Description: The Remote Communities Energy Database is a tool that aims to collect and show pertinent factual information about the generation and use of electricity and other energy sources for all remote communities of Canada.
This data is collected from a number of sources, including from Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC), Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) and various stakeholders involved in these communities. Information shown is public information that is available from Statistics Canada, from remote communities themselves, from publicly available reports or from public web sites. Its availability in one site where data can be collected and searched is what makes it a powerful tool.
The term “remote community” are communities that fulfill the following criteria:
Any community not currently connected to the North-American electrical grid nor to the piped natural gas network; and
Is a permanent or long-term (5 years or more) settlement with at least 10 dwellings.
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)
Display Field: TOTAL
Type: Feature Layer
Geometry Type: esriGeometryPolygon
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: Tidal energy resource potential: mean potential power (MW)
Display Field: Site_Name
Type: Feature Layer
Geometry Type: esriGeometryPoint
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: Natural Resources Canada. Annual Average Direct Normal Irradiance 1988-2014. Ottawa: Office of Energy Research and Development, 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: 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.