Registry · Credentials · Schemes · Standards
Every energy credential Canadians hold was issued by an organization in another country, and there is no public way to check any of them. CABCEP is building the national registry that fixes the second problem, and developing schemes for the work no Canadian credential covers at all.
Verified entries only. Every credential is checked with the organization that issued it before it appears, and the date of that check is shown on the entry.
CABCEP is not an accredited certification body. It holds no accreditation from the Standards Council of Canada or any other accreditation body, and it has no application in progress.
It issues no certification today. Nobody holds a CABCEP credential, because none exists. The schemes described on this site are in development.
It delivers no training, and never will. An organization that both teaches candidates and decides whether they pass has an unmanaged conflict, and the international standard for certifying people treats that arrangement as a threat to impartiality on its face. The policy is published in full.
Industry watch · 29 notices, checked 21 Sep 2026
Programme closures, rebate changes, municipal bylaws, code editions and standards revisions — federal, every province, and commercial and industrial as well as residential. Each one dated and linked to the page it came from. If we cannot cite it, it is not here.
The final submission deadline has passed. The grant that created the modern Canadian retrofit workforce, and the EnerGuide evaluation market that sat under it, no longer accepts anything. Applications already in the system continue to be processed.
Natural Resources Canada↗Checked 21 Sep 2026
NECB 2025 adds greenhouse gas emissions to the code's environmental objective and introduces a harmonized tiered framework provinces can select performance levels from. For the first time it applies energy requirements to alterations of existing buildings, updates thermal bridging, adds an energy-use-intensity compliance path recognising compact housing forms, and incorporates 50-year projected climate data. Provincial adoption is the next question.
National Research Council Canada↗Checked 21 Sep 2026
Under Municipal Code Chapter 367, buildings of 50,000 sq ft and larger have reported since 2024 and had to file 2025 energy and water use by 2 July 2026. Buildings of 929 to 4,644 m² — 10,000 to 49,999 sq ft — begin mandatory reporting in 2027, first deadline 2 July 2027. That second cohort is tens of thousands of small commercial and multi-unit buildings whose owners have never benchmarked anything.
City of Toronto↗Checked 21 Sep 2026
From 1 April 2026 eligible property assessment is capped at $1,200,000 for Levels 1 and 2 and $1,820,000 for Level 3. For applications received on or after 6 July 2026 an eligibility code is valid for three months from approval and the rebate must be claimed within six months of the invoice date. Maximum support stays high — up to $13,000 on a central ducted heat pump replacing oil — but the paperwork window is now short enough to lose a job on.
CleanBC · Better Homes BC↗Checked 21 Sep 2026
Ontario's Expanded Energy Management Program funds up to 50% of an energy manager's salary to $100,000 per facility per year, provides Strategic Energy Management coaching, and offers up to $250,000 for energy management information systems at large industrial sites. Eligibility starts at 3,000,000 kWh for commercial SEM or 20,000 GJ for industrial. NRCan-funded industrial activity has to be complete by 31 March 2027.
Save on Energy · IESO↗Checked 21 Sep 2026
Council directed staff on 21 May 2026 to pause enforcement of the Annual Greenhouse Gas and Energy Limits By-law, which set emissions and heat-energy intensity limits on existing office and retail buildings. Reporting stays in place — a complete report by 1 September still returns performance comparisons — and staff report back in the first half of 2027. Anyone selling compliance services against this bylaw has to re-scope.
City of Vancouver↗Checked 21 Sep 2026
NRCan is not accepting new Service Organization applications for either the EnerGuide Rating System or ENERGY STAR for New Homes, stating there are currently enough licensed service organizations to meet market demand. The closure is under review with no reopening timeline. Existing ERS-licensed organizations may still request ENERGY STAR authorization; anyone planning to start a new one cannot.
Natural Resources Canada↗Checked 21 Sep 2026
The $600 assessment rebate survives, but the obligation is going. Attic insulation — the highest-volume measure in the programme — now pays through a single-upgrade path with no evaluation at all. No end date for the programme has ever been published; the risk to advisors is not the programme closing, it is the programme keeping the money and dropping the advisor.
Home Renovation Savings (Enbridge Gas and Save on Energy)↗Checked 21 Sep 2026
Nova Scotia and Ottawa committed $26 million — $20 million federal through Greener Homes Affordability and $6 million provincial — to widen HomeWarming and the African Nova Scotian Communities Retrofit Program to more than 1,600 additional households. Delivery runs through EfficiencyOne, so the work lands in its contractor network. More than 18,000 Nova Scotia homes took part in efficiency programmes in 2025-26.
Government of Nova Scotia↗Checked 21 Sep 2026
Spotted something we have missed? A programme change, a standard revision, a provincial rule, a municipal bylaw, a product approval. Send it with the source and it goes up with your name on it if you want it there.
Send a noticeWhy this board exists
Nobody in it was asked first. There was no organization whose job it was to be asked.
Figures published by Corporate Knightschecked 30 Sep 2026. We quote the number that was published and attributed rather than the larger one circulating in the trade, because a board that exaggerates on its own front page cannot then ask anyone to trust its register.
The interest-free loan was shut in September 2025, with no warning to the people whose businesses ran on it.
The grant itself closed on 31 December 2025 — roughly thirty months into funding allocated for seven years, after 500,000 applications and 165,000 grants.
NRCan then stopped licensing new service organizations altogether, which closes the last door for anyone trying to rebuild.
Licensed people, trained to a federal standard, with files and clients and equipment, watched their profession end without being consulted, warned, or counted. Every other side of this industry — manufacturers, builders, utilities — has an association that gets a phone call. The people doing the work do not.
Not lobbying. Not a newsletter. Four concrete things, and the first two are already running on this site.
Every programme closure, rebate change, code edition, municipal bylaw and standard revision — dated and linked. So that nobody finds out from a customer again.
Industry watch →A national register of licensed practitioners, vetted companies and the organizations that train them. Free to be on, verified against the issuing body.
The register →A magazine written for the people doing this work, free to them, so that what happens to this trade is written down by someone who is in it.
The magazine →A body with a register, a publication and a membership can be asked what the effect of a decision will be. A body with none of those cannot be, and is not.
Sit on a committee →Three registers, one record
Listing is free and it stays free. We verify what can be verified, we say plainly what has only been declared, and we never charge anyone to move up a tier. The register is only worth something to the public if it cannot be bought, so it cannot be bought.
Energy advisors, energy managers, auditors, solar and ground source practitioners, engineers and technologists. One entry, the credential worded the way its issuer words it, and the date we last confirmed it with them.
Insulation and air sealing, HVAC and heat pumps, windows and doors, solar and storage, ground source, general retrofit, residential energy advisory, commercial and industrial audit, engineering and design. Three verification tiers, and a tier is never sold.
The colleges, training providers, examination centres, NRCan service organizations and professional bodies that qualify and employ this workforce. Who they are, what they issue or deliver, and where they operate. New, and open for submissions.
Before anything appears
Already listed elsewhere? That is not a reason to skip this. Provincial networks, utility contractor lists and manufacturer programmes each cover one province, one utility or one product. Nobody keeps the national picture, which is the gap this fills.
The catalogue
None of these is ours. Cataloguing other organizations' credentials, plainly and accurately, is what makes this a reference rather than a product list — and it is the same discipline that lets the registry list the people who hold them.
Residential EnerGuide and Part 9 housing evaluation. Two examinations, then affiliation with a licensed Service Organization. No training required, and none offered.
What commercial and industrial energy work in Canada actually runs on, and what several utility programmes name directly in their eligibility rules.
PV Associate as the entry credential, and professional certifications requiring documented installation experience. Accredited, recognised here, not Canadian.
Licences that exist to stop people being hurt. Necessary, enforceable, and silent on whether a heat pump was sized against a real load calculation.
The highest-volume energy work in the country, and nothing certifies the people doing it. The nearest instrument anywhere is American. This is scheme one.
Where a report has to be signed for a lender, an insurer or a code official. Narrower than most people assume, and written down in the programme document.
Credentials and marks belong to the organizations that issue them and are described here for reference. Inclusion implies no affiliation with, or endorsement by, any of them, in either direction. Requirements change and vary by province — the issuing body is always the authority on its own rules.
In development · first issue 2027
The United States has North American Clean Energy. Canada has nothing equivalent written from inside the efficiency trade — no publication that covers what a programme change does to a contractor, what a new code edition means on site, or which products actually hold up in a Canadian winter.
We are building one. Free to every subscriber, permanently, because the people who need it most are the ones least able to expense a subscription.
Cover shown is an illustration of the format, not a published issue.
Register A · free, permanently
Five short steps. We check each credential with the organization that issued it, then publish the verified entry. Companies have their own, longer application; training and licensing organizations have theirs; and if you would rather help run this, there is a seat on a committee.