Canada’s progressive shift to renewable energy sources
Introduction
Canada among other countries made a huge progress in diversifying energy supply. Us – Human beings – are very dependent on energy in our daily activities. The use of energy isn’t limited to heating our homes, communication and transportation, but also in our daily food supply. While we are dependent on the use of energy, it is arguably a major factor in the destruction of the worlds life support system that leads to climate change and other environmental disasters, safety concerns and health problems. Without introducing sustainable energy these effects will keep getting worse and threaten our future generation (Blanchard, P). The publics’ interest in renewable energy grew …show more content…
Since we are not at risk of depletion from the use of these available resources, a modern technology has been developed to use these resources in order to produce energy. Canada has a large landmass, diversified geography and plenty of resources that can be used to produce energy (Natural Resources Canada, 2016). With Canada being the 6th largest consumer of electricity in the world they had to resort to renewable energy which will help not affect the future generations. The total renewable energy supply such as hydroelectricity, bioenergy, wind power, solar energy, geothermal energy and ocean energy accounts for 18.9% of the total primary energy supply in Canada (Perlman, 2016). Hydroelectricity is the largest renewable energy source in Canada, this is because of all the available rivers flowing from the mountains down to the oceans surrounding Canada to make a total of 542 hydroelectric stations that supply 78,359 MW to the grid. This puts Canada in second after China as the largest producer of hydroelectricity. These stations are in Quebec, Ontario, British Colombia, Newfoundland and Labrador and Manitoba because of the geography and hydrography were …show more content…
Canadas large landmass, diversified geography and plenty of resources that are used to produce energy helped shape Canada as a global leader in clean energy. it’s market value was $1.5 trillion in 2014 and is expected to reach $5.2 trillion by 2022 (Government of Canada, 2016). Currently, 18.9% of the energy used in Canada comes from renewable energy sources such as hydroelectricity which accounts 63% of the net generation in Canada, biomass wind and solar. Wind and solar are the fastest growing energy production in Canada, with solar climbing 47% to reach $2.8 billion in investments. Meanwhile, wind energy capacity meets 1.9% of Canada’s total electricity in 2013 (Government of Canada, 2016). The federal, provincial and territorial combined efforts impacted the growth and support, energy trade, improving and ensuring sustainability of our electricity systems. Canada’s effort in transitioning to a lower carbon future will bring major changes and opportunities to the Canadian and global energy
Introduction
Canada among other countries made a huge progress in diversifying energy supply. Us – Human beings – are very dependent on energy in our daily activities. The use of energy isn’t limited to heating our homes, communication and transportation, but also in our daily food supply. While we are dependent on the use of energy, it is arguably a major factor in the destruction of the worlds life support system that leads to climate change and other environmental disasters, safety concerns and health problems. Without introducing sustainable energy these effects will keep getting worse and threaten our future generation (Blanchard, P). The publics’ interest in renewable energy grew …show more content…
Since we are not at risk of depletion from the use of these available resources, a modern technology has been developed to use these resources in order to produce energy. Canada has a large landmass, diversified geography and plenty of resources that can be used to produce energy (Natural Resources Canada, 2016). With Canada being the 6th largest consumer of electricity in the world they had to resort to renewable energy which will help not affect the future generations. The total renewable energy supply such as hydroelectricity, bioenergy, wind power, solar energy, geothermal energy and ocean energy accounts for 18.9% of the total primary energy supply in Canada (Perlman, 2016). Hydroelectricity is the largest renewable energy source in Canada, this is because of all the available rivers flowing from the mountains down to the oceans surrounding Canada to make a total of 542 hydroelectric stations that supply 78,359 MW to the grid. This puts Canada in second after China as the largest producer of hydroelectricity. These stations are in Quebec, Ontario, British Colombia, Newfoundland and Labrador and Manitoba because of the geography and hydrography were …show more content…
Canadas large landmass, diversified geography and plenty of resources that are used to produce energy helped shape Canada as a global leader in clean energy. it’s market value was $1.5 trillion in 2014 and is expected to reach $5.2 trillion by 2022 (Government of Canada, 2016). Currently, 18.9% of the energy used in Canada comes from renewable energy sources such as hydroelectricity which accounts 63% of the net generation in Canada, biomass wind and solar. Wind and solar are the fastest growing energy production in Canada, with solar climbing 47% to reach $2.8 billion in investments. Meanwhile, wind energy capacity meets 1.9% of Canada’s total electricity in 2013 (Government of Canada, 2016). The federal, provincial and territorial combined efforts impacted the growth and support, energy trade, improving and ensuring sustainability of our electricity systems. Canada’s effort in transitioning to a lower carbon future will bring major changes and opportunities to the Canadian and global energy