Commercial/Institutional Sector
British Columbia and Territories1
Table 17: Health Care and Social Assistance Secondary Energy Use and GHG Emissions by End Use
  2000   2018 2019 2020 2021
Total Energy Use for Health Care and Social Assistance (PJ) 17.0   17.8 18.2 23.4 23.7

Energy Use by End Use (PJ)
Space Heating 9.1   7.4 7.9 9.4 9.5
Water Heating 1.9   1.8 1.8 2.8 2.8
Auxiliary Equipment 2.3   4.0 4.0 5.2 5.3
Auxiliary Motors 1.1   0.9 0.8 1.3 1.2
Lighting 2.1   2.9 3.1 4.0 4.0
Space Cooling 0.4   0.7 0.6 0.7 0.9

Shares (%)
Space Heating 53.5   41.8 43.4 40.2 40.1
Water Heating 11.4   10.3 9.7 11.9 11.7
Auxiliary Equipment 13.5   22.4 21.7 22.4 22.3
Auxiliary Motors 6.5   5.0 4.7 5.4 5.3
Lighting 12.6   16.5 17.0 17.2 17.0
Space Cooling 2.5   3.9 3.6 3.0 3.6

Activity
Floor Space (million m2) 6.92   9.99 9.93 9.98 10.03
Energy Intensity (GJ/m2) 2.46   1.78 1.84 2.35 2.36
Total GHG Emissions for Health Care and Social Assistance Excluding Electricity (Mt of CO2e) 0.5   0.4 0.5 0.6 0.6

GHG Emissions by End Use (Mt of CO2e)
Space Heating 0.4   0.3 0.3 0.4 0.4
Water Heating 0.1   0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1
Auxiliary Equipment 0.0   0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1
Auxiliary Motors 0.0   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Lighting 0.0   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Space Cooling 0.0   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
GHG Intensity (tonne/TJ) 31.1   24.9 25.2 25.6 26.5

Footnotes:

1) Data on GHG emissions are presented excluding GHG emissions related to electricity production.