Breakdown of a household’s electricity use

54% Heating and air-conditioning

Whether you heat your home using baseboard heaters, a heat pump or any other electric heating source, your heating habits can affect your electricity consumption. For a better understanding of how cold weather affects your heating system, watch our video and discover our heating tips.

Watch our video on how cold weather

Even if the main heating system in your home is not electrical, auxiliary electrical heaters can still have a considerable impact on your electricity bill in the winter. Adopt energy-wise habits like lowering the temperature setting in your garage, for example.

• Follow our heating tips

20% Hot water

Main household uses of hot water*

• 34% – Faucets
• 25% – Showers
• 17% – Baths
• 15% – Laundry
• 4% – Dishwashing
• 5% – Leaks

*Source: Canadian Building Energy End-Use Data and Analysis Centre

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18% Appliances and electronics

Consumption per appliance type*

• 33% – Refrigerator
• 18% – Dryer
• 16% – Other¹
• 15% – Range
• 13% – Freezer
• 3% – Dishwasher²
• 2% – Washer²

*Source: Natural Resources Canada

1. Including devices such as televisions, DVD players, radios and computers
2. Excluding hot water consumption

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5% Lighting

Even though lighting represents only a small fraction of electricity consumption, there are many ways you can use it more wisely. The average home can have close to 40 lightbulbs. How many efficient bulbs are in yours?

Tips on lighting

3% Other

This category includes some specific devices – for example, pool equipment, a sump pump, woodworking tools, etc. Since distribution is based on the average of all Québec households, it does not reflect the actual consumption of a household with a pool, which is much higher than 3%.