Average household energy consumption falls in 2019
Canadian households consumed 1.4 million terajoules of energy in their homes in 2019, a pattern similar to the energy consumption in 2015. On average, the amount of energy consumed per household edged down from 92.5 gigajoules in 2015 to 90.5 gigajoules in 2019. Households in Alberta (124.6 gigajoules), Saskatchewan (120.5 gigajoules), Manitoba (115.7 gigajoules) and Ontario (94.8 gigajoules) reported higher-than-average energy consumption per household, whereas households in the remaining provinces reported lower-than-average energy consumption per household.
Of the total energy consumed by Canadian households in 2019, natural gas accounted for 53.4%, electricity for 43.9% and heating oil for 2.7%, similar to the energy consumption patterns in 2015.
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