Canadian energy data tools

Ottawa Visuals

Canadian energy data, made explorable

Eight interactive tools built from public data — how Canadians heat their homes, what gets built, and what powers the grid. Each one is a Python pipeline turning open data into a self-contained page: no backend, no login, no live queries. Pick one below.

Retrofit Explorer
1.45M real Canadian home-energy retrofits — what homes like yours did, and what their audits say it saved.
NRCan EnerGuide, 2004–2026Explore →
Retrofit Insights
The national picture behind the same 1.45M retrofits — leaderboards, climate & equity lenses, what actually works.
NRCan EnerGuide + StatCanExplore →
New Homes Explorer
How efficient brand-new construction actually is — as-designed plans vs. blower-door-tested as-built homes.
NRCan EnerGuide (P/N)Explore →
CEUD Explorer
NRCan's Comprehensive Energy Use Database, browsable — where Canada's energy actually goes, sector by sector.
NRCan CEUDExplore →
Construction Tracker
Permits, housing starts and construction investment — national, provincial and metro, refreshed monthly.
StatCan · CMHC · BoCExplore →
Grid Dashboard
What's powering the grid right now — Ontario & Alberta generation mix, and why "average" and "marginal" emissions disagree.
IESO · AESO · Hydro-QuébecExplore →
Ottawa Geothermal Map
Ground-source heat pump screening for Ottawa — conductivity from 55k water wells, drilling difficulty, grid capacity.
Ontario WWIS · City of OttawaExplore →
Heat Pump Explorer
An hour-by-hour simulation: your home, your heating, real cold-climate equipment and your province's real grid.
IESO/AESO/HQ · NEEP · ERSExplore →

About the data

Every tool here follows the same pattern: an offline Python pipeline turns a public government (or utility) dataset into compact JSON, and a single self-contained HTML page renders it in your browser — no server, no account, no tracking beyond standard page analytics. Values are modelled or reported figures from the original source, not independently measured; each tool states its own caveats on-page.

Built by Ottawa Visuals, source on GitHub. Website, data pipelines and Python scripts were developed using Claude AI.

NRCan EnerGuide / ERS NRCan CEUD Statistics Canada CMHC Bank of Canada IESO AESO Hydro-Québec Ontario WWIS City of Ottawa Hydro Ottawa / OEB CCIM