Work out your Prince Edward Island electricity emissions
= 319.0 kg CO2e in 2024 (Scope 2 (location-based))26.46 tonnes including grid losses (ECCC consumption intensity)
Each kWh × 0.0032 kg CO2e, ECCC's 2024 (preliminary) generation intensity for Prince Edward Island (National Inventory Report, Table A7–3).
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Prince Edward Island electricity emission factor by year
| Year | Generation intensity (g CO2e per kWh) | kg CO2e per kWh | Change | Consumption intensity (g CO2e per kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 (preliminary) | 3.2 | 0.0032 | -55.6% | 265 |
| 2023 | 7.2 | 0.0072 | +243.8% | 176 |
| 2022 | 2.1 | 0.0021 | -35.0% | 239 |
| 2021 | 3.2 | 0.0032 | +664.1% | 197 |
| 2020 | 0.4 | 0.0004 | -75.4% | 149 |
| 2019 | 1.7 | 0.0017 | -92.4% since 2015 | 204 |
| 2015 | 22.5 | 0.023 | +456.9% since 2010 | 221 |
| 2010 | 4.0 | 0.0040 | -96.7% since 2005 | 357 |
| 2005 | 122 | 0.122 | -90.5% since 1990 | 425 |
| 1990 | 1,279 | 1.279 | – | 389 |
Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada, National Inventory Report 2026, Annex 7, Table A7–3 ("Electricity Generation and GHG Emission Details for Prince Edward Island"). Covers power plants whose main business is generating electricity (NAICS 22111); CO2, methane and nitrous oxide. "Not shown" means the table withholds the figure (not shown due to statistical limitations).Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada (Environment and Climate Change Canada, National Inventory Report).
Generation intensity, consumption intensity and grid losses
ECCC publishes two figures. The generation intensity is greenhouse gas per kWh as electricity leaves the power plants and goes onto the grid; it leaves out grid losses. The consumption intensity is per kWh as it reaches the customer: ECCC takes the electricity lost in transmission, distribution and metering off the total generated, and adds the sulphur hexafluoride (SF6) leaking from grid equipment. So the consumption figure is the higher of the two: in 2024, 265 g against 3.2 g for Prince Edward Island.
In Prince Edward Island the gap is unusually wide. The island generates little of its own electricity, mostly from wind, and imports most of the rest from New Brunswick, whose grid is far more carbon-intensive. ECCC's table does not explain how it treats imports, but the consumption intensity is far closer to what the island's customers actually use. Many businesses here will find it the fairer figure to report; whichever you use, say which.
Neither figure counts emissions from flooding land for hydro dams, and carbon dioxide captured and stored has been taken out, as the table's notes say.
What Prince Edward Island's electricity is made from
In 2024 (preliminary), the power plants in the table generated 607 GWh in Prince Edward Island. The share from coal, gas and oil is what moves the factor from year to year.
| Source | GWh, 2024 | Share of generation |
|---|---|---|
| Wind, solar and tidal | 605 | 99.7% |
Generation by source from the same table (Table A7–3). Wind, solar and tidal is the table's "Other Renewables".
Worked example
Take an office or small warehouse in Prince Edward Island using 100,000 kWh a year. 100,000 kWh × 0.0032 kg CO2e = 0.3 tonnes CO2e, reported as Scope 2 (location-based). With the consumption intensity instead, 100,000 kWh × 0.265 kg CO2e = 26.5 tonnes CO2e.
How to use it
Multiply each site's electricity use in kWh for the year by the figure for the same year, and report the result as location-based Scope 2 under the GHG Protocol. Prince Edward Island's figure is below the Canadian national average (102 g CO2e per kWh in 2024), so using the national figure for a site here would overstate its emissions. If the site buys renewable electricity backed by certificates, you can also show a market-based figure, but keep the location-based one alongside it.
Common mistakes: reading grams as kilograms (divide g by 1,000 for kg); adding a separate grid-loss figure on top of the consumption intensity, which counts the losses twice; and treating a preliminary year as final. These are the figures ECCC uses for Canada's national greenhouse gas inventory. Some provinces publish their own figures for particular schemes (British Columbia does, for example), and where a provincial programme, lender or customer names a specific figure, use that one. Carbon Recycling is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Government of Canada.
UK companies with an office, warehouse or plant in Prince Edward Island should use this figure for that site and keep the UK government grid electricity factor for their UK sites. Businesses based in Canada can use it the same way for each province they operate in.
Where to find your kWh
Your electricity bills, or your utility's online account, show the kWh used in each billing period; add up the periods that fall in your reporting year. If the landlord pays the bill, ask them for the meter readings or the site's share of the building's use. Use each site's own province: a business with sites in several provinces needs a figure for each.
Related emission factors
- New Brunswick electricity: 362 g CO2e per kWh (2024 (preliminary))
- Nova Scotia electricity: 586 g CO2e per kWh (2024 (preliminary))
- Newfoundland and Labrador electricity: 16.0 g CO2e per kWh (2024 (preliminary))
- Every Canadian province and territory
- Canada national grid average
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