Let me put a few more nuances on that.
If I sit in Halifax, there are a whole lot of people who would be heating with home heating oil and who might have supplementary wood. I'd certainly have an electricity bill, and I might have a bit of propane. The oil company that delivered it understands exactly how much energy I use, but do they report it back to me in a form that I can use very well? The answer is absolutely not. It's almost impossible to read the darn bill to understand why I'm being called upon to pay $500, never mind how this compared to last year, or whether it was because it was a cold winter. Why did it go up? They don't provide that information. They're not in that business, and they don't do it. I have no clue how many cords of wood I used this year because I bought a bunch last year. As for the propane, again, it's just like the oil. I understand a little about my electricity bill because it does provide me with a comparison of what I used last year, but again, it doesn't true it up and tell me whether that was a particularly cold year, or prompt me to remember that I put a second fridge in my basement.
Yes, there is data there, but to let me make a meaningful decision about the things I want to know, a whole lot of players have to act differently and provide more information than they do today. They're not going to do it voluntarily in many cases. Somebody needs to figure out how to get them into a position of giving me information that I can use and understand, and requiring it to happen over a long enough period of time so that they're updating their IT systems instead of having to invest a whole lot of money.