Canada

TABLE 1: ESTIMATED AVAILABLE ENERGY RESOURCES

Estimated available energy sources
 Fossil Fuels Nuclear 
Solid Liquid Gas Uranium Hydro
 Total amount in specific units* 6.6 27.35 1 982.5 493 900 78.4

TABLE 2: ENERGY STATISTICS (IN EJ)

Year 1980 1990 2000 2005 2010 2014 Compound Annual Growth Rate (%)
2000 to 2014
Energy consumption**          
- Total 8.2 8.6 10.3 10.9 10.0 10.7 0.3
- Solids*** 0.9 1.1 1.3 1.3 1.0 0.8 -3.4
- Liquids 4.3 3.7 4.3 4.6 4.3 4.0 -0.5
- Gases 2.0 2.7 3.3 3.5 3.2 4.2 1.7
- Primary Electricity**** 0.9 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.5 1.6 1.0
Energy production            
- Total 8.6 11.5 15.7 15.6 16.2 18.7 1.3
- Solids*** 0.9 1.7 1.6 1.5 1.5 1.5 -0.5
- Liquids 3.8 4.2 5.5 6.3 7.1 9.1 3.7
- Gases 2.9 4.2 7.1 7.2 6.0 6.4 -0.7
- Primary Electricity**** 1.0 1.3 1.5 1.6 1.6 1.7 0.9
Net import (Import - Export)            
- Total -0.3 -2.9 -5.4 -5.6 -6.2 -8.1 2.9

TABLE 3: ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION, CONSUMPTION & CAPACITY

Year 1980 1990 2000 2005 2010 2014 Compound Annual Growth Rate (%)
2000 to 2014
Capacity of electrical plants (GWe)            
- Thermal 28.4 31.2 31.6 33.8 38.3 34.2 0.6
- Hydro 47.8 59.4 67.4 72.0 75.1 78.4 1.1
- Nuclear 5.9 13.5 10.6 13.4 13.3 14 2.0
- Wind 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.7 4.0 9.7 38.6
- Biomass - - 1.5 1.7 1.7 2.0 2.1
- other renewable - - - - - 1.9 -
- Total 82.0 104.2 111.3 121.5 132.6 140.2 1.7
Electricity production (TW.h)            
- Thermal 85.9 102.6 156.0 150.3 138.6 125.8 -1.5
- Hydro 253.1 296.9 354.6 358.5 372.1 379 0.5
- Nuclear 38.5 73.0 68.7 86.8 88.3 101.6 2.8
- Wind - 0.0 0.3 1.7 10.1 22.3 36.0
- Biomass - 2.3 6.4 7.2 8.5 8.7 2.2
- other renewable - - - - - 1.7 -
- Total** 377.5 474.8 585.8 604.4 617.9 639.1 0.6
Total Electricity consumption (TW.h) 340.1 465.4 550.2 580.5 570.4 579.4 0.4

TABLE 4: ENERGY RELATED RATIOS

Year 1980 1990 2000 2005 2010 2014
Energy consumption per capita (GJ/capita) 334 309 335 338 293 300
Electricity consumption per capita (kW.h/capita) 13 823 16 736 17 873 17 943 16 712 16 238
Electricity production/Energy production (%) 12 11 10 10 10 9
Nuclear/Total electricity (%) 10 15 12 14 16 16
Ratio of external dependency (%)* -4 -34 -52 -52 -62 -75

TABLE 5: STATUS AND PERFORMANCE OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS AS OF 31. DECEMBER 2016

Reactor Unit Type Net
Capacity
[MW(e)]
Status Operator Reactor
Supplier
Construction
Date
First
Criticality
Date
First Grid
Date
Commercial
Date
Shutdown
Date
UCF
for
2016
BRUCE-1 PHWR 760 Operational BRUCEPOW OH/AECL 1971-06-01 1976-12-17 1977-01-14 1977-09-01 90.4
BRUCE-2 PHWR 760 Operational BRUCEPOW OH/AECL 1970-12-01 1976-07-27 1976-09-04 1977-09-01 73.2
BRUCE-3 PHWR 750 Operational BRUCEPOW OH/AECL 1972-07-01 1977-11-28 1977-12-12 1978-02-01 75.6
BRUCE-4 PHWR 750 Operational BRUCEPOW OH/AECL 1972-09-01 1978-12-10 1978-12-21 1979-01-18 85.3
BRUCE-5 PHWR 817 Operational BRUCEPOW OH/AECL 1978-06-01 1984-11-15 1984-12-02 1985-03-01 97.9
BRUCE-6 PHWR 817 Operational BRUCEPOW OH/AECL 1978-01-01 1984-05-29 1984-06-26 1984-09-14 97.6
BRUCE-7 PHWR 817 Operational BRUCEPOW OH/AECL 1979-05-01 1986-01-07 1986-02-22 1986-04-10 72.2
BRUCE-8 PHWR 817 Operational BRUCEPOW OH/AECL 1979-08-01 1987-02-15 1987-03-09 1987-05-22 71.4
DARLINGTON-1 PHWR 878 Operational OPG OH/AECL 1982-04-01 1990-10-29 1990-12-19 1992-11-14 99.7
DARLINGTON-2 PHWR 878 Operational OPG OH/AECL 1981-09-01 1989-11-05 1990-01-15 1990-10-09 75.7
DARLINGTON-3 PHWR 878 Operational OPG OH/AECL 1984-09-01 1992-11-09 1992-12-07 1993-02-14 87.6
DARLINGTON-4 PHWR 878 Operational OPG OH/AECL 1985-07-01 1993-03-13 1993-04-17 1993-06-14 75.5
PICKERING-1 PHWR 515 Operational OPG OH/AECL 1966-06-01 1971-02-25 1971-04-04 1971-07-29 94.3
PICKERING-4 PHWR 515 Operational OPG OH/AECL 1968-05-01 1973-05-16 1973-05-21 1973-06-17 54.9
PICKERING-5 PHWR 516 Operational OPG OH/AECL 1974-11-01 1982-10-23 1982-12-19 1983-05-10 98.8
PICKERING-6 PHWR 516 Operational OPG OH/AECL 1975-10-01 1983-10-15 1983-11-08 1984-02-01 91.3
PICKERING-7 PHWR 516 Operational OPG OH/AECL 1976-03-01 1984-10-22 1984-11-17 1985-01-01 62.3
PICKERING-8 PHWR 516 Operational OPG OH/AECL 1976-09-01 1985-12-17 1986-01-21 1986-02-28 48.6
POINT LEPREAU PHWR 660 Operational NBEPC AECL 1975-05-01 1982-07-25 1982-09-11 1983-02-01 78.2
DOUGLAS POINT PHWR 206 Permanent Shutdown OH AECL 1960-02-01 1966-11-15 1967-01-07 1968-09-26 1984-05-04
GENTILLY-1 HWLWR 250 Permanent Shutdown HQ AECL 1966-09-01 1970-11-12 1971-04-05 1972-05-01 1977-06-01
GENTILLY-2 PHWR 635 Permanent Shutdown HQ AECL 1974-04-01 1982-09-11 1982-12-04 1983-10-01 2012-12-28
PICKERING-2 PHWR 515 Permanent Shutdown OPG OH/AECL 1966-09-01 1971-09-15 1971-10-06 1971-12-30 2007-05-28
PICKERING-3 PHWR 515 Permanent Shutdown OPG OH/AECL 1967-12-01 1972-04-24 1972-05-03 1972-06-01 2008-10-31
ROLPHTON NPD PHWR 22 Permanent Shutdown OH CGE 1958-01-01 1962-04-11 1962-06-04 1962-10-01 1987-08-01
Data source: IAEA - Power Reactor Information System (PRIS).
Note: Table 7 is completely generated from PRIS data to reflect the latest available information and may be more up to date than the text of the report.