NAICS 221119Canadian industry · 6-digitregional market1 market record

Other electric power generation

This Canadian industry comprises establishments, not classified to any other Canadian industry, primarily engaged in the generation of electricity, using sources such as wind, solar or tidal energy. — Statistics Canada, NAICS 2022A

Establishments · CanadaA
233
with employees
Under 10 employeesA
73%
most common size: 1–4
01

Size and shape

How many businesses there are and how small they are. Fragmentation is the first thing an entrant — or anyone selling software into this industry — needs to know, and it is one of the few things that is actually measured.

Canadian establishments by number of employeesA

1–414663%
5–92410%
10–192511%
20–492812%
50–9973%
100–19931%
200–4990—
500+0—

Of 233 Canadian establishments with employees, 73% have fewer than ten — mostly small operators.

Where they areA

Ontario13156%
Alberta3515%
Quebec219%
British Columbia209%

Largest four provinces by establishment count. Establishments with employees only — sole operators with no payroll are not in this table, so in trades and personal services the true number of businesses is higher.

How many new establishments are still tradingA
Utilities, US · opened 2020
84.2%
1 year
69.7%
3 years
61.6%
5 years
47.2%
10 years
opened 2015

Measured, not forecast: the share of US establishments opening in one year that were still active later. It counts good operators and bad ones together, which is exactly why it is the honest answer to “what are the odds”. It is for the whole sector rather than this market, and the ten-year figure comes from an older cohort because no younger one has reached ten years.

No US figure is shown. County Business Patterns is coded to the 2017 US edition of NAICS; this code either does not exist there, names a different industry, or is outside the programme's coverage (most of agriculture, rail, postal and public administration are). A figure is attached only where both the code and the title agree.

02

How businesses here compete

The structural profile of subsector 221, which every industry beneath it inherits. This is analyst judgment from how the subsector is organised — not research into this industry, and not a measurement.

regional competitionhigh capitalUNVERIFIEDinherited from 221 Utilities

Regulated monopoly or near it. The openings are at the edge — independent generation, water and wastewater operations, services sold to utilities.

Who sets the price
Regulators, through rate cases; merchant generators take the pool price.
The software it runs on
Billing and customer information systems, metering, outage and asset management — long procurement cycles, few vendors.
03

Market screens and studies

Market-entry records filed along this branch of the hierarchy. A record at or beneath this code is about this industry; one above it is about something wider that contains it.

No operating-business record sits in this industry — the record filed here is a software market, shown in the next section.

04

Software serving this industry

The vertical software markets filed along the same branch — who sells to these businesses and who they would have to displace — and then the generic categories every business buys whatever it does.

Vertical softwareScreened
Renewable Energy & Solar Project SoftwareOne thing must be true
binding constraint: incumbent vulnerability
Incumbent Aurora Solar (installer design and proposals, incl. HelioScope); Power Factors (Vista) owns utility-scale asset management

Renewable-project software is not one market but four layers, and every layer already has a funded owner. The customer is the solar, wind and storage developer or independent power producer (this NAICS); the residential and commercial design layer also sells to solar installers, who sit in 238220/238210. Installer design and proposal is owned by Aurora Solar. Aurora raised a $250M Series C led by Coatue in May 2021 at a $2B valuation and a $200M Series D co-led by Coatue and Energize Ventures in February 2022 — more than $520M in total [B: Canary Media; Aurora's own release] — and bought HelioScope's developer Folsom Labs for the commercial tier in 2021 [B]. The challenge comes from two directions a newcomer cannot copy cheaply: OpenSolar gives the software away (free to installers, earning from finance and partners; US$20M from Titanium Ventures and Google in October 2025, 28,000+ pros claimed) [B; C], and Enphase owns Solargraf, using it to pull installers toward its hardware [B]. Enerflo sits beside them as the sales-and-install operating system for residential solar sales organisations [C]. Utility-scale design has consolidated. PVcase took a $100M Series B in 2023 (Highland Europe, Energize) [B]; RatedPower went to Enverus in 2022 [B]; Terabase raised $130M led by SoftBank in March 2025 ($200M total) to tie design (PlantPredict) to construction software and robotic assembly [B]. Operations and asset management is the most locked-in layer and the most concentrated. Power Factors has been Vista-owned since 2021, rolled up Greenbyte and 3megawatt, and says it now covers 310 GW; Mubadala bought a minority stake in May 2026 [B]. Raptor Maps ($35M Series C, December 2024) owns drone inspection and the solar digital twin [B], with Zeitview and SenseHawk alongside. Development, diligence and finance workflow is the open layer — and it is filling. Euclid raised a $20M Series A led by Venrock in September 2025 and claims 12 GW onboarded [B; C]; Odyssey raised $74M of equity and debt in September 2026 for emerging-market distributed solar, where it is the platform Nigeria's DARES programme mandates [B]; Paces sells siting and permitting data; Frigg matches small projects with investors on grant-stage funding [C]. Incumbent vulnerability decides it. The installer tier has a $520M-funded leader under price attack from a free product and a hardware maker; utility-scale design and asset management are owned by a SoftBank-, Highland- and Vista-backed set; and the development-workflow gap that looked open in 2023 now has Venrock and development-finance money in it. Market size and vendor revenue UNVERIFIED — every vendor is private or inside a parent. How this differs from its neighbours: 221121 (grid interconnection and large-load power) is queue and site intelligence sold to data-centre and large-load developers, where Enverus/Pearl Street lead; 2211 covers utility metering, billing and customer systems; the 541620 records cover carbon, ESG and efficiency reporting. This record is the project software that designs, sells, builds, finances and operates the generating asset itself.

NAICS 22111913 vendors namedOpen →

Sold across the wider branch

05

Companies in this industry · 17

Every company this research names that is filed here or beneath — the operators, and the vendors that sell to them — largest disclosed revenue first. The rank is within the company’s own six-digit industry.

CompanyFiled underRevenueRank
AnzaPrivateOther electric power generation221119—1/17
Aurora SolarPrivateOther electric power generation221119—2/17
EnerfloPrivateOther electric power generation221119—3/17
EuclidPrivateOther electric power generation221119—4/17
FriggPrivateOther electric power generation221119—5/17
HelioScope by AuroraPrivateOther electric power generation221119—6/17
Odyssey Energy SolutionsPrivateOther electric power generation221119—7/17
OpenSolarPrivateOther electric power generation221119—8/17
PacesPrivateOther electric power generation221119—9/17
Power FactorsPrivateOther electric power generation221119—10/17
PVcasePrivateOther electric power generation221119—11/17
Raptor MapsPrivateOther electric power generation221119—12/17
RatedPowerPrivateOther electric power generation221119—13/17
SenseHawkPrivateOther electric power generation221119—14/17
SolargrafPrivateOther electric power generation221119—15/17

And 2 more on the companies page.

06

Who works here

The occupations employed in Utilities, most concentrated in it first. The share is measured against the whole sector, not this industry — the published cross-tabulation stops there.

Concentrated in this sectorA

These jobs are mostly done here. An operator in this industry is competing for them against others in the same industry, not against the whole economy.

And the jobs every business has

Found across at least fourteen of the twenty sectors. But note the shape of this industry: 73% of establishments have fewer than ten employees, and at that size most of these roles are one person wearing several hats, or bought in from outside.

All 162 occupations →

07

Alongside this industry

This is the most specific level NAICS defines. The other industries under 22111 are its nearest neighbours.

CodeIndustryEstablishments · CAWhat is known
221111Hydro-electric power generation168screened at 22111
221112Fossil-fuel electric power generation85screened at 22111
221113Nuclear electric power generation9screened at 22111