Saskatchewan electricity emission factor 2024 (grid intensity, g CO2e per kWh)

Saskatchewan electricity emission factor by year

Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada, National Inventory Report 2026, Annex 7, Table A7–9 ("Electricity Generation and GHG Emission Details for Saskatchewan"). 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, 581 g against 542 g for Saskatchewan.

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 Saskatchewan's electricity is made from

In 2024 (preliminary), the power plants in the table generated 24,413 GWh in Saskatchewan. The share from coal, gas and oil is what moves the factor from year to year.

Generation by source from the same table (Table A7–9). Wind, solar and tidal is the table's "Other Renewables".

Worked example

Take an office or small warehouse in Saskatchewan using 100,000 kWh a year. 100,000 kWh × 0.542 kg CO2e = 54.2 tonnes CO2e, reported as Scope 2 (location-based). With the consumption intensity instead, 100,000 kWh × 0.581 kg CO2e = 58.1 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. Saskatchewan's figure is above the Canadian national average (102 g CO2e per kWh in 2024), so using the national figure for a site here would understate 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 Saskatchewan 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

• Alberta electricity: 335 g CO2e per kWh (2024 (preliminary))
• Manitoba electricity: 2.7 g CO2e per kWh (2024 (preliminary))
• Northwest Territories electricity: 460 g CO2e per kWh (2024 (preliminary))
• Every Canadian province and territory
• Canada national grid average
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