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Energy Data API for Canada

Buyers see square footage and bedrooms, but not what a home costs to run. Neighbourly joins verified utility consumption to listings, benchmarked locally and ready for the listing page.

What's included

Verified utility data — the missing data point on every listing.

  • Verified consumption via Green Button partnerships — not modeled estimates
  • Efficiency score, monthly cost projection and neighbourhood benchmark
  • Built around explicit homeowner consent and provincial privacy law

Endpoints

/energy/listing
Full reference in the docs

Query by

  • By coordinate
  • By address
  • By bounding box
Why it matters

What the Energy Data layer gives your team.

01

Verified, not modeled

Actual utility consumption via Green Button partnerships — not estimates — so the numbers hold up.

02

Listing-page ready

Efficiency score, monthly cost and neighbourhood benchmark come formatted for display.

03

Privacy by design

Built around explicit homeowner consent and provincial law, exposing only aggregated, listing-appropriate insights.

What you can build

Use cases.

A few of the things teams build on the Energy Data layer.

Listing energy insights

Show what a home costs to run, benchmarked locally.

Underwriting & risk

Feed verified consumption into property-condition models.

Efficiency benchmarking

Compare a home against its neighbourhood.

Buyer cost transparency

Give buyers the missing data point on every listing.

The API in action

See it in a request.

Example request
GETcURL
curl -H "Api-Key: $NEIGHBOURLY_KEY" \
  "https://api.neighbourly.io/api/v1/locations/energy/listing?listing_id=X1234567"
200 OKapplication/json
{
  "efficiency_score": 87,
  "monthly_cost_estimate": 142,
  "neighbourhood_benchmark": -18,
  "source": "green_button"
}

Energy is an add-on layer; shape is representative.

Energy Data API — common questions

What is the Energy Data API?

It joins verified utility consumption data to listings — giving buyers the missing data point of what a home actually costs to run, benchmarked locally and ready for the listing page.

Where does the energy data come from?

Verified utility data via Green Button partnerships and direct utility channels — actual consumption, not modeled estimates.

What does the energy layer output?

An energy efficiency score, a monthly cost projection and a neighbourhood benchmark — all listing-page ready.

How is privacy handled for energy data?

It's built around explicit homeowner consent and provincial privacy law, and exposes aggregated, listing-appropriate insights — never raw consumption data.

What is the coverage for energy data?

Coverage is strongest in Ontario and expanding nationally with utility-partner rollout and provincial disclosure programs.

How is the energy layer accessed?

It's available as an add-on on the Professional and Enterprise plans — self-serve for real estate use cases, with an underwriting agreement for lender and insurance use.

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Build with the Energy Data API.

One API key, ten data layers, Canada-wide. Get access or talk to our team.