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A GUIDE
POWER GENERATION in CANADA
 
CONTENTS
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INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3CANADA’S SITUATION AND OUTLOOK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5FUNDAMENTALS OF ELECTRICITY GENERATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
COMPARING ELECTRICITY GENERATION TECHNOLOGIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11
THE PATH FORWARD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27REFERENCES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28
© Canadian Electricity Association, 2006. All rights reserved. No part of this work coveredby the copyright herein may be reproduced or used in any form or by any meanswithout prior written permission.
Canadian Electricity Association
350 Sparks Street, Suite 907Ottawa, Ontario K1R 7S8Tel: (613) 230-9263Fax: (613) 230-9326CEA acknowledges the research and technical writing provided by Martin Tampier ofENVINTConsulting. CEA is solely responsible for the contents of this publication.
Une version électronique française de ce document est disponible sur le site Internet de l’Association canadienne de l’électricité à l’adresse www.canelect.ca
For further information, contact:
Brigitte HébertJulio LagosSenior Communications AdvisorGeneration Issues Advisorhebert@canelect.calagos@canelect.ca
 
INTRODUCTION
Canadians expect that their increasing electricity needs will be met in an environmentally-friendly fashion. One of thekey components in a prosperous economy is low-cost, reliable electricity that does not unduly burden the environment.Governments are implementing a growing number of environmental demands on the sector, through legislative regimesand international commitments (such as the Kyoto Protocol commitments). In response to these trends, the industry’senvironmental performance continues to improve: electricity intensity is declining, air emissions from fossil generation(coal, oil and gas) are declining; waste and hazardous materials are being reduced or more effectively managed; andspecies and habitat management is a bigger and bigger part of decision-making on new and existing projects.Measuring and documenting this performance is often a challenge. To meet it, the Canadian Electricity Association(CEA), representing a majority of the country’s generation, transmission and distribution assets, has undertaken anumber of initiatives. CEA’s Environmental Commitment and Responsibility Program, its work on climate change, mercury,and fisheries issues, and most recently its pilot studies on measuring environmental performance
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, are all examples.However, a necessary precursor to measuring and documenting the performance of the industry is ensuring that thepublic understand just what electricity generation entails. To that end, CEA has prepared
Power Generation inCanada: A Guide
. It is designed to explain the relative financial, technological, social and environmental issues forall sources of electricity – conventional
and 
emerging. The Guide offers an overview of the issues related to eachtechnology and an assessment of the potential of each technology to be a contributor to the 20-year generationoutlook in Canada. The Guide attempts to provide an unbiased view without choosing winners or losers while focusingon industry’s ultimate goal: ensuring that supplies of affordable, reliable power are delivered to Canadians in anenvironmentally responsible way.A copy of
Power Generation in Canada: A Guide
as well as further information on electricity generation optionsfor Canada are available on the CEA Web site at www.canelect.ca.
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1.CEA has recently completed a series of pilot projects co-funded by Natural Resources Canada that collectively create an objective measurement of theenvironmental performance of five generation technologies (natural gas, nuclear, hydro, wind and coal). While highly technical and analytic, the results of thisstudy will help the industry, government decision-makers, and ultimately the consumer, to better understand howvarious generation technologies meet aclearly-defined environmental standard. See“An Environmental Assessment of Selected Canadian Electric Power Generation Systems Using a Site-DependentLife-Cycle Impact Assessment Approach,” Scientific Certification Systems, Emeryville, CA, 2005: www.scscertified.com/electricity.
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