Canadian Gas Budgets
New Gas Programs
Alberta, which had formerly mandated only electric programs, added gas programs this year. In Québec, Gaz Métro more than doubled the size of its gas budget. These provincial enterprises greatly expand gas opportunities in Canada.
Overall, Canadian gas program budgets have grown 30 percent since 2007—and this does not take into account exchange rate differentials. Calculated in Canadian dollars, this growth would be even higher.5 These budgets grew across all the sectors, with low income budgets increasing the most at 60 percent, followed by residential budgets at 41 percent and commercial and industrial budgets at 31 percent. Seventy-three percent of Canadian gas budgets reported are administered by CEE members.
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The above table includes Evaluation, Measurement, and Verification (EM&V) in the totals. The below table breaks out EM&V from the subset of organizations who reported EM&V as a separate line item.
5 This report uses the September 2, 2008 Bank of Canada exchange rate of CAD$1=USD$0.93 throughout.
