Enbridge Gas will fund a steam trap survey by name, at up to half the cost. In our October 2026 review of thirteen Canadian energy consultancies, not one offered the service. That is a funded, high-return, uncontested piece of work sitting in plain sight.
A steam system fails invisibly and continuously. A trap that fails open vents live steam straight to atmosphere or to condensate return, and nothing about the plant tells anyone: the boiler just works slightly harder, every hour, for as long as it takes somebody to go and look. A trap that fails closed is worse operationally — it waterlogs the equipment it serves and the process underperforms — but at least that one gets reported, because something stops working.
That asymmetry is the whole reason surveys exist. Nobody reports the expensive failure mode.
The tagged trap register. A report that says "23 traps failed" is an invoice; a register that says which 23, where they are, what each one is losing and in what order to fix them is a work plan your maintenance team can execute and re-test against. We hand over the register as a spreadsheet, not only as a PDF.
| Item | Terms |
|---|---|
| Named fundable work | Engineering feasibility studies, steam trap surveys, air and water balancing, metering installations |
| Share funded | Up to 50% of eligible assessment costs |
| Cap | $10,000 commercial, $20,000 institutional, tiered by consumption |
| Minimum consumption | 100,000 m³ of natural gas in the previous year |
| Pre-approval | Required before the survey starts |
Source and full detail: Enbridge Gas will pay for up to half of your energy study.
Then the repairs themselves route through the Commercial Custom Retrofit Program at up to $0.40 per cubic metre of gas saved, to 75% of cost, capped at $100,000 commercial and $500,000 institutional.
The trap work does not. Air and water balancing does, it is funded by Enbridge by name, and it is also an eligible measure under IESO's Existing Building Commissioning programme — so the same work can sit inside two funding routes.
Good, and ask them for the register and the loss figures. If what comes back is a list of traps replaced rather than a tested population with losses quantified, you have a repair record rather than a survey, and you have no way to know what is still failing.
Site time depends almost entirely on trap count and access. The scheduling constraint is usually the Enbridge pre-approval in front of it, which is weeks rather than days.
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