Guides, news and research on Green Button data, Ontario utility data collection, bill digitization and energy reporting.
Every utility data API promises coverage and a clean feed. The differences that matter are authorisation, what happens when a utility changes its portal, how history and closed accounts are handled, and who carries the maintenance.
Ontario has 58 rate-regulated electricity distributors plus a separate set of retailers and sub-metering providers. Here is who does what, how to find yours, and why it matters for getting your data.
The utility meter is the billed truth. Submeters explain how that total was made. Understanding what each one can and cannot tell you is what stops a submetering project producing charts nobody trusts.
Water submetering is regulated differently from electricity, produces coarser data, and finds a different class of problem. Here is how it works and what a building actually gets out of it.
What an electricity submeter measures, what the law requires of a meter used for billing, who regulates suite metering in Ontario, and what the resulting data is good for.
What London Hydro offers through Green Button, the difference between downloading a file and authorizing a feed, and how to handle more than a few accounts.
How submetering works in a multi-tenant building, what gets metered, who is allowed to bill for it in Ontario, and where the interval data ends up.
What Enova Power offers through Green Button, what you need before you start, and how Kitchener-Wilmot Hydro and Waterloo North Hydro accounts fit in.
EWRB Ontario explained: who reports, the July 1 deadline, verification, exemptions, and a plan for assembling whole-building electricity, gas and water data.
ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager Canada guide: NRCan's 12-month whole-building data rule, tenant aggregation, Ontario EWRB and BPS, and three ways to load data.
How to collect utility data automatically: inventory accounts, pick Green Button, portal or bill capture per account, authorize, schedule, validate and monitor.
Utility bill management software: the capabilities that matter, Ontario Global Adjustment fields, a checklist, vendor questions and the failure modes to avoid.
Hydro Ottawa Green Button explained: where it lives in MyAccount, Download My Data versus Connect My Data, interval resolution, and how to use the file.
How Enbridge Green Button works: Download My Data and Share My Data in My Account, what the XML holds, third-party authorization, and m3 to emissions.
A reference list of utility companies in Ontario: OEB-licensed electricity distributors by region, the gas utilities, and how to get usage data from each.
School board energy management guide: what O. Reg. 25/23 asks of Ontario boards, how to collect data from several distributors, and how to feed Power BI.
Outside Ontario, Green Button is not mandated. How to get consumption data from BC Hydro, FortisBC, ENMAX, Hydro-Quebec, and Energir using each utility's own portal exports, plus bill digitization.
Electricity is the easy commodity. This guide covers how to get natural gas, water, and propane consumption data in Ontario, where Green Button applies, and where PDF bill digitization fills the gaps.
A practical checklist for validating utility bill data pulled from PDF bills: field checks, period continuity, unit sanity tests, and catching errors before they reach Portfolio Manager.
Interval data and billing data answer different questions. This guide explains what each contains, which use cases need which, the quality checks to run, and how to get both.
A practical guide to choosing how utility consumption and billing data is delivered (REST API, SFTP, or CSV) and how each method feeds Portfolio Manager, Power BI, CRMs, ERPs, and ESG tools.
Deciding whether to build utility integrations in-house or use a utility data aggregator: what each utility connection really costs, where the work hides, and how to choose.
Whole-building energy data is the hardest thing for a multifamily owner to get. Why tenant metering creates the gap, what utilities can aggregate, and how landlords assemble portfolio data.
Where a housing provider's utility data actually lives, why it is harder than a commercial portfolio, and how a small team can assemble it once.
What utility data an Ontario hospital needs for annual energy reporting, benchmarking, and conservation planning, why it is hard to assemble, and how to get it without manual bill entry.
What Hydro One publishes about its Interval Data Portal and Green Button Connect My Data, what sits behind myAccount, and how to standardize the result.
A step-by-step guide to Toronto Hydro's Green Button: what Download My Data includes, how the Connect My Data authorization works, how to revoke it, and what to do with the file.
Where Alectra publishes Green Button data, what Download My Data and Connect My Data each give you, and what to do with more than a few accounts.
Roughly three quarters of US electric meters are now smart meters, and they record energy in short intervals rather than a single monthly number. This guide explains AMI, interval resolution, and which analyses each level of detail actually supports.
Demand charges are billed on a single peak kilowatt reading, not total energy, and they can dominate a commercial electricity bill. Interval data is the only way to see where that peak came from. Here is how the charge works and how to read your data to manage it.
Green Button is not a single switch you flip. It is a standard that each utility implements on its own schedule, so coverage varies by region. Here is how to tell whether a utility supports Download My Data or Connect My Data, and what Green Button Alliance certification actually means.
Integration patterns for feeding standardized utility data into a CRM or your own application, including the Connect My Data ongoing feed, OAuth, and the ESPI data model.
Ontario's broader public sector reports energy use and emissions every year. Here is how municipalities and public agencies can gather utility data across many meters more reliably.
A plain guide to Ontario Regulation 633/21: what it requires of electricity and gas utilities, the Green Button standard it points to, and what it changes for people who need the data.
How a demand response aggregator collects, standardizes and validates interval meter data for every participant, from enrollment baselines to settlement, and where utility data aggregation breaks down.
An energy savings performance contract is a promise backed by meter data. Here is why clean utility data sits at the center of the ESCO business model.
Bringing a large portfolio of utility accounts online by hand does not scale. What an onboarding run actually involves, and how to sequence it sensibly.
How to read reading quality flags, spot missing intervals and estimates, and validate Green Button data before it reaches your analysis.
How Green Button Connect My Data authorization works: the consent flow, scopes, token lifetimes, revocation, and what breaks once you are in production.
What is inside a Green Button XML file: the ESPI standard, UsagePoint and IntervalReading, units and time zones, and how to turn it into CSV.
The scope 1 and 2 formula is short. Here are the current Canadian emission factors, the tables they come from, and the data quality the result rests on.
Energy teams lose most of their Power BI time gathering and cleaning utility data, so here is how to feed clean consumption into a ready model.
RETScreen needs clean monthly energy and cost data and a solid baseline before it can tell you anything useful. Here is how to feed it standardized utility data instead of hand keying bills into the tool.
The three ways EPA supports for getting utility data into Portfolio Manager, what web services actually involve, and how to keep meter histories complete.
How to assemble consumption and cost data across many buildings, tenants and utilities, and keep it current once the first pull is done.
Managing interval data across many submeters: standardizing formats, handling volume, and delivering usable data to customers and analytics.
How energy retailers and brokers get customer consumption data for pricing, offers, and enrolment: authorized Green Button access plus standardized delivery by API, CSV, or SFTP.
Download My Data is a one-time XML export. Connect My Data is an authorized ongoing feed. Compare freshness, effort and scale, and pick the right one.
One API for customer utility data across 55+ Ontario utilities: REST, SFTP, JSON and CSV delivery, OAuth authorization and standardized intervals.
Portal logins and chasing PDF bills across clients cost energy consultants hours, so here is how authorized data feeds give those hours back.
Green Button gives you meter usage and interval data, and bill digitization gives you the actual billed charges. Here is when you need each.
How to get consumption, interval and billing data from any Ontario electricity or gas utility: portal export, Green Button, or PDF bills.
Screaming Power is working with the University of Ottawa and IBM Cyber Range on cybersecurity testing, including penetration testing of our platform.
BillScan reads digital and scanned utility bills for electricity, gas, water, and steam, then converts every line item into structured data that can be analyzed, benchmarked, charted, and reported on. Built on MartinAI.
Screaming Power announces acceptance into Ontario's Critical Industrial Technologies program, with matched investment supporting the expansion of Martin.ai, an AI platform automating utility bill and meter data validation.
Screaming Power launches the EZGB API Pilot, enabling direct integration for energy data platforms through OAuth 2.0, REST APIs, and Green Button standards.
UEnergyHub Canada serves as a centralized energy data hub, simplifying data contribution for researchers and stakeholders while maintaining data integrity and privacy.
UEnergyHub empowers researchers, innovators, and consumers with accessible energy data to drive climate action, education, and a greener future.