Table 8
Energy indicators

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Energy indicators
  2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Primary energy availability (terajoules) 11,527,500 11,307,113 11,176,879 11,969,050 11,545,145 ..
Primary and secondary energy  
Exports (terajoules) 9,810,695 9,641,137 9,833,549 10,308,635 10,186,895 ..
Residential consumption (terajoules) 1,313,015 1,296,644 1,243,425 1,336,452 1,360,303 ..
Established reserve  
Crude bitumen (closing stock, 1 millions of cubic metres) 1,660 1,620 3,340 3,500 4,300 4,220
Crude oil (closing stock, 1 millions of cubic metres) 603.8 752.3 712.6 721.8 688.8 ..
Natural gas (closing stock, 1 billions of cubic metres) 1,497.5 1,553.7 1,577.7 1,534.3 1,671.2 ..
Recoverable reserves  
Coal (closing stock, 1 millions of tonnes) 4,666.3 4,560.4 4,468.8 4,395.1 4,331.5 ..
Uranium (closing stock, 1 tonnes) 444,000 431,000 423,400 482,000 447,000 ..
Electricity generation  
Total (megawatt hours) 571,291,905 597,810,875 585,097,531 603,572,420 601,719,256 574,623,534
Hydro-electric (percent of total) 58.7 60.1 60.0 60.6 62.0 63.2
Nuclear (percent of total) 14.9 14.5 15.8 14.6 14.7 14.8
Fossil fuel and other fuel combustion (percent of total) 26.4 25.4 24.2 24.8 23.3 22.0
1.
The size of the reserve at year-end.
Note(s):
For 2003 data, see: Statistics Canada, 2010, EnviroStats , Vol. 4 no.1, Catalogue no. 16-002-X. For 2002 data, see: Statistics Canada, 2009, EnviroStats, Vol. 3 no.1, Catalogue no. 16-002-X.
Source(s):
Statistics Canada, CANSIM tables 128-0009, 153-0012, 153-0013, 153-0014, 153-0017, 153-0018, 153-0019, 127-0001 and 127-0002 (accessed November 9, 2010).
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