If you are, or represent, a new or growing large energy intensive business or industry that is looking to expand in Ontario, please reach out early in your planning process to our economic development group.

Effectively leveraging energy infrastructure is a key success factor for expanding energy intensive businesses anywhere. Enbridge Gas serves most of Ontario with an extensive natural gas pipeline system.

Our economic development group works with three main stakeholder groups to help large businesses expand in Ontario:

  1. New or existing energy intensive large businesses looking to expand to a new site.
  2. Site selectors and consultants that help large businesses review and rank sites.
  3. Municipal and provincial economic development groups.

Enbridge Gas’s economic development team can provide the following services:

  1. In our preliminary high-level assessments, we work with clients to understand their energy needs and identify areas of Ontario able to economically accommodate those needs.
  2. We conduct detailed site assessments on leading sites to understand the timelines and explore commercial arrangements to connecting incremental capacity.
  3. We work with municipal economic development groups and provincial government programs to propose and advance broader, more regional projects to create natural gas capacity in constrained areas in order to facilitate growth.
  4. We facilitate natural gas credentials for Ontario’s Certified Site program.

Our commitment

Enbridge Gas’ Economic Development group has a track record of delivering results and helping businesses to navigate the often choppy waters and obstacles to expand. We specialize in helping proponents of large projects, navigate the processes needed to get critical natural gas infrastructure ready and in-place to meet your deadlines.


Economic development projects currently underway:

The Ontario government’s Natural Gas Expansion Program (NGEP) mandates that all gas utility customers, under the oversight of the Ontario Energy Board, contribute $1/month to a fund that helps expand the natural gas grid to parts of the province where it would otherwise be uneconomical to do so. Enbridge Gas has worked with several local municipalities and existing large volume customers, in areas where natural gas capacity is currently economically constrained, to propose NGEP funding for economic development projects. Details on the approved economic development projects can be found here:

Other Expressions of Interest / Binding Reverse Open Seasons

Open Seasons Offered from 2021 to 2018
News item Date posted Closing date Status
Oakville to Mississauga Area Non-Binding Expression of Interest and Binding Reverse Open Season Jan. 25, 2024 March 8, 2024 Closed
Trenton to Kingston Area Non-Binding Expression of Interest and Binding Reverse Open Season Nov. 15, 2023 Jan. 26, 2024 Closed
Brockville to Iroquois Area Non-Binding Expression of Interest and Binding Reverse Open Season Nov. 9, 2023 Jan. 19, 2024 Closed
Haldimand-Nanticoke Area Non-Binding Expression of Interest and Binding Reverse Open Season Nov. 1, 2023 Jan. 12, 2024 Closed
Sudbury Lateral Area Non-Binding Expression of Interest and Binding Reverse Open Season Oct. 5, 2023 Nov. 21, 2023 Closed
St Laurent Pipeline Replacement Project (SLPRP) Non-Binding Expression of Interest and Binding Reverse Open Season Sept. 18, 2023 Oct. 23, 2023 Closed
Sarnia Transmission Market Area - Non-Binding Expression of Interest and Binding Reverse Open Season July 14, 2023 Aug. 23, 2023 Closed
Owen Sound Reinforcement Project Distribution Binding Reverse Open Season July 10, 2023 Aug. 17, 2023 Closed

Contact us

For more information or to connect with Enbridge Gas’s economic development team, please send email to economic.development@enbridge.com or fill out and submit the form below:

Is your opportunity a large business or industry that uses 100,000 m3/day or more of natural gas?