Heating market news by province, for the contractors who live with it

This month's heating market, in brief

The short answer: oil is up sharply, electricity is rising steadily, and gas depends entirely on where you are.

• Heating oil: Statistics Canada's September 2026 CPI shows fuel oil and other fuels 57.8% higher than a year earlier, with the heaviest effect in Atlantic Canada.
• Electricity: regulators approved increases of 4.29% for NB Power, 4.0% interim for Manitoba Hydro and 3.0% for Hydro-Québec homes this year.
• Natural gas: FortisBC bills rose about 11% in January, Ontario's Enbridge Gas prices edged up in July, and Alberta's October default commodity rate was $1.458 per GJ.

The full list, grouped by region, is in the newsroom.

Why provincial detail matters to a heating business

The short answer: the same headline means different things to different customers, and your marketing should know the difference.

A 4% electricity increase is a real cost for a baseboard-heated home in Moncton and close to irrelevant for a gas-heated home in Saskatoon. A rise in oil prices moves Prince Edward Island, where oil was the primary heating energy for 28% of households in 2023, far more than British Columbia. Contractors who copy national messaging into a local market end up promising savings their customers cannot see on their own bills.

We use the provincial picture to decide three things for each client:

1. which homes in the service area a change actually affects;
2. what an honest message to those homes looks like, with dated numbers;
3. when to publish it, so it appears while people are searching.

Our areas section has a page for each province and the territories with the heating mix, regulators and open programs as of our last check.

What we do for heating contractors

The short answer: we turn market changes into pages, campaigns and local visibility, and we are not a contractor ourselves.

HeatingNews.ca is a digital marketing and business consulting service for heating companies. We do not install, repair or service any equipment. Our services are four, each built around how the heating market changes:

• Rate-change and program explainer pages that answer homeowners' questions about a decision in your area.
• Fuel-switching and replacement campaigns for homeowners weighing oil, gas, electric and heat pump options.
• Local search for heating contractors, built around your towns and fuels.
• Heating-season paid search that follows the cold and the rate calendar.

Proof from our HVAC work

The short answer: named clients, linked sites, published numbers.

Our approach comes from heating and cooling marketing. CanroHeat.ca recorded 250% lead growth. For CANRO Heat we built a gas-boiler division, GasBoilers.ca, which now reaches 26+ BC communities; its Google rating stands at 5.0★ from 76+ Google reviews. BCWide.ca reached 3× leads in 90 days. Roma Heating & Cooling grew organic traffic 400% in 12 months. The results page explains what each of these shows and what transfers to your market. Results depend on your market and operations, and no one can promise them.

Who runs HeatingNews.ca

The short answer: a Vancouver-based team in the Sedighi.ca and SAZ.ca group, led by Ali Sedighi, MBA.

HeatingNews.ca is Canadian, headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, and part of the Sedighi.ca and SAZ.ca group of companies. It belongs to the HVAC.Agency family. Ali Sedighi holds an MBA in Technology Management, has 17+ years of digital marketing experience starting in 2007, and has built 150+ live HVAC websites. More on who we are.

Our newsroom and our client work share the same rule: if we cannot load and read the source, we do not repeat the claim.

What it costs to work with us

The short answer: plans from $2,998 a month, websites from $3,500, with a 7-day free trial.

The trial covers a digital marketing audit, a website performance check, an SEO analysis and competitor benchmarking, with no credit card and no lock-in. Prices are in Canadian dollars; heating companies add GST/HST by province. See pricing for the three plans and website packages. If you want to talk through how this season's rate changes affect your service area, call, text or email.