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Canada’s installed biomass power capacity
According to Pollution Probe, Canada has more than 1,600 megawatts of installed biomass power capacity. Most of this capacity is concentrated in the forestry and pulp and paper industries. Another 85 megawatts uses biogas from municipal landfill sites.
Renewable generation capacity by province
Province/
Territory |
Electrical Capacity (kW) |
Per
Cent
Total |
| Hydro |
Wind |
Biomass |
Biogas |
Solid
Waste |
Solar
PV |
Tidal |
Total |
| Alberta |
843,750 |
94,350 |
201,500 |
|
|
16 |
|
1,139,616 |
1.63 |
British
Columbia |
11,629,742 |
|
710,750 |
4,050 |
|
15 |
|
12,344,557 |
17.68 |
| Manitoba |
5,004,420 |
|
22,800 |
|
|
|
|
5,027,220 |
7.20 |
New
Brunswick |
907,090 |
|
182,912 |
|
|
|
|
1,090,002 |
1.56 |
Newfoundland
& Labrador |
6,866,398 |
|
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6,866,398 |
1.56 |
Nova
Scotia |
399,300 |
1,200 |
54,200 |
|
|
10 |
3,700 |
458,410 |
0.66 |
Northwest
Territories |
58,630 |
|
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58,630 |
0.08 |
| Nunavut |
|
360 |
|
|
|
3 |
|
363 |
<0.01 |
| Ontario |
8,150,202 |
13,050 |
445,820 |
9,300 |
25,400 |
186 |
|
8,643,958 |
12.38 |
Prince Edward
Island |
|
5,280 |
2,000 |
|
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|
7,280 |
0.01 |
| Québec |
32,844,926 |
102,060 |
270,400* |
4,000* |
|
30 |
|
33,221,416 |
47.59 |
| Saskatchewan |
835,860 |
17,100 |
21,000 |
|
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5 |
|
873,965 |
1.25 |
| Yukon |
76,300 |
811 |
|
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3 |
|
77,114 |
0.11 |
Total
Resource |
67,616,618 |
234,211 |
1,911,382 |
17,350 |
25,400 |
268 |
3,700 |
69,808,929 |
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Percent
of Total |
96.86 |
0.34 |
2.74 |
0.02 |
0.04 |
<0.01 |
0.01 |
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* according to L’énergie au Québec 2002, 160,300 kW of biomass and 30,500 kW of biogas capacity existed in the province in 2000, see www.mrn.gouv.qc.ca/energie/energie/energieportrait.jsp
Source: Canadian Industrial End-Use Energy Data Analysis Centre, Simon Fraser University
 
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