Access the report, Canada's Energy Future: Scenarios for Supply and Demand to 2025, which addresses forces, uncertainties and key issues affecting energy supply and demand in Canada.

Discover the ways that biomass, plant material that is the product of photosynthesis, can be used as a fuel to supply heat and electricity.

Link to information about the upstream petroleum industry, which includes all activities that find, produce, and process oil and natural gas, including the treatment of liquid petroleum gas, condensates, crude oil, heavy oil, and crude bitumen.

Learn about the electricity industry, including activities that involve the production, transmission and distribution of electricity, through methods such as thermal, hydro, nuclear and wind generation.

Learn how electricity has become a cornerstone of the Canadian economy and Canadian life.

Access information about the Electricity Resources Branch, organized into three divisions that all interface with the electricity sector in Canada.

Read about a clean source of renewable energy: a process called anaerobic digestion that extracts methane from materials like animal waste, industrial pulp or landfill sites.

Uses studies on the west coast of Vancouver Island as an example.

Discover how hydroelectric power, the principal source of electricity in Canada, is produced by the force of falling water.

Find information about manure, including environmental issues, manure treatment and odour management.

Read about the Natural Gas Division, which provides expert technical, regulatory, policy and economic information and advice on natural gas issues to the Minister of Natural Resources and the federal government to ensure the Canadian public interest.

Access information on the Oil Division, which provides expert policy advice to the Minister of Natural Resources, and others in the Government of Canada, on matters affecting Canada's oil economy.

Access a helpful summary of renewable energy information, sorted by type of renewable energy - wind, solar, bioenergy, small-scale hydro, geothermal and ocean - and also by companies involved in the industry.

Discover three lesson plans aimed at the secondary level: Energy from Wind and Moving Water, Cold Traps, and Monitoring the Atmosphere.

Read about the Energy Sector's role concerning Canada's energy resources – to support good public policy decision-making and regulation of Canada's energy industries.

Find out how this initiative stimulates sustainable economic development across Canada by increasing the level and effectiveness of private sector exploration for energy and mineral resources.

Read about a program created to reduce greenhouse gas emissions produced by livestock.

Learn about biodiesel, an alternative to diesel fuel that is made from vegetable oils, waste oils or animal fats. It combusts better than conventional diesel and produces fewer greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change.

Find information about ethanol. When processed from its liquid form into fuel ethanol, it burns more completely than gasoline, reducing greenhouse gas emissions.