Summary Report of Energy Use
in the Canadian Manufacturing
Sector, 1995-2010

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1. Foreword

Every year, Statistics Canada conducts the Industrial Consumption of Energy (ICE) survey,¹ which collects energy use data from establishments² in Canada’s Manufacturing sector.³ The ICE survey is currently co-sponsored by the Office of Energy Efficiency (OEE) of Natural Resources Canada and Environment Canada. The survey is an essential tool for monitoring the evolution of energy consumption by manufacturing industries and helps to fulfill part of the OEE’s mandate to strengthen and expand Canada’s commitment to energy conservation and energy efficiency.

To learn more about this survey, consult Statistics Canada’s Web site at www.statcan.gc.ca/cgi-bin/imdb/p2SV.pl?Function=getSurvey&SDDS=5047&lang=en&db=imdb&adm=8&dis=2.

This report examines energy consumption patterns for the Canadian Manufacturing sector using the results of the 2010 ICE survey. The estimates are based on the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) and include all 21 subsectors of the Manufacturing sector (NAICS 31 to 33).⁴

Contents of this report

This report is structured as follows:

• Chapter 2, the executive summary, provides key findings of the 2010 ICE survey and compares energy consumption, gross domestic product and energy intensity of the Manufacturing sector and the seven most energy-consuming subsectors from 1995 to 2010.
  
  
• Chapter 3 discusses other industrial energy data and sources, along with factors influencing industrial energy demand.
  
  
• Chapter 4 takes a closer look at energy consumption and energy intensity for the Manufacturing sector as a whole, as well as for the seven most energy-consuming subsectors. In addition, it compares energy sources used in the sector from 1995 to 2010.
  
  
• Chapter 5 provides information on each of the seven selected subsectors, including energy consumption, output and energy intensity trends, comparison of capacity utilization rates among the sector and subsectors, trends by industry and energy sources used by each subsector.
  
  
• Chapter 6 provides conclusions about the analysis of the findings.
  
  
• Appendix A provides detailed tables to support the charts and figures.
  
  
• Appendix B is a glossary of key terms.
  
  
• Appendix C discusses the North American Industry Classification System.
  
  
• Appendix D describes the methodology employed by the ICE survey.

Figure 1 illustrates how Canada’s secondary energy consumption⁵ by the residential, agricultural, commercial/institutional, industrial and transportation sectors was distributed in 2009. Total energy use by the industrial sector accounted for 37.1 percent of the total secondary energy use in Canada. The Manufacturing industries accounted for the largest share of energy in the industrial sector (67.8 percent).

Figure 1. Canada’s secondary energy consumption by sector, 2009

Source: Natural Resources Canada (2012), Energy Efficiency Trends in Canada, Trends for 1990–2009.

This report was prepared by Diane Friendly, of the Demand Policy and Analysis Division of the OEE. Samuel Blais was the project manager, and overall direction was provided by Andrew Kormylo. An electronic version of this report is available at oee.nrcan.gc.ca/statistics/publications.

For more information on this report or on the OEE’s services, contact

Office of Energy Efficiency
Natural Resources Canada
580 Booth Street, 18th Floor
Ottawa ON K1A 0E4
E-mail
Web site: oee.nrcan.gc.ca

Note to readers: Statistics Canada regularly revises the ICE survey estimates to improve their quality. Therefore, some of the results in this report may differ slightly from previous versions. Due to rounding, the numbers in this summary report may not add up to the totals shown in the tables or to 100 percent, where applicable.

¹ Although entitled the Industrial Consumption of Energy survey, data published from the ICE survey does not cover the entire Industrial sector, but rather the Manufacturing portion only. In fact, mining (including oil and gas extraction), forestry and construction are not included in the ICE survey estimates, because several other data initiatives already gather information on these sectors.
² See Appendix B, Glossary, for a more in-depth description.
³ See Appendix C, North American Industry Classification System.
⁴ See Appendix B, Glossary, for a definition and Appendix C, North American Industry Classification System, for details.
⁵ The energy used by final consumers in various sectors of the economy.

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