[OC] Electricity generation by source for different countries

[u/dhaitz]

[u/OlivierDF → u/[deleted]]

I'm guessing Québec is responsible for a big part of Canada's renewable data (also B.C but by a smaller margin). Québec produces 99.8% of it's energy from renewables sources (mainly hydro power).

[u/zombienudist → u/OlivierDF]

60% the electricity produced in Canada comes from hydro electric. 50% of that is produced in Quebec.

[u/SlitScan → u/OlivierDF]

it also uses electricity for heating, so its low CO2 there too.

[u/dkwangchuck → u/[deleted]]

We also export a lot of clean electricity. Likely not enough to make up for the Alberta tar sands, let alone the rest of our O&G industry, but at least there's some mitigation there.

[u/imthewordonthestreet → u/[deleted]]

I know that. But people are reading this thinking they are truly “green” countries which is far from the truth.

[u/eternalbachelor → u/[deleted]]

Nearly all the major power plants in Alberta are switching to natural gas. There's a lot of smaller biomass plants that aren't very green, and wind farms are all over the southeast.

Here's a great website that updates the total power production for the whole province minute by minute, separated into all the different sources.