With interactive maps,
explore how to look at energy in different ways
Let’s understand the importance of how energy is currently being used, what potential local energy solutions cities have, and what policies and actions drive these cities to become more resilient and renewable.
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Where Is Energy Used?
Communities across the region use different total amounts of energy for electricity, heating, and transportation. We also consume different amount of energy per person across the region, depending on which municipality we live in (due to their housing types, land uses, transport options, and energy/climate change policies). Understanding how much communities rely on energy use is refers to energy demand. There are many ways to see energy, including the energy use (intensity and cost) and GHG (emission and intensity).
Where Can We Get Energy?
This section provides an inventory of the potential capacity of select renewable energy resources across the Metro Vancouver region, and describes issues arising from the associated technologies. However it does not reflect constraints of economic viability, social acceptability or current regulations. Existing data from various sources are analyzed and mapped using new techniques suitable to communicating energy resources at a regional scale.
