Energy Data · Ontario Utilities · Live Data

Live utility consumption data for Ontario properties.

Actual billing and meter data from 50+ Ontario electricity, gas, and water utilities — standardized, automated, and delivered daily via REST API, keyed to any validated Ontario address.

Electricity · Gas · Water 50+ Ontario utilities Address-keyed Daily updates 2 yrs historical
147 Lakeshore Road East, Mississauga Live utility data
⚡ Electricity 🔥 Natural Gas 💧 Water
487
kWh this billing period Alectra Utilities · April 2025
Hourly interval data available
Monthly consumption vs. 12-month average
Billed amount
$94.21 CAD
Data interval
Hourly
Last updated
Daily
History available
24 months
Electricity interval data Natural gas billing Water consumption 50+ Ontario utilities Daily automated refresh
Why utility data matters

Energy costs are the hidden variable in every real estate decision.

Buyers, lenders, and property managers increasingly need actual consumption data — not estimates. Ontario's utilities have it. Until now, accessing it required separate agreements with each provider, manual retrieval, and inconsistent formats.

50+
Ontario utilities connected
Ontario has a fragmented utility landscape — dozens of local electricity distributors, plus natural gas and water providers. Neighbourly normalizes data from all of them into a single consistent schema.
Source: Ontario Energy Board utility registry
24 mo
Historical data available per meter
Two years of billing and metered consumption gives lenders, buyers, and analysts the trend data needed to assess energy costs, seasonal patterns, and anomalies with confidence.
Provided via standardized Green Button data format
Daily
Automated data refresh
Consumption data is refreshed automatically every day. No manual retrieval, no stale records — always current meter and billing data, ready to query by address.
Electricity: hourly · Gas & water: monthly billing cycles
What the API delivers

Three commodities. One consistent API.

Electricity, natural gas, and water consumption data — all accessible through the same address-keyed endpoint, with standardized field names and consistent units across every Ontario utility.

Electricity interval data

Actual meter readings at 5-minute, 15-minute, or hourly intervals — depending on the meter type. Includes peak vs. off-peak split, total monthly consumption in kWh, and billed amount.

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Natural gas billing data

Monthly billing records including consumption in m³, billed amount, and rate class. Normalized across Ontario gas distributors into a single consistent schema.

Water consumption data

Municipal water billing data where available — monthly consumption in m³, billed amount, and service address. Expanding utility coverage updated continuously.

How it works

Standardized data from every Ontario utility.

Ontario utilities deliver energy data in the Green Button standard — but each utility implements it differently, updates their systems at different rates, and provides data in slightly different formats. Managing connections to 50+ providers independently is a serious engineering burden.

Neighbourly handles every utility connection, normalizes the data format, monitors for outages, and delivers a single consistent API response — keyed to address, refreshed daily, with two years of history available from day one.

Utility data record · sample fields
Utility Alectra Utilities
Commodity Electricity
Billing period Apr 1 – Apr 30, 2025
Total consumption 487 kWh
Billed amount $94.21 CAD
Data interval Hourly
Last refreshed 2025-05-01 06:00 UTC
Historical depth 24 months
API reference

One call. Full utility context.

Validate an address with the address API, then call the energy endpoint with the returned address_id. Specify commodity (electricity, gas, water) or retrieve all at once.

  • utility_nameThe Ontario utility provider for this meter
  • commodityelectricity, natural_gas, or water
  • billing_start / billing_endBilling period start and end dates (ISO 8601)
  • total_kwh / total_m3Total consumption for the period, in kWh or m³
  • total_cost_cadBilled amount in Canadian dollars
  • interval_dataArray of interval readings (5-min, 15-min, or hourly)
  • data_intervalGranularity of interval data: 5min, 15min, hourly, monthly
  • data_updated_atTimestamp of last successful data refresh
  • address_idNeighbourly address foreign key
GET /v1/energy?address_id=8421&commodity=electricity 200 OK
{
  "address_id":       8421,
  "commodity":        "electricity",
  "utility_name":     "Alectra Utilities",
  "meter_id":         "1000012345",
  "billing_start":    "2025-04-01",
  "billing_end":      "2025-04-30",
  "total_kwh":        487,
  "total_cost_cad":   94.21,
  "peak_kwh":         198,
  "off_peak_kwh":     289,
  "data_interval":    "hourly",
  "data_updated_at":  "2025-05-01T06:00:00Z",
  "_links": {
    "address":   "/v1/address/8421",
    "intervals": "/v1/energy/intervals?address_id=8421"
  }
}
Who uses it

Utility data that belongs in every property workflow.

Listing Platforms

Actual utility costs on listing pages

Display real electricity, gas, and water costs from the prior 12 months directly on listing detail pages. Buyers increasingly ask about carrying costs — give them verified utility data instead of estimates.

Mortgage & Lending

Verified utility costs for affordability assessment

Replace estimated utility costs in affordability models with actual billing data. Assess green financing eligibility, flag high-consumption properties, and support energy-efficient mortgage programs with real data.

Portfolio Management

Portfolio-level consumption benchmarking

Query utility data for an entire property portfolio in bulk. Track total energy spend, identify outlier properties, benchmark against similar buildings, and target capital upgrades where consumption is highest.

Sustainability & ESG

Actual emissions from actual consumption

Calculate GHG emissions from verified utility consumption data rather than energy audits or estimates. Generate defensible ESG disclosures and track year-over-year improvement across a property portfolio.

Get early access to the utility data layer.

Neighbourly's Ontario utility data layer is in early access. Talk to us about integrating live electricity, gas, and water consumption data into your product or platform.

Frequently asked questions

Common questions about this data and how to use it.

What energy data does this API provide?

Live billing and meter data — electricity, natural gas, and water consumption — keyed to Ontario addresses.

Which utilities are covered?

Data from more than 50 Ontario utilities, delivered through a single REST API.

Is coverage Ontario-only?

Energy data currently covers Ontario; other provinces roll out as utility partnerships allow.

What is it used for?

Green mortgage products, energy disclosure on listings, and operating-cost insight for buyers and lenders.

How is consumption keyed to a property?

Consumption is linked to the normalized Neighbourly address for any Ontario address.