Description: Clean Power Generation in Canada – Biomass This map is an illustration of Canada’s biomass power generating stations. These stations have been categorised on the basis of their power generation capacity. The threshold for this map is 0.25 MW. This is due to the differences in utilisation rates (such as availability, capacity factor and efficiency) between bioenergy and solar, hydro, wind energy. Bioenergy accounts for approximately 1.4% of Canada’s total electricity supply and about 1.5 per cent of Canada’s total electricity generation capacity. Two of Canada’s largest biomass power generating stations are in Ontario, with a combined capacity of 358 MW of clean electricity. Bioenergy is a renewable energy resource derived from biomass and biomass fuels. The term ‘biomass’ encompasses all organic materials of biological origin and can be sourced from various operations including forestry and arboriculture; agriculture and horticulture; and aquaculture. Biomass fuels can take the form of a liquid such as ethanol and renewable diesel fuels, a gas such as biogas and syngas or a solid such as wood chips and pellets. Bioenergy is an extensive sustainable energy resource for Canada.
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Copyright Text: Natural Resources Canada. Clean Generating Stations (compiled from various public provincial and company information). Ottawa.
Description: Clean Power Generation in Canada – Hydro
This map is an illustration of Canada’s reservoir hydro and run-of-river power generating stations. These stations have been categorised on the basis of their power generation capacity. The threshold for this map is 0.80 MW. Hydroelectric stations have been developed where the geography and hydrography were favourable; provinces producing large quantities of hydroelectricity include Quebec, British Columbia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Manitoba and Ontario. Hydropower provides Canadian households and businesses with a clean, reliable and renewable source of electric power, converting up to 95% of available energy into electricity.
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Copyright Text: Natural Resources Canada. Clean Generating Stations (compiled from various public provincial and company information). Ottawa.
Description: Clean Power Generation in Canada – Nuclear
This map shows the locations of Canada’s nuclear power plants. These stations have been categorized on the basis of their power-generation capacity. All nuclear facilities in Canada are above the 500 MW threshold.
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Copyright Text: Natural Resources Canada. Clean Generating Stations (compiled from various public provincial and company information). Ottawa.
Description: Clean Power Generation in Canada – Solar
This map is an illustration of Canada’s solar energy power generating stations. These stations have been categorised on the basis of their power generation capacity. The threshold for this map is 0.80 MW. Presently, grid connected solar power generation in Canada is carried out primarily in Ontario. Solar energy technology is comprised of thermal and photovoltaic (PV) technologies. Solar photovoltaic technology converts the sun’s rays into electricity. Concentrated PV technology uses optics such as lenses or curved mirrors to concentrate a large amount of sunlight onto a small area of solar photovoltaic (PV) cells or thermal collectors to generate electricity.
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Copyright Text: Natural Resources Canada. Clean Generating Stations (compiled from various public provincial and company information). Ottawa.
Description: Clean Power Generation in Canada – Tidal
This map is an illustration of tidal energy power generating stations in Canada. These stations have been categorised on the basis of their power generation capacity. The threshold for this map is 0.80 MW. Presently, North America’s only tidal barrage energy plant is located at Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, with a generating capacity of 20MW of electricity. There is additional opportunity for large-scale tidal energy projects in Canada. The world’s highest tides occur in the Bay of Fundy. Research and development is underway to capitalise the untapped tidal energy potential in Canada.
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Copyright Text: Natural Resources Canada. Clean Generating Stations (compiled from various public provincial and company information). Ottawa.
Description: Clean Power Generation in Canada – Wind
This map is an illustration of Canada’s wind energy power generating stations. These stations have been categorized on the basis of their generation capacity. The threshold for this map is 0.80 MW. There are wind farms in the ten provinces and the three territories, with Ontario having the largest capacity, followed by Quebec and Alberta.
Canada’s geography makes it ideally suited to capitalize on large amounts of wind energy. Among other applications, wind energy is being used in wind-diesel hybrid power generations systems to reduce reliance on diesel generation used in remote communities, as well as mining.
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Copyright Text: Natural Resources Canada. Clean Generating Stations (compiled from various public provincial and company information). Ottawa.
Description: This map is an illustration of small-scale generation and distributed generation renewable energy projects in Canada. It includes aggregate statistics on small-scale (projects <.8MW for solar, wind and hydro and <.25MW for biomass) and distributed generation projects in each province and territory.
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Copyright Text: Natural Resources Canada. Small-scale and distributed generation (compiled from various public provincial and company information). Ottawa.
Description: This map is an illustration of bioenergy installations in various facility types across Canada using solid biomass fuels to generate HEAT (bioheat). The threshold for this map is 0.25 MWth. This is due to the differences in utilisation rates (such as availability, capacity factor and efficiency) between bioenergy and solar, hydro, wind energy.
Description: This map is an illustration of Canada’s four commercial-scale CCS projects: the Saskpower Boundary Dam project, the Shell Quest project, the Weyburn-Midale project, and the Alberta Carbon Trunk Line project (under construction).
Proponents of Canada’s large-scale CCS demonstration projects include: SaskPower which constructed and has been operating the world’s 1st commercial CCS project at a coal-fired power plant since October 2014; Shell Canada which launched the Quest CCS project at an oil sands upgrader on November 6, 2015; Cenovus Energy which has been operating the largest monitored CO2 location in the world at a depleted oilfield at Weyburn-Midale; and Enhance Energy as lead for the Alberta Carbon Trunk Line which will capture and store CO2 from a fertilizer plant and an oil sands refinery starting in 2017.
Canada’s approach to CCS has involved the implementation of large-scale demonstration projects to prove the technology while learning-from-doing, advancing the technology globally by sharing Canadian knowledge and expertise, and improving the economics of CCS by reducing technology costs through continued R&D of next generation technologies.
Canada has a growing network of expertise with Canadian companies and researchers performing R&D on next generation carbon capture use and storage (CCUS) technologies.
Description: This map is an illustration of Canada’s clean energy test centres and laboratories that provide Research and Development (R&D) support in technology areas such as renewable energy, energy storage, smart grids, micro grids and residential energy systems.
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Copyright Text: Natural Resources Canada. Clean Energy Test Centres. Ottawa: CanmetENERGY, 2015.
Description: This map layer shows the locations of geothermal-heating installations in various facility types across Canada. The types of facilities shown on this map include community clubs/arenas, museums, and institutional and commercial buildings.
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Copyright Text: Natural Resources Canada. Geothermal Heating Facilities (compiled from federal, provincial, and company information), 2016. Ottawa.
Name: Clean technology incubators and accelerators
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Description: This map layer depicts incubators and accelerators in Canada that provide support and services to enterprises focussed on clean technologies and enterprises focussed on various other technologies. Accelerators provide seed funding and time-limited support to start-up teams using structured programming and mentorship services designed to accelerate high-potential firms to success or failure. Incubators cater to early-stage entrepreneurs providing longer tenure for participating firms and a broader suite of services in terms of access to physical space and mentorship.
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Copyright Text: Natural Resources Canada. 2016. Deep Centre. Canadian Acceleration and Business Incubation (CABI) Association
Name: Research, development and demonstration projects
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Description: This map is an illustration of Canada’s most notable government-directed efforts in the research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) of emerging energy technologies. These projects may not generate large amounts of electricity, but instead increase energy efficiency, improve the management of existing generation, or develop and demonstrate the potential to harness energy resources if previously infeasible. Projects may take place across communities, within proponent laboratories, or at specialized demonstration sites. These types of project provide the basis for the long-term deployment of clean electricity technologies.
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Copyright Text: Natural Resources Canada. ecoENERGY INNOVATION INITIATIVE Research and Development (R&D) Projects.
Description: This map layer is an illustration of Canada’s biomass-energy resource potential. It includes two views: Agriculture and Forestry. The agriculture material on this map is the available straw from cereal crops (wheat, oats, barley) after cattle-usage and soil-sustainability requirements have been removed. The above-ground biomass for wheat, barley, and oats is separated into three components: straw, chaff, stubble. About 50% of the total above-ground biomass is chaff and stubble and is not available for exploitation as a result of mechanical and environmental limitations. Of the straw component, soil-conservation requirements and cattle-usage demands have been removed to arrive at the amount of total available cereal straw. The forestry sublayer comprises three types of data sets: roadside harvest residues, mill residues, and urban wood residue. Roadside harvest residues consist of forest-harvest biomass that is not utilized by industry. Mill residues include nonmarketable sawdust, wood chunks, and bark components that are produced at the mill site when logs are processed into forest products. Urban wood residue is a portion of the municipal waste stream; most of this residue consists of used lumber, trim, shipping pallets/crates, trees, branches, and other wood debris.
The forestry sub-layer comprises three types of data sets: urban woodresidue, mill residue and roadside residue.
Urban wood residue: Woody biomass resulting from urban residential and industrial landscaping, construction, renovation, secondary wood-product production, packaging-product and storage-product disposal, and the disposal of wood furnishings.
Mill residue: Primary and secondary wood-biomass residue, originating from major forest-industry facilities that consume at least 100 000 cubic metres of forest trees annually. Roadside residue: Wood-biomass residue originating from forest-logging operations that process full trees at roadside landings. This includes only residues originating from large industries that consume at least 100 000 cubic metres of forest trees annually.
Name: Forestry wood residues and waste wood (tonnes per year)
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Description: This map layer is an illustration of Canada’s biomass-energy resource potential. It includes two views: Agriculture and Forestry. The agriculture material on this map is the available straw from cereal crops (wheat, oats, barley) after cattle-usage and soil-sustainability requirements have been removed. The above-ground biomass for wheat, barley, and oats is separated into three components: straw, chaff, stubble. About 50% of the total above-ground biomass is chaff and stubble and is not available for exploitation as a result of mechanical and environmental limitations. Of the straw component, soil-conservation requirements and cattle-usage demands have been removed to arrive at the amount of total available cereal straw. The forestry sublayer comprises three types of data sets: roadside harvest residues, mill residues, and urban wood residue. Roadside harvest residues consist of forest-harvest biomass that is not utilized by industry. Mill residues include nonmarketable sawdust, wood chunks, and bark components that are produced at the mill site when logs are processed into forest products. Urban wood residue is a portion of the municipal waste stream; most of this residue consists of used lumber, trim, shipping pallets/crates, trees, branches, and other wood debris.
The forestry sub-layer comprises three types of data sets: urban woodresidue, mill residue and roadside residue.
Urban wood residue: Woody biomass resulting from urban residential and industrial landscaping, construction, renovation, secondary wood-product production, packaging-product and storage-product disposal, and the disposal of wood furnishings.
Mill residue: Primary and secondary wood-biomass residue, originating from major forest-industry facilities that consume at least 100 000 cubic metres of forest trees annually. Roadside residue: Wood-biomass residue originating from forest-logging operations that process full trees at roadside landings. This includes only residues originating from large industries that consume at least 100 000 cubic metres of forest trees annually.
Description: The distribution of deep geothermal resources for Canada was generated by regional mapping of geothermal gradients, depth temperature profiles, and underlying geologic regions to define reservoir types. Resource potential is divided by potential end us of geothermal resource based on predicted temperatures of produced waters at reasonably economic drilling depths.
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Copyright Text: Grasby, S.E., Allen, D.M., Bell, S., Chen, Z., Ferguson, G., Jessop, A., Kelman, M., Ko, M., Majorowicz, J., Moore, M., Raymond, J., and Therrien, R., 2012. Geothermal energy resource potential of Canada; Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 6914, revised edition, 322 p.
Description: This map is an illustration of Canada’s tidal energy resource potential. About 190 tidal power sites have been identified off Canada’s coasts with a total estimated capacity of 42,000MW—more than 63 percent of the country’s annual total electricity consumption. Nunavut has the country’s greatest abundance of tidal resources; British Columbia has the most potential sites. Tidal energy is produced by the rise and fall of tides from the gravitational influence of the sun and moon. Tidal energy can take two forms: tidal current and tidal range. Canada is pursuing tidal current energy generation.
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Copyright Text: National Research Council Canada. Tidal Current Mean Potential Power (MW) Estimates. Ottawa: Marine Infrastructure, Energy & Water Resources, 2015.
Description: This map is an illustration of Canada’s solar energy resource potential. It includes two views, the mean daily global insolation and the global horizontal irradiance (GHI) in Canada.
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Copyright Text: McKenney, D. W., Pelland, S., Poissant, Y., Morris, R., Hutchinson, M., Papadopol, P., Lawrence, K. and Campbell, K. (2008). Spatial insolation models for photovoltaic energy in Canada. Solar Energy, 82(11), 1049-1061. Data accessed: February, 2016. Ottawa: Natural Resources Canada.
Description: This map is an illustration of Canada’s solar energy resource potential. It includes two views, the mean daily global insolation and the global horizontal irradiance (GHI) in Canada.
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Copyright Text: Natural Resources Canada. Annual Average Direct Normal Irradiance 1988-2014. Ottawa: Office of Energy Research and Development, 2015.