Reviewed by Malcolm Osei - 28 September 2026
The licence Energy Casino actually holds
Energy Casino is operated by Probe Investments Limited under a Malta Gaming Authority licence, MGA/B2C/224/2012, independently confirmed by AskGamblers. That licence is not an Ontario iGaming Ontario registration, and this page is informational only - it explains the regulatory distinction rather than making a claim about how the site technically handles Ontario visitors, which we have not tested.
What Ontario's regulated market requires
Ontario, through the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario and its subsidiary iGaming Ontario, runs a regulated, competitive online gambling market. Only operators registered with iGaming Ontario may legally offer or advertise real-money online casino and sports betting to Ontario residents. That's a different model from most of the rest of Canada, where provinces generally don't run a comparable closed registry and offshore-licensed sites operate without an equivalent framework.
Why this sits outside Ontario's regulated market
An MGA licence, on its own, does not carry iGaming Ontario registration - the two are separate regulatory systems entirely. Energy Casino's own materials describe an MGA-licensed offshore operation; nothing in what we reviewed indicates iGaming Ontario registration. On that basis, this brand sits outside Ontario's regulated market rather than inside it. We are not making a claim here about exact geofencing or blocking mechanics, since we have not verified how the site technically treats visitors from Ontario.
What this means in practice for an Ontario reader
We are not stating that visiting or using Energy Casino from Ontario is illegal, and we are not offering a legal determination for individual readers - that depends on rules and enforcement questions outside the scope of a casino review. What we can say plainly is narrower: this operator holds an MGA licence, not an iGaming Ontario registration, and Ontario's framework exists specifically so residents can check that distinction before depositing anywhere.
Trust signals worth knowing regardless of province
Independent scores diverge: AskGamblers rates Energy Casino 8.4/10, CasinoCanada gives 6.3/10, and Trustpilot is markedly lower at 2.0/5 from 451 reviews, with most of that pattern tied to withdrawal-delay complaints. This is a separate issue from the Ontario registration question, but it is the kind of consumer-protection concern that a regulated framework like iGaming Ontario's is designed to address.
If you're outside Ontario
Ontario's regulated-market model doesn't apply the same way elsewhere in Canada. Our Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba and Quebec pages cover how the MGA licence applies in provinces without a comparable closed registry. General account questions are answered in FAQ.