From Ralph Torrie: Visualizing Canada’s Energy Systems
Unlike the USA, Canada does not have an Energy Information Administration, and the data sources we do have (Statistics Canada, National Energy Board, Natural Resources Canada, Environment Canada) are incomplete and disconnected.
To fulfill this need, CESARNET.ca has been working with whatIf? Technologies Inc, an Ottawa based computer modeling company to integrate all these data sources into a new version (V6) of their Canadian Energy Systems Simulator (CanESS) model.
Which ends up with charts that look like this:
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Better yet, you can customize charts to find out how, for instance, B.C.’s per capita energy consumption for personal transportation, which looks like this …
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… compares to our per-capita greenhouse-gas emissions for personal transportation:
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So how come B.C.’s energy-use per capita is the lowest, but our greenhouse-gas emissions are in the middle?
Make your own charts here.
“So how come B.C.’s energy-use per capita is the lowest, but our greenhouse-gas emissions are in the middle?”
Because the lower chart is total GHGs, not per capita, and BC has a much larger population than the 6 provinces that rank below it.
Transportation GHGs per capita. BC is the lowest.
http://www.cesarnet.ca/visualization/end-use-sectors-energy-use-and-greenhouse-gas-emissions-canada-and-its-provinces?sector=trans&scope=ghgcap&scale=provinces#main-content
Residential GHGs per capita. BC is second lowest.
http://www.cesarnet.ca/visualization/end-use-sectors-energy-use-and-greenhouse-gas-emissions-canada-and-its-provinces?sector=res&scope=ghgcap&scale=provinces#main-content
Total per capita number 4 although not that far behind.
http://www.cesarnet.ca/visualization/end-use-sectors-energy-use-and-greenhouse-gas-emissions-canada-and-its-provinces?sector=all&scope=ghgcap&scale=provinces#main-content