Renewable energy — energy from natural sources that replenish themselves at the same rate they are used — accounted for sixty-seven per cent of Canada’s electricity generation in 2013. Biomass, wind, and solar power nearly made up a quarter of all renewable energy generation (heating, fuels and electricity) in Canada last year.
Unfortunately there is no comparable national data available in Canada from any other year, so it is hard to know just how much Canada’s renewable energy sector has grown. The findings for 2013 come from a new renewable energy database launched earlier this year by the Canadian Industrial Canadian (Read more…)