Electric utility thermal plants in Canada largely use natural gas, coal and petroleum products as the main fuel sources in 2021. The cost for generating power from natural gas from thermal plants totaled some 1.56 billion Canadian dollars in that year. By comparison, coal's cost amounted to roughly 592 million Canadian dollars.
Cost of electric power generation from utility thermal plants in Canada in 2021, by fuel (in 1,000 Canadian dollars)
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StatCan. (November 16, 2022). Cost of electric power generation from utility thermal plants in Canada in 2021, by fuel (in 1,000 Canadian dollars) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved June 10, 2024, from https://internal.statista.com/statistics/1066655/cost-fuel-electric-power-generation-canada-by-fuel/
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