ/year	The model rerun with the actual household (five occupants, 19°C daytime heating). Closer to real life, still not a bill.
Potential rating	64 GJ/year	Where the house would land if every recommended upgrade were completed.
Greenhouse gas emissions	6.6 t/year now, 3.8 t/year potential	Emissions from fuel burned on site plus electricity, using provincial grid factors.

The upgrade list

The roadmap ranks six recommendations, each with a modelled reduction in the rating:

Rank	Recommended upgrade	Rating reduction
1	Add a solar PV system sized to 10,802 kWh/year	42 GJ/year
2	Replace the furnace with a 96% AFUE condensing unit	21 GJ/year
3	Air seal by 10%, to 2.74 ACH@50 Pa	2 GJ/year
4	Replace one exterior door	2 GJ/year
5	Tankless gas water heater plus drain-water heat recovery	9 GJ/year
6	Add RSI 3.52 (R-20) to the attic	5 GJ/year
	All recommended upgrades combined	75 GJ/year

Three things are worth noticing.

A ventilation warning usually becomes more pressing, not less, once you air seal. Our guide to how HRV and ERV systems work explains the fix.

Why the numbers don't add up (and aren't supposed to)

Note

Solar PV tops this sample's list because the rating is net of on-site generation. It lowers the number on the label without reducing how much energy the envelope loses. If your goal is comfort or a smaller heat pump, envelope measures are the ones to prioritize.

What It Costs

On the open market, an EnerGuide evaluation is priced per visit, with a cheaper follow-up visit after upgrades. NRCan's service organization directory puts the average total for a pre- and post-retrofit pair at $600 to $1,000, typically paid after the service is done.

Published prices checked on September 21, 2026, from three licensed providers:

Waterloo Region, Ontario: Reep Green Solutions charges $540 for the initial evaluation and $406 for the follow-up, with no HST because it is a registered charity.
Ontario: Windfall Ecology Centre charges $500 plus HST for the initial evaluation and $250 plus HST for the follow-up. It also offers a standalone blower door test for $250.
Vancouver Island, British Columbia: Airtight Energy Advisors charges $600 for each visit and cites a median of $586 for a pre-renovation evaluation among Island advisors in September 2025.

Expect surcharges for large homes (usually over 2,500 to 3,000 sq ft above grade), travel outside a provider's core area, and remodelling fees if you add an addition between visits. Cancellation fees of $50 to $75 are common.

Program-run evaluations are far cheaper. Efficiency Nova Scotia charges $199, waivable for moderate-income households. Quebec's Rénoclimat charges $150 plus tax and refunds the $150 if you are granted assistance. In Ontario and Manitoba you pay the provider's rate and the program pays a rebate afterward.

Warning

NRCan states that service organizations do not sell evaluations door to door or through unsolicited calls or emails. If someone calls offering a "government energy audit," hang up and book through a provider you find yourself, then confirm their registration in NRCan's online directory.

Which Programs Require an Evaluation in Fall 2026

The federal Greener Homes Grant made the pre- and post-retrofit evaluation famous. That grant is gone, but the evaluation lives on in provincial programs, several of which will not pay for work done before the first visit.

Program status checked September 21, 2026:

Program	Where	Is an EnerGuide evaluation required?	Evaluation cost to you
Home Renovation Savings Program (assessment stream)	Ontario	Yes. Initial assessment before any work, two or more upgrades, then a follow-up with the same advisor.	Provider's rate, offset by a $600 rebate on completion
EnerGuide Home Evaluation Rebate	Manitoba	Pre-retrofit only. Apply within 90 days; post-retrofit evaluations are not eligible.	Provider's rate, then a $400 rebate
Home Energy Assessment	Nova Scotia	Yes. Initial assessment, then a final assessment within 12 months to claim rebates.	$199, waivable for moderate-income households
Rénoclimat	Quebec	Yes. Work must improve the rating between two consecutive evaluations; work done before the first is not eligible.	$150 plus tax, refunded if assistance is granted
Energy Savings Program	British Columbia	Not part of the published process. Pre-register, then use a registered contractor.	Not applicable
Canada Greener Homes Affordability Program	Delivered in BC, MB, NS, PEI and QC	Planning is handled by the delivery organization; you apply through your province, not federally.	No cost to eligible low-to-median-income households
Canada Greener Homes Grant	Federal	Closed. December 31, 2025 was the last day to submit documents.	Not applicable
Canada Greener Homes Loan	Federal	Closed. Funding was fully committed as of March 31, 2026.	Not applicable

Two patterns stand out. Where an evaluation is required, the first one must come before the work, so booking late can cost you the rebate outright. And the air-sealing target printed in your report becomes a pass/fail test at the follow-up visit, which is why Ontario's program suggests leaving air sealing until your third upgrade or later.

Ontario readers can follow the full sequence in our Home Renovation Savings Program guide.

When an Evaluation Is Worth Ordering Without a Program

A rebate makes the decision easy. Without one, you are paying $500 to $600 for information, so it pays to be specific about which decisions that information will change.

Worth booking

Before sizing a heat pump. The information sheet includes a design heating load, but it is labelled guidance only and your installer should still run a proper heat loss calculation. The real value is sequence: the report tells you whether to tighten and insulate first. A tighter envelope can mean a smaller, cheaper heat pump that runs in its efficient range more often.
Before signing an insulation or air-sealing contract. A blower door number before and after is the only objective proof the work did anything. Without the baseline, you are taking the contractor's word for it.
Before buying an older house, or in the first year after. EnerGuide reports belong to the homeowner who paid for them, and NRCan will only release them to that person. If the seller has one, ask for it. If not, an evaluation gives you a measured starting point for the renovation budget you are about to build.
When comfort problems don't have an obvious cause. Cold rooms, drafts and ice damming are often air leakage problems, and the blower door leak hunt finds them.

Adds little

A single like-for-like replacement. Swapping a failed water heater or a window with a matching unit does not need a whole-house model.
A recently built or recently evaluated house. If nothing has changed since the last evaluation, the old report is still valid.
When you only want a rough number for a listing or a curiosity check. A virtual label or a standalone blower door test answers narrower questions for less money.

The switch to a cold-climate heat pump is where these criteria converge for most Canadian owners this heating season. Our heat pump guide covers the equipment decision that follows the evaluation.

About the Author

Ryan May

Senior Contributor / Founder

Ryan is the founder of Homeowner.ca and a proud Canadian homeowner based in Guelph, Ontario. Over his 25-year career in digital publishing, he has focused on transforming complex information into clear, practical guidance that helps people make confident, well-informed decisions.

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FAQ

Most programs quote about two to three weeks after the visit. Efficiency Manitoba says two to three weeks, and Rénoclimat says about two weeks. Getting a booking can take two to four weeks as well, and longer in the colder months.

If you want a rebate, generally no. Ontario, Quebec and Nova Scotia programs all measure improvement from the first evaluation, and Rénoclimat states that work completed before it is not eligible. Many advisors also cannot run a valid blower door test on a house with open walls or missing windows.

There is no single pass mark for an existing house. The useful comparison is your own before-and-after number and the target your report sets. In the sample report, a 2002 house tested at 3.04 ACH@50 Pa and was given a target of 2.74. A heavily retrofitted house in a real 2024 report tested at 0.95.

The recommendations in it are still useful, but the score cannot be converted to the gigajoule scale. NRCan retired the 0 to 100 system at the end of 2018, so you need a new evaluation for a current rating.

No. The report itself says the design loads are for guidance only and your contractor should do an independent heat loss calculation. See our guide on comparing HVAC installation estimates for what a proper load calculation looks like.

No. Windfall Ecology Centre, for example, quotes up to an hour for the follow-up, since the house is already modelled and the advisor mainly verifies upgrades and reruns the blower door test.

No. Reports belong to the homeowner who purchased the evaluation, and NRCan is bound by privacy law to share them only with that person. Sellers are encouraged to share them voluntarily, so ask during your purchase.

It may flag them. Reports can carry warnings about insufficient outdoor air, combustion spillage risk and vermiculite insulation. But the advisor is not a health and safety inspector, and any warning should be followed up with the appropriate qualified trade.

The rating gives buyers a standardized way to compare homes, and some municipalities now publish ratings on maps. It does not by itself set a price. What it does is replace guesswork about a house's energy performance with a measured, comparable number.

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Key Takeaways

•An EnerGuide evaluation is a diagnostic, not a quote: a registered energy advisor measures your house, runs a blower door test, and models it in HOT2000 to produce a rating in gigajoules per year plus a prioritized upgrade list.
•The rating uses standard operating conditions so houses can be compared fairly, which is exactly why it will not match your utility bills. The "typical new house" figure beside it is your own house rebuilt to code, not a neighbourhood average.
•Open-market evaluations cost roughly $500 to $600 each, but Ontario, Manitoba, Nova Scotia and Quebec programs subsidize or refund them, and most require the first evaluation before any work begins.