The Canadian Energy Systems Analysis Research organization (CESAR) has provided open access to its latest, interactive, multi-year Sankey diagrams showing the energy systems of Canada and its provinces between 1990 and 2013. The web portal to these Sankey diagrams allows users to move rapidly between hundreds of visualizations showing flows from energy sources to energy services for individual jurisdictions and years. In addition, these new visualizations provide documentation on what has been included in each of the ‘flows’ or ‘nodes’ that comprise the energy systems of Canada.
To create these visualizations, CESAR partnered with whatIf? Technologies Inc. who have made available the data contained in their most recent (Version 7) calibration of the Canadian Energy Systems Simulator (CanESS) model. The CanESS model compiles and integrates hundreds of government database resources and dozens of conversion factors extracted from the scientific literature.