Energy Use Data Handbook, 1990 and 1997 to 2003
Chapter 4 – Industrial Sector
The Data Situation
The aggregate energy use data presented for the industrial sector are taken from Statistics Canada's Report on Energy Supply-Demand in Canada (RESD) (Cat.No.57-003-XIB).
RESD data are estimated from a suite of Statistics Canada surveys of energy distributors and end-users. Until 1993, most of the data were estimated from supply sources. This changed with the expansion of the Industrial Consumption of Energy (ICE) survey. The ICE survey sample was increased from 230 respondents in 1993 to approximately 2,000 respondents in 1995. Therefore, as of 1995, data were available for 22 industries at the two-digit Standard Industrial Classification level and for 31 sub-industries at the three- and four-digit level. For the 2001 reporting year, the conversion to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), which added nine industries, combined with an increased sample size to approximatively 2,500 respondents, resulted in the inclusion of 36 new industries into ICE.
To examine industrial end-use energy trends over time, the Office of Energy Efficiency (OEE) asked Statistics Canada to conduct a backcast of approximately 60 NAICS manufacturing industries. In this report we present 40 of these industries, along with 10 non-manufacturing industries (for which we have a complete data set). The backcast was completed for 1990 and for the 1995 to 2000 period. The 1990 data were estimated from a variety of sources including the RESD, ICE and the Annual Survey of Manufactures. However, due to the smaller sample size in years prior to 2001, it is not possible to backcast for all 27 of the new industries that were included in the 2001 expansion of ICE. Although they are not presented here, these industries are part of the OEE's database.
Each year, the Canadian Industrial Energy End-Use Data and Analysis Centre (CIEEDAC) updates its energy end-use database using energy consumption data from the ICE survey. Energy use data from CIEEDAC's database were calibrated to match the RESD energy use data in the OEE's database to produce the data reported here.
For the 1990 to 2003 period, Informetrica Limited has provided physical units, gross domestic product (GDP), and gross output data. Because of the methodology used to calculate GDP, the GDP of industries are not additive (i.e. do not sum to the reported total) in years prior to the 1997 base year.
Industrial oil and natural gas prices are taken from Statistics Canada's Energy Statistics Handbook (Cat. No. 57-601-XIE). Electricity prices are a weighted average of the data found in Hydro-Québec's Comparison of Electricity Prices in Major North American Cities.
View handbook tables.
Due to rounding, the numbers in the tables may not add up or calculate to their reported totals or growth rates.
- Industrial Secondary Energy Use and GHG Emissions by Energy Source
- Industrial Secondary Energy Use by Industry
- Industrial GHG Emissions by Industry – Including Electricity-Related Emissions
- Industrial GHG Emissions by Industry – Excluding Electricity-Related Emissions
- Industrial Gross Domestic Product by Industry
- Industrial Energy Intensity by Industry
- Industrial Energy Prices and Background Indicators
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