Canada renewable energy statistics

Renewable energy currently supplies around 16.5% of Canada's primary energy supply.

Canada is currently world's second largest producer of hydroelectricity (behind China), accounting for 11,7% of global hydroelectricity. Canada currently generates around 59% of its electricity from hydropower.

Most of Canada's hydropower capacity belongs to Hydro-Québec's extensive network of 59 hydroelectric dams with a combined capacity of 34,118 megawatts.

Robert-Bourassa hydroelectric power plant on the La Grande River is not only the largest hydroelectric power plant in Canada but also in North America, and has a capacity of 5,616 MW.

At the end of 2009 wind power supplied approximately 1,1% of Canada's demand for electricity.

In the January of 2010 Canada had approximately 3,249 MW of wind power capacity coming from 99 wind farms.

Ontario is the leading province in installed wind power capacity with the 1161.5 MW, followed by Quebec with 659 MW. This situation could change within the next five years because Quebec plans to add new 2671.5 MW of wind power capacity by 2015, and Ontario just 647.2.

Canadians are very supportive of new renewable energy projects, survey by Angus Reid Strategies in 2007 showed that 89% of Canadians support using renewable energy sources like wind or solar power.

The largest wind farm in Canada is the Wolfe Island Wind Farm, Ontario with the capacity of 198 MW.

In April 2010, Canada approved 184 large solar power projects with a total worth close to a $8 billion.

Canada's wind power industry currently employs around 4500 people.

Canada's average annual market growth for photovoltaics has been over 20% for the last ten years.

Canada currently has the only tidal power plant in North America, at Annapolis Royal, on the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia. This tidal power plant has the capacity of 20 MW.