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- Ontario, New Brunswick, and NWT rely on a mix that can include nuclear, hydro, wind, biomass, coal, natural gas, and petroleum—although not all provinces or territories use all of them. Alberta, Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia, and Nunavut generate most of their electricity from fossil fuels like natural gas, coal, or petroleum.
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Alberta, Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia, and Nunavut generate most of their electricity from fossil fuels like natural gas, coal, or petroleum. Generation from wind farms and solar photovoltaic panels grew from 1.5% of total electricity generation in 2010 to 7% in 2021.
ES.1 Key Points. In 2022, Canada’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions were 708 megatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (Mt CO 2 eq), a decrease of 54 Mt (7.1%) from 2005, the base year for Canada’s 2030 GHG emission reduction target, and an increase of 9.3 Mt (1.3%) from 2021, while remaining 44 Mt (5.9%) below pre-pandemic (2019) emission levels.
- Illustration of the scenarios in EF2023. Description. Description: This figure provides an overview of the three core scenarios in EF2023, including a description of the pace of global climate action and climate action in Canada.
- End-use energy use, by fuel, all scenarios. Click to enlarge. Description. Description: These three stacked area charts show end-use energy use by fuel in each scenario.
- Electricity use by sector, Global Net-zero Scenario. Click to enlarge. Description. Description: This stacked area chart shows projected electricity demand in the Global Net-zero Scenario in the residential, commercial, industrial, transportation, and hydrogen sectors.
- Change in electricity generation from 2021 to 2050, by fuel, Global Net-zero Scenario. Click to enlarge. Description. Description: This column chart shows changes in electricity generation between 2021 and 2050 in the Global Net-zero Scenario, by technology.
Canada is rich in energy supply—including large hydroelectric reservoirs in British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec, hydrocarbon resources in western Canada and offshore of the East Coast, uranium deposits in northern Saskatchewan, and abundant wind and solar potential across the whole country. This wealth of resources ranks Canada in ...
Jul 5, 2023 · Like Alberta, Saskatchewan provides baseload and dispatchable electricity through fossil fuels—in Saskatchewan’s case, a mix of natural gas and coal. Although the province has seen a recent surge in wind and solar development, future growth will eventually bump up against reliability issues.
A report from the Canada Energy Regulator shows that Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba will become increasingly reliant on renewable energy sources like wind and solar power.
In each net-zero electricity scenario, the ten provinces meet their electricity demands in diverse ways, with widely varying mixes of hydro, nuclear, fossil fuel with CCS, wind, solar, hydrogen, and biomass with CCS.
