# HeatingNews.ca

> HeatingNews.ca is a digital marketing and business consulting service for HVAC and heating companies in Canada. We are not an HVAC contractor and do not install or repair equipment. Owners of heating, furnace, boiler and heat pump contracting companies in every Canadian province and territory

HeatingNews.ca is part of the Sedighi.ca and SAZ.ca group of companies, a Canadian business headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, led by Ali Sedighi, MBA. Coverage: Canada.

Contact: call or text (604) 632-4959, or email Ali@Sedighi.ca. There are no forms: call, text or email only.

## Key pages
- [Home](https://heatingnews.ca/): HeatingNews.ca reports utility rate decisions, energy prices and provincial program changes across Canada from primary sources, and helps heating contractors turn those changes into clear answers for their customers.
- [Services](https://heatingnews.ca/services/): We offer four services for heating companies. Which one comes first depends on your fuel mix, your province's rate calendar and how customers find you today.
- [Areas](https://heatingnews.ca/areas/): We cover all 10 provinces and 3 territories. Each has its own fuel mix, utility regulator, rate calendar and programs, and each page sets out what that means for a heating contractor.
- [About](https://heatingnews.ca/about/): HeatingNews.ca reports heating market news by province and markets heating companies across Canada. Ali Sedighi, MBA leads it from Vancouver within the Sedighi.ca and SAZ.ca group. We are not a heating contractor.
- [Results](https://heatingnews.ca/results/): These are published results for named heating and HVAC companies, each linked to the live site. They show what the method produced in specific markets, not what any other company should expect.
- [Pricing](https://heatingnews.ca/pricing/): Marketing plans start at $2,998 a month and websites at $3,500, in Canadian dollars. A free seven-day trial comes first, no card needed, and no plan ties you in.
- [FAQ](https://heatingnews.ca/faq/): Straight answers to the questions heating contractors ask us most: about the newsroom, prices, contracts, timelines, ownership and what to expect.
- [Contact](https://heatingnews.ca/contact/): Call or text (604) 632-4959, or email Ali@Sedighi.ca. Tell us your province, your service area and the fuels you work with, and we will take it from there.

## Services
- [Fuel-switching campaigns](https://heatingnews.ca/services/fuel-switching-campaigns/): When energy prices move, some homeowners start comparing fuels and systems. These campaigns reach them with dated, honest comparisons and a clear way to ask your company for a quote.
- [Local search](https://heatingnews.ca/services/heating-local-seo/): Most heating calls begin with a local search. We make sure your company appears for the towns and systems you serve, with pages that reflect local fuels, utilities and climate.
- [Heating-season ads](https://heatingnews.ca/services/heating-season-ads/): Paid search can bring heating calls within days. We plan budgets and messages around your province's weather, rate calendar and program dates, and measure them by booked work.
- [Rate-change pages](https://heatingnews.ca/services/rate-change-content/): When a regulator approves new gas or electricity rates, or a provincial program changes, homeowners search for what it means. We write the page that answers them, on your website, with the source and date.

## Coverage
- [Alberta](https://heatingnews.ca/areas/alberta/): Alberta heats mostly with natural gas, sets its default gas commodity price monthly, and has no province-wide home heating rebate. Marketing here runs on cold weather, equipment age and financing, not fuel-switching arguments.
- [British Columbia](https://heatingnews.ca/areas/british-columbia/): BC is split almost evenly between gas and electric heat, its climate ranges from mild coast to cold north, and its main rebate program changed its rules in July 2026. Each of those shapes how a heating company should market here.
- [Manitoba](https://heatingnews.ca/areas/manitoba/): Manitoba has one of the longest heating seasons in southern Canada, a large share of electrically heated homes, rising Manitoba Hydro rates and active Efficiency Manitoba heat pump programs.
- [New Brunswick](https://heatingnews.ca/areas/new-brunswick/): New Brunswick is an electric heating province where heat pumps are already the primary system in about a quarter of homes, NB Power rates rose 4.29% in April 2026, and oil-to-heat-pump funding has closed to new registrations.
- [Newfoundland and Labrador](https://heatingnews.ca/areas/newfoundland-and-labrador/): Newfoundland and Labrador heats mainly with electricity, keeps a sizeable oil-heated minority, and has one of Canada's larger oil-to-electric incentives through takeCHARGE, paid to participating installers.
- [Nova Scotia](https://heatingnews.ca/areas/nova-scotia/): Nova Scotia's homes are split between electricity, oil and heat pumps, and both fuels rose in price in 2026. Efficiency Nova Scotia's rebates changed after the oil-to-heat-pump program closed, so current information matters.
- [Ontario](https://heatingnews.ca/areas/ontario/): Ontario is Canada's largest heating market, mostly gas-heated, with gas prices that change every quarter through the Ontario Energy Board and an active provincial rebate program for heat pumps.
- [Prince Edward Island](https://heatingnews.ca/areas/prince-edward-island/): PEI has the highest share of heat pump-heated homes in our data, a large oil-heated minority facing sharply higher oil prices, and several efficiencyPEI programs that closed in 2026.
- [Quebec](https://heatingnews.ca/areas/quebec/): Quebec is Canada's most electric heating market, with three years of residential rate increases now set, active Hydro-Québec heat pump grants, and language rules that make French the first language of any marketing.
- [Saskatchewan](https://heatingnews.ca/areas/saskatchewan/): Saskatchewan is a gas-heated province with one of the longest heating seasons in southern Canada, a utility rebate for high-efficiency gas equipment, and one safety authority for gas, electrical and plumbing.
- [Territories](https://heatingnews.ca/areas/territories/): The three territories share the longest heating seasons in Canada but differ in programs, regulators and language rules. Heating is needed for most of the year everywhere north of 60.

## Guides and articles
- [News](https://heatingnews.ca/news/): Every story here starts from a regulator, utility or Statistics Canada document we loaded and read, carries that document's own date, and keeps our contractor analysis in a separate, labelled section.
- [Alberta October gas rate](https://heatingnews.ca/news/alberta-default-gas-rate-october-2026/): Direct Energy Regulated Services announced on September 30, 2026 that its default natural gas rate for October is $1.458 per gigajoule in the ATCO Gas North and South territories, up $0.334 from September. Typical October bills were estimated at about $101 in the north and $88 in the south.
- [Enbridge Gas July 2026](https://heatingnews.ca/news/enbridge-gas-ontario-july-2026-qram/): On June 23, 2026 the Ontario Energy Board approved interim natural gas prices for Enbridge Gas effective July 1. Typical residential bills rise between $7.50 and $41.24 a year depending on rate zone, mainly to recover supply costs from a winter that ran 10% colder than normal.
- [FortisBC January 2026 rates](https://heatingnews.ca/news/fortisbc-gas-rates-january-2026/): FortisBC Energy Inc. announced on December 9, 2025 that the British Columbia Utilities Commission had approved a gas rate increase starting January 1, 2026. The average residential bill rises about 11.1%, or $10.95 a month, with Fort Nelson customers at about 11.5%.
- [Fuel oil prices, September CPI](https://heatingnews.ca/news/fuel-oil-prices-cpi-september-2026/): Statistics Canada reported on October 19, 2026 that the price index for fuel oil and other fuels rose 57.8% year over year in September, after a 43.7% rise in August. The agency noted the impact is greater in Atlantic Canada, where more homes burn oil.
- [Hydro-Québec rates 2026–2028](https://heatingnews.ca/news/hydro-quebec-rates-2026-2028/): In decision D-2026-033, announced March 16, 2026, the Régie de l'énergie put the overall increase at 3.2% on average across Hydro-Québec's customers for each year of a three-year rate cycle. Residential rates rise 3.0% from April 1, 2026, within a government cap, with a larger increase on the second energy tier.
- [Manitoba Hydro 2026 rates](https://heatingnews.ca/news/manitoba-hydro-interim-rate-increase-2026/): Manitoba's Public Utilities Board issued Order 161/25 on December 30, 2025, approving a 4.0% general rate increase for Manitoba Hydro effective January 1, 2026 on an interim basis. Manitoba Hydro had applied for 3.5% a year for 2026, 2027 and 2028.
- [NB Power 2026/27 rates](https://heatingnews.ca/news/nb-power-rate-decision-2026-27/): The New Brunswick Energy and Utilities Board released its written reasons on August 26, 2026 for NB Power's 2026/27 rates: a uniform 4.29% increase across all rate classes, lower than the 4.75% requested. The new rates took effect April 14, 2026, and the Board refused to let NB Power recover the two-week gap through a rider.
- [NS Power 2026–2027 rates](https://heatingnews.ca/news/nova-scotia-power-rate-decision-2026/): The Nova Scotia Energy Board issued its decision on Nova Scotia Power's 2026 general rate application on March 25, 2026. It approved increases for 2026 and 2027 but ordered cost reductions, so residential increases are expected to come in slightly below the 3.8% and 4.1% the utility proposed.

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