Current Community Energy and Emissions Inventory data
Last updated on January 14, 2025Access the latest release of the Community Energy and Emissions Inventory, which uses the most recent data methods applied to the available years from 2007 to 2022.
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Buildings
The data is provided by utility companies and includes the amount of electricity, natural gas, renewable natural gas and piped propane used by residential, commercial and some industrial buildings. The data also includes estimates of wood, heating oil, and delivered propane used in residential buildings. The 2022 BC Hydro data has been further disaggregated to residential, commercial and industrial sub-sector groups.
Find out: Data inputs for buildings emissions
On-road transportation
Community-level data on greenhouse gas emissions from on-road transportation are estimated using vehicle registration data, estimated vehicle kilometres travelled data and fuel economies data.
Find out: Data inputs for transportation emissions
Municipal solid waste
There are two methodologies for estimating community greenhouse gas emissions for solid waste: the Waste-In-Place methodology uses a first order decay model on historic annual tonnes of waste disposed at regional district landfills and the Waste Commitment methodology assumes all waste decays in the year for which it was tipped at the landfill.
Find out: Data inputs for waste emissions
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