This account describes the annual use of energy products by industry, governments, institutions and households. It covers the following energy sources: coal, natural gas, motor gasoline, diesel, aviation fuel, light fuel oil (including kerosene), heavy fuel oil, refinery fuel gas, coke oven gas, liquefied petroleum gases (including natural gas liquids), electricity, coke, steam, wood, and spent pulping liquor. The unit of measure is terajoules. Only uses of energy products for their energy content are published – the use of energy products as material inputs is not included in the energy use account (e.g. oil products used to produce plastics) but is available on request.
In general, energy surveys provide the data for large energy consumers. Where consumption data in physical units is not available, estimates are made based on expenditure data in the Input-Output Accounts.
Statistics Canada’s Report on Energy Supply-Demand in Canada (RESD) provides the control totals for the consumption of the fuel types. It also provides the basic data for producer consumption and non-energy use of fuels. Statistics Canada’s Industrial Consumption of Energy Survey provides detailed fuel consumption data for the manufacturing industries. This is combined with the RESD data to yield the estimates for manufacturing industries.
Data for mining, oil and gas extraction are benchmarked to the RESD totals with additional data added for energy transformation and producer consumption. Detailed fuel consumption data for the mining industries are taken from the Census of Mines produced by Natural Resources Canada.
Data for agriculture and construction are taken directly from the RESD and distributed across the various sub-industries according to the fuel expenditure data contained in the Input-Output Accounts.
Transportation surveys provide fuel consumption data for airlines. This covers international use of aviation fuel by Canadian carriers in accordance with SEEA guidelines. Transportation surveys also provide fuel consumption data for rail and passenger bus and urban transit industries.
Motor gasoline and diesel purchases are benchmarked to the RESD but are distributed across industries according to expenditure data in the provincial Input-Output Accounts. The use of provincial accounts controls for price variations across provinces. This is done to distribute retail pump sales which are not disaggregated by purchasing industry in the RESD and for which detailed physical consumption data by industry do not exist.
Data for household use of energy is taken directly from the RESD residential category, except for motor gasoline and diesel consumption, which is part of the retail pump sales distribution above.
Consumption of wood and spent pulping liquor is taken directly from the Industrial Consumption of Energy Survey.