Electric power statistics, February 2014
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Released: 2014-04-25
Electric power generation in Canada was up 2.9% from February 2013 to 54.9 million megawatt hours (MWh) in February. Hydro power, the predominant type of generation, led the increase, rising 4.1% to 36.5 million MWh.
Canada consumed 5.5% more electricity compared with February 2013, using 52.3 million MWh in February. Electricity generation by utilities was up 3.3% to 51.5 million MWh, while generation by industries declined 3.5% to 3.4 million MWh.
Chart 1
Electricity generation
Provincially, Quebec posted the largest gain in electric power generation, up 12.3% from February 2013 to 21.7 million MWh. Quebec's hydro generation rose 12.2% to 21.6 million MWh.
In New Brunswick, significant increases in steam (+31.6%) and combustion turbine generation (+12.2%) pushed generation up 9.6% to 1.4 million MWh.
Electric power generation in Ontario was down 1.1% in February compared with the same month a year earlier. Several factors contributed to the decline, including lower gains in hydro generation (+7.4%), decreases in internal combustion generation (-61.2%) as well as the continued decline in steam generation (-50.8%). Slightly offsetting the overall decrease in Ontario was nuclear generation, which was up 4.1%.
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Electricity generation by type
Total imports of electricity from the United States were up 59.4% from the same month in 2013 to 1.3 million MWh in February. British Columbia continued to lead the way, importing 576,782 MWh, up 14.7%.
Conversely, electricity exports to the United States were down 15.7% from February 2013 to 3.8 million MWh in February. More than half of the exports were from Quebec, which sent 1.9 million MWh to the United States, down 4.1%.
Note to readers
Data from February 2013 to January 2014 have been revised.
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