Canada S Energy Outlook 1996 2020

Study providing a long-term outlook for energy demand and supply in Canada and for energy-related emissions of the principal greenhouse gases over the next 30 years. The outlook was developed based on extensive consultations with experts in the private and public sectors and a careful examination of the relationships between energy consumption and production and price, economic, demographic, and technological factors. The outlook is not a forecast since the energy and related policies of the federal and provincial governments is held constant throughout the projected period.

Presents midterm forecasts of of energy supply, demand, and prices through 2020. Includes: legislation and regulations (electricity deregulation, various standards, and new Acts), issues in focus (electricity pricing, stimulating renewables, carbon emissions), market trends (energy demand, electricity, oil and natural gas, coal, emissions), forecast comparisons, list of acronyms. Key issues for the forecast extension to 2020 are: trends in energy efficiency improvements, effects of increasing production and productivity improvements on energy prices, and reduction in nuclear generating capacity. More than 125 tables and figures.