Alberta is the highest ranked province for total household energy consumption at 137.1 Gigajoules (GJ) per household. That’s 39% higher than BC’s total household energy consumption of 92.1 GJ per household.
The "slice" worksheet in my excel workbook contains the total energy consumption in GJ per household for each individual province in the year 2013 (the most recent year included in the dataset), sorted from highest to lowest. Three other worksheets are province energy consumption in GJ per household by energy type—electricity, heating oil and natural gas—as opposed to a total of all energy types.
In the dataset I have chosen—when broken down into different types of energy—Alberta is lowest in electricity consumption and highest in natural gas consumption, while B.C. lands roughly in the middle range for both categories. I was surprised to see how little energy per household was used in Quebec compared to Alberta, seeing as how Quebec has more than double the population of Alberta.
With this dataset I will be able to see which provinces use electricity, natural gas or heating oil the most. Additional research into how accessible different types of energy are to each province will help draw conclusions on how each province contributes to greenhouse gas emissions, and how energy consumption compares among provinces.
An article by the Globe and Mail discussed Trudeau’s plan of reducing Greenhouse Gas emissions across Canada. The article mentioned a national plan is not viable as each province has different practices in place and access to energy varies among provinces. At the end of the article there is a breakdown of each province and details about GHG emissions and plans—like a carbon tax or carbon cap—to reduce excessive energy consumption.
I will still be using the original dataset to help with my final analysis.
I have also found a more concise dataset that I have used for this update.
Hello Mel, You provided solid resources and gave me a quick education on energy consumption by each province. Aside: I am not sure why but I clicked one hyper link and an error message occurred. "I have also found a more concise dataset that I have used for this update." What is your lead sentence?
ReplyDeleteHi Mel. Your opening sentence is a great hook and tells the viewer exactly what they will be looking at. However it may be helpful to mention the sizes of smaller provinces. Alberta uses more oil than PEI but Alberta is also much larger than PEI. I think you just need to convert to percentages and it will look better.
ReplyDeleteYou picked a very important topic and I think it's so interesting to see to see which provinces use electricity, natural gas or heating oil the most. I like the article that you picked, because shows how important the topic is.
ReplyDeleteThis is a very important topic! I spent three weeks in PEI this summer and actually spent some time in conversation with people there about the energy consumption there and the future of energy consumption in our country as a whole. There is a lot of good change that could come through considering data like this!
ReplyDeleteWhat is your lead sentence??
Wow that is a gigantic difference between the energy usage of Alberta and B.C. I wonder how it could be so big? Whats interesting is that the data limits this to household energy usage so perhaps they just have bigger houses and more appliances? The data would look great on an interactive chart.
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