Commercial/Institutional Sector
Alberta
Table 38: Retail Trade Space Conditioning Secondary Energy Use by End Use and by Energy Source
  2000   2018 2019 2020 2021
Space Cooling Energy Use for Retail Trade (PJ) 0.5   0.5 0.2 0.3 0.4

Energy Use by Energy Source (PJ)
Electricity 0.4   0.4 0.2 0.2 0.3
Natural Gas 0.0   0.1 0.0 0.0 0.1

Shares (%)
Electricity 90.2   81.0 81.0 81.0 81.0
Natural Gas 9.8   19.0 19.0 19.0 19.0

Activity
Floor Space (million m2) 9.81   15.22 15.25 15.18 15.29
Energy Intensity (MJ/m2) 47.67   35.98 16.31 16.96 27.83
Space Heating Energy Use for Retail Trade (PJ) 16.2   24.0 25.0 24.1 22.7

Energy Use by Energy Source (PJ)
Electricity 0.7   0.0 0.9 1.4 1.4
Natural Gas 14.0   22.6 22.7 21.5 20.3
Light Fuel Oil and Kerosene 0.0   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Heavy Fuel Oil 0.1   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Steam 0.0   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Other1 1.4   1.3 1.3 1.2 1.0

Shares (%)
Electricity 4.5   0.2 3.5 5.8 6.2
Natural Gas 86.1   94.4 91.0 89.2 89.2
Light Fuel Oil and Kerosene 0.2   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Heavy Fuel Oil 0.9   0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0
Steam 0.0   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Other1 8.3   5.2 5.3 5.0 4.5

Activity
Floor Space (million m2) 13.08   16.58 16.45 16.20 16.16
Energy Intensity (MJ/m2) 1,240.88   1,446.67 1,517.57 1,489.02 1,405.26
Heating Degree-Day Index 0.98   1.00 1.03 0.95 0.93
Cooling Degree-Day Index 0.85   1.22 0.40 0.98 2.28

Footnotes:

1) “Other” includes coal and propane.