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Energy Use Data Handbook,
1990 to 2008
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Chapter 4 – Industrial Sector
The Data Situation
The aggregate energy use data presented for the industrial sector are taken from Statistics Canada’s Report on Energy Supply-Demand in Canada (RESD)
(Cat. No. 57-003-X). The RESD contains data derived primarily from Statistics Canada surveys of energy distributors and end-users as well as administrative records received by Statistics Canada. Such data are then supplemented with data from the National Energy Board and various energy-producing provinces. The major energy survey used for the industrial sector is the Industrial Consumption of Energy (ICE)¹ survey
(Cat. No. 57-505-X).
To provide more detail about the industrial end-use energy trends over time, the Office of Energy Efficiency (OEE) developed the Industrial End-Use Model (IEUM). The detailed energy use data presented in the IEUM are taken from the ICE survey for 1990 and from 1995 and beyond. Data for 1991 to 1994 are from the Canadian Industrial End-Use Energy Data and Analysis Centre’s (CIEEDAC’s) report Energy Intensity Indicators for Canadian Industry 1990–2008. OEE also updates its energy end-use database by including energy consumption data from the Annual Census of Mines and other industry associations.
Informetrica Limited has provided physical units, gross domestic product (GDP) and gross output (GO) data, and prediction in physical units (where applicable). Energy intensities for pulp mills and iron and steel are now reported on a GO basis.
Industrial oil and natural gas prices are a weighted average of regional prices taken from the Petroleum Resources Branch of Natural Resources Canada and Statistics Canada’s Energy Statistics Handbook (Cat. No. 57-601-X), respectively. Electricity prices are a weighted average of the data found in Hydro-Québec’s Comparison of Electricity Prices in Major North American Cities.
¹ From 1991 to 1994, not all of the 49 industries are available because of the conversion to the North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) in 2001.
