Enbridge Sustain
Company Overview#
Enbridge Sustain is an unregulated energy services company owned by Enbridge Gas Inc. providing Energy as a Service (EaaS) products in Ontario.
Enbridge Sustain has the following services:
- Long (slow capital) lease-style financing (decades-long)
- Retrofits
- Install of energy options:
- hybrid (gas/electric systems)
- geothermal
- solar
- cold-climate heat pump systems
- EV charging stations
- AI/algorithm-driven heating option balancing cost with CO2-emissions
- Maintenance
- Review of energy use
- Proposed energy savings options
- Customer service
The focused customers include:
- Condominium retrofits
- Developer of new builds in the large residential and industrial settings
- Multi-family developments
- Single family units
Energy as a Service (EaaS)#
The Energy as a Service is a long-lease service (subscription) model for financing energy options for consumers and developers. The consumer does not own the infrastructure that produces and stores power, but leases access to the infrastructure that connects the residence/building to different energy options for temperature control and specific energy uses such as Electric Vehicle charging stations.
The regulatory environment in Ontario has supported the establishment of privatized energy services through subsidies. The subsidies support transition of heating and cooling energy services to lower CO2 emitting products and reducing draw from the central grid.
Enbridge Gas Inc.'s relationship to Enbridge Sustain#
Enbridge Sustain is part of Enbridge Gas Inc.'s plan to transition into a post-natural gas consumer energy company.
In a webinar put on by the Canadian Home Builders' Association, the Product Development Specialist at Enbridge Sustain explains how the new initiative of Enbridge Gas is going to work to expand the company's reach into helping builders and owners install new individualized energy solutions. The focus is on establishing EaaS contracts with new builds and providing full service support from assessment to design to build to maintain of that development for a regular fee.
Enbridge Sustain is a company owned by Enbridge Gas Inc., but is not regulated similar to the gas side of the business. In essence, Enbridge Sustain avoids the regulation of behind-the-meter services by selling services that are not gas services. The regulated natural gas services side can sell gas to the consumer while Enbridge Sustain sells its services to the same consumer as part of the EaaS contract for private energy management.
The announcement establishing Enbridge Sustain was supported by the Ontario environment minister:
"We are keeping costs down for the people of Ontario by supporting this transition by advancing affordable, immediate, and practical solutions to reduce emissions that include things like geothermal heating," said David Piccini, Minister of the Environment, Conservation and Parks. "I applaud Enbridge for offering a new service for Ontarians to support building a low-carbon economy and contribute to our provincial greenhouse gas reduction targets."
Purchase of HVAC Companies?#
I am unable to find any indication of a purchase of an HVAC company by Enbridge Gas or Enbridge Sustain.
Enbridge Sustain seems to be leaning on internal knowledge from the renewable side and Technology + Innovation labs owned by Enbridge Inc..