Registry · Schemes · Standards
CABCEP is a Canadian board doing two things. Building the public national registry of energy practitioners that this country has never had — open to anyone certified by anyone. And developing certification schemes for the work no Canadian credential covers at all.
The Standards Council of Canada accredits a small number of bodies to certify persons. None of them works in energy. Every energy credential in common Canadian use — CEM, CEA, CMVP, NABCEP, BPI — is issued by an organization in another country. That is the gap. It is also a long, expensive thing to fill properly, and we would rather say so than pretend otherwise.
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An honest map, including the credentials we did not issue and the cases where none exists.
What the board does
Certification bodies that begin by announcing credentials tend not to finish. The ones that last build something the industry uses first, and earn the right to certify afterwards.
Searchable by province, city and discipline. Each entry shows the credential held, the body that issued it, and the date it was verified. Free to be listed, now and permanently.
Open · free · publicEvery listing is checked against the issuing organization before it appears. An unverifiable claim does not go up. That is the only thing that makes a registry worth reading.
Checked at the sourceNRCan registration, AEE credentials, NABCEP, BPI, provincial licences, trade certificates. Listing other bodies' certified people is the feature, not a concession.
Every issuing bodySend what you hold and who issued it. We verify it, publish it, and tell you when it is live. No membership, no fee, no obligation to anything else.
A form and a checkEnvelope work, air sealing, insulation and heat pump retrofit quality. There is no Canadian personnel certification for this. Trade certification covers the trade; nothing covers whether the building performs afterwards.
First scheme · in developmentCommercial, institutional and industrial auditing is satisfied in practice by American credentials. A Canadian scheme written against Canadian codes, climate and utility programs does not exist.
Second · scopingA documented job task analysis, a scheme committee with balanced representation, an exam developed with psychometric support and a defensible cut score. There is no shortcut that survives an assessment.
Job task analysis firstPublished before the first credential exists, because a policy written after the fact is written around the facts. The board delivers no training and requires no course.
Published in fullA scheme committee and an impartiality committee with producers, regulators, users and general interest represented — and not controlled by any one of them.
Balanced representationUtilities, program administrators, building owners, contractors, regulators and educators. If you have been irritated by the state of this for years, this is the seat.
Applications openThe honest map
Current as at September 2026, and maintained. Nothing on this list is ours.
Three gaps, and they are not small. No Canadian personnel certification exists for efficiency and retrofit contractors. None exists for commercial and industrial energy auditors. And there is no public national registry of individuals at all — which is why a building owner cannot check a credential today. The full comparison →
What the registry will look like
Illustrative structure — the registry opens with real entries once verification is running. Every field exists so that somebody checking a contractor can finish the check.
A registry that publishes unverified claims is worse than no registry, because it launders them. If a credential cannot be checked with the organization that issued it, the entry does not appear.
The road to a credential
Published so that nobody has to guess how far along this is, and so that we can be held to it.
Public, free, verified, open to practitioners certified by any body. Live first because it needs nobody's permission and the industry needs it today.
Job task analysis, scheme committee, impartiality committee. The unglamorous work that decides whether a credential means anything.
Items written by subject-matter experts who are not trainers, a defensible cut score, and the reliability statistics to prove it.
Issued conformant to the international standard but not yet accredited — and described that way, in those words, on every certificate.
Assessment against the standard by a national accreditation body, with witnessed examinations. It follows a working credential. It cannot precede one.
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