Energy Sources
What Kind Of Energy Does Your Company Work With?
Canada is a resource-rich country with a unique mix of energy sources. While we have an abundance of oil and natural gas, much of the energy is also generated from: hydroelectricity, coal, nuclear power, and renewable resources.
It does not matter what energy source your company works with, information can be used to empower and improve your data stream.
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Oil
Oil is used to create transportation fuels such as gasoline, diesel and jet fuel. It’s also used for heating, and as a feedstock for petrochemicals.
02.
Natural Gas
In addition to heating and cooking, natural gas has a variety of uses including transportation and electricity generation.
03.
Coal
The combustion of coal is used to convert water into high-pressure steam, which drives a turbine, which produces electricity.
04.
Hidropower
Hydro is the largest source of electricity generation in Canada; most of it is is produced when water is stored behind a dam.
05.
Nuclear
There are four active nuclear power plants in Canada, which in 2017 generated about 15% of the electricity need of the country.
06.
Wind
Wind power capacity is forecast to continue growing due to increased interest from electricity producers and government initiatives.
07.
Solar
Solar technologies use the sun’s energy to heat homes and water and generate electricity. A popular renewable source.
08.
Geothermal
Geothermal energy can be captured from the heat stored beneath the earth’s surface.
09.
Biomass and Biofuels
Biomass is a biological material that has stored sunlight as a chemical energy. Biofuels derived from renewable sources are a growing form of energy.
01.
Oil
For the oil industry, we could do data analysis of its products like refinery gas, ethane, LPG, aviation gasoline, motor gasoline, jet fuels, kerosene, gas/diesel oil, fuel oil, naphtha, white spirit, lubricants, bitumen, paraffin waxes, petroleum coke and other.
02.
Natural Gas
For the natural gas industry, we could do data analysis of its production (dry marketable production within national boundaries, including offshore production), consumption, imports, exports, extraction, pipeline systems and processing plants.
03.
Coal
For the coal industry, we could do data analysis of its products like hard coal, brown coal, anthracite, coking coal, other bituminous coal, sub-bituminous coal, lignite, patent fuel, coke oven coke, gas coke, coal tar, BKB, gas works gas, coke oven gas, blast furnace gas and other recovered gases.
04.
Hidropower
For the hydropower industry, we could do data analysis of its production, consumption, imports, exports, plants information, equipment such as turbines and generators and electricity generation. Or we could focus data analysis on the mechanical energy derived from tidal movement, wave motion or ocean current and exploited for electricity generation.
05.
Nuclear
For the nuclear industry, we could do data analysis of its production, consumption, plants/reactors information, capacity availability, frequency control, safety regulations, waste disposal and emissions (considering small modular reactors as sources of electricity, heat and hydrogen).
06.
Wind
For the wind industry, we could do data analysis of its production, consumption, total energy supply, kinetic energy of wind exploited for electricity generation, wind turbines, offshore wind capacity, onshore wind capacity, systems and markets.
07.
Solar
For the solar industry, we could do data analysis of its production, consumption, total energy supply, solar photovoltaics (electricity from photovoltaic cells), solar thermal (solar radiation exploited for hot water production and electricity generation), usage of flat plate collectors or information about solar thermal-electric plants.
08.
Geothermal
For the geothermal industry, we could do data analysis of its production, consumption, total energy supply, power generation (for example electricity generation using dry stream or high enthalpy brine after flashing) or capacity.
09.
Biomass and Biofuels
For the biomass and biofuels industry, we could do data analysis of its products like primary solid biofuels (firewood, wood chips, bark, sawdust, shavings, chips, sulphite lyes also known as black liquor, animal materials/wastes and others), biogases, bio gasoline, biodiesels, bio jet kerosene, other liquid biofuels and charcoal.