Commercial/Institutional Sector
British Columbia and Territories
Table 48: Health Care and Social Assistance Space Conditioning Secondary Energy Use by End Use and by Energy Source
  2000   2018 2019 2020 2021
Space Cooling Energy Use for Health Care and Social Assistance (PJ) 0.4   0.7 0.6 0.7 0.9

Energy Use by Energy Source (PJ)
Electricity 0.4   0.7 0.6 0.7 0.8
Natural Gas 0.0   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1

Shares (%)
Electricity 94.5   94.2 94.2 94.2 92.4
Natural Gas 5.5   5.8 5.8 5.8 7.6

Activity
Floor Space (million m2) 5.14   9.09 9.12 9.26 9.40
Energy Intensity (MJ/m2) 81.94   76.33 70.97 74.99 90.86
Space Heating Energy Use for Health Care and Social Assistance (PJ) 9.1   7.4 7.9 9.4 9.5

Energy Use by Energy Source (PJ)
Electricity 1.4   1.5 1.6 1.6 1.5
Natural Gas 6.6   5.8 6.2 7.7 8.0
Light Fuel Oil and Kerosene 0.8   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 0.3   0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1

Shares (%)
Electricity 15.1   20.5 19.7 17.2 15.5
Natural Gas 72.2   78.1 78.9 81.8 83.6
Light Fuel Oil and Kerosene 8.5   0.2 0.1 0.2 0.2
Heavy Fuel Oil 1.0   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Steam 0.0   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Other1 3.2   1.2 1.2 0.8 0.7

Activity
Floor Space (million m2) 6.92   9.99 9.93 9.98 10.03
Energy Intensity (MJ/m2) 1,317.10   743.53 796.51 944.26 949.07
Heating Degree-Day Index 0.97   0.89 0.94 0.87 0.95
Cooling Degree-Day Index 0.78   2.30 1.74 1.40 3.75

Footnotes:

1) “Other” includes coal and propane.