• For the EA & SO Sector, the issues of consumer demand and quality awareness involve the market for and education about energy evaluations, ratings, and labels.

• As of 2018 there is moderately low demand for existing homes energy evaluations and EnerGuide Rating System ratings and labels.

• The Home Renovation Rebate Bonus Offer and the Oil to Heat Pump Incentive Program are the only two rebate offers in market that require an energy evaluation.

• Canada's Buildings Strategy, released in August 2017, has the following goal: "Federal, provincial, and territorial government will work together with the aim of requiring labelling of building energy use by as early as 2019."

• In September 2017, the Union of BC Municipalities endorsed a resolution calling for "Provincial Action on Building Energy Benchmarking," which demonstrates widespread local government support for energy-efficient buildings that improve the quality and health of living and work spaces, and supports innovation in the local supply chain.

• In September 2017, the BC government's throne speech promised "decisive action" on climate change, including creating jobs through energy retrofits.

• In addition to supporting benchmarking, the 2017 UBCM resolution identifies significant local government support for energy labelling

• As an example of one model for requiring energy labelling, existing homes energy evaluations, based on the EnerGuide Rating System, are being integrated as a requirement into the Vancouver Building Bylaw, for some renovations over $5,000 in value.