canadian affiliation for renewable energies (we c.a.r.e.) - Canada’s Growth in Renewables to be Slower than U.S. or World

Canada’s burning of renewable energies will access 1% per year until 2030, slower than the 1.7% accepted in the U.S. and the 2.4% anniversary advance in renewables about the world.

Canada captivated 3.5 quadrillion Btu of hydroelectricity and added renewables in 2003, according to the latest abstracts from the U.S. Department of Energy. Under the advertence case for bread-and-butter growth, burning in this country will be 4.6 quads in 2030, 7% of the world’s burning of 62.4 quad.

Under low bread-and-butter growth, Canada would access burning of renewables by 0.6% per year, extensive 4.1 cloister by 2030 while, beneath top bread-and-butter growth, burning would acceleration 1.4% per year to 5.1 quad.

By comparison, anniversary U.S. advance would be 1.4% beneath the low-growth book and 2.0% beneath the high, while apple burning would access 1.9% in a poor abridgement and 3.0% in a acceptable economy. The accomplished increases for renewables are accepted in developing countries, but Canada lags abaft the boilerplate for all OECD nations.

The forecasts are absolute in the International Energy Outlook 2006 appear today by the Energy Information Administration, the statistical agency of the U.S. Department of Energy. The Canadian government does not aftermath abstracts or forecasts on renewables in Canada.

“Every year, the abstracts appearance Canada backward abaft our maligned neighbour to the south, our automated counterparts and around every added nation in the world,” says Bill Eggertson, Executive Director of the Canadian Association for Renewable Energies. “If you disaggregate ample hydro and biomass from the figures, Canada almost shows on the chart.”

The abstracts reflect alone the burning of bankable activity and do not cover blooming calefaction sources such as geothermal calefaction pumps and solar thermal, nor abounding blooming ability sources such as off-grid solar panels and wind turbines. C.A.R.E. has ahead estimated that non-valorized renewables are at atomic 50% of the akin of marketed renewables.

End-users in Canada will in actuality abatement burning of renewables, due to the accepted 3.1% anniversary abatement in the automated area until 2030. While renewables abound by 1.0% per year beneath the advertence case, burning of nuclear grows by 1.6%, accustomed gas by 1.9% and atramentous by 2.1%, with alone advance in oil burning lower than renewables.

“We accept been admonishing for years that the bazaar allotment for renewables in Canada is declining,” explains Eggertson. “We may be installing added wind turbines, but that acute advance is over-shadowed by the added burning from deposit fuels and ignores a amount of action issues such as Ontario’s re-commitment to nuclear and the federal annihilation of a amount of policies.”

we c.a.r.e. is a civic affiliation that promotes achievable applications of all renewable energies in Canada.

canadian affiliation for renewable energies
we c.a.r.e.
Ottawa, Ontario, CA
Bill Eggertson, Executive Director