See how your city's rebates stack up

How PowerScore is calculated

Every city gets a score from 0–100 in each of 8 categories, built entirely from the rebate numbers already published on each city's page — nothing here is estimated or invented.

• 60% Dollar value — the top rebate amount available in that category, normalized against the highest amount found among cities in the same region (BC cities compare to BC's max, Ontario to Ontario's max, and so on — not across borders, since program structures differ completely between provinces, states, and countries).
• 25% Program status — Open programs get full credit, Funding Limited/Unclear programs get partial credit, and Closed or nonexistent programs get zero.
• 15% Stackability — how many distinct funding layers apply (federal, provincial/state, utility, municipal) — more layers that stack together score higher.

A city's overall PowerScore is the plain average of its 8 category scores. We recalculate this whenever the underlying city pages are updated with new rebate figures.

Est. Energy Cost is estimated average annual electricity + heating fuel cost for a 2,500 sq ft home, based on utility rate schedules and typical regional usage — not a quoted bill, and it plays no role in the PowerScore calculation above. Nova Scotia and Massachusetts show a range instead of a single figure because both regions have a significant share of oil-heated homes, which run meaningfully higher than gas or electric heat, alongside their other heating types. Figures marked with an asterisk (*) are approximated from a neighboring utility territory where a precise regional rate wasn't available.