Simon Fraser University’s School of Resource and Environmental Management announced at the end of March that its Canadian Industrial Energy End-Use Data and Analysis Centre (CIEEDAC) is expanding its focus from single large energy users, mostly in industry and power generation, to distributed sources like buildings, transport, and non-energy emissions.
Now known as the Canadian Energy and Emissions Data Centre (CEEDC), it promises to keep providing all the industrial data services it has in the past, including a detailed breakdown of energy and emissions for many industry and power sectors, mapping alternative energy facilities across the country, and tracking new areas like biofuels. But it will now expand to provide estimates of heating and transportation fuel use and associated emissions, numbers and types of buildings and vehicles across the country, and eventually non-energy emission sources like agriculture and forestry.
As part of its ongoing work on industries and power generation, the group says it will develop data series that are harmonized across multiple indicators, like physical and economic product, energy in fuel and energy units, and GHG emissions.
IPPSO FACTO carries reports on the work of the centre from time to time.