Canada
ECCC Emission Factors and Reference Values v4.0
Canada's official grid electricity factors, province by province, for 2023 through 2027.
13
provinces and territories
4
releases, 2023–2027
52
values, each checked twice
AR5
GWP basis, already applied
Overview
ECCC's Emission Factors and Reference Values document supports Canada's federal offset system. Section 4.2 publishes grid electricity consumption intensity for every province and territory, derived from Canada's National Inventory Report.
Canada has no single national grid figure worth using: Quebec's hydro-dominated grid is around 1.9 g CO₂e/kWh while Nunavut's diesel grid is about 800 in the same year. So the facility's province picks the factor, and a Canadian site with no province recorded is not priced at all.
At a glance
- Publisher
- Environment and Climate Change Canada
- Code in Slate
CA_ECCC- Covers
- Grid electricity consumption intensity for 13 provinces and territories
- Publishing schedule
- Annually, after each April National Inventory Report. Version 4.0 was published 9 September 2026.
- Bulk download
- Permitted by the licence, from the publisher
Official files
These go straight to the publisher, never to a copy hosted by Slate. Where a page holds several files, the note names the exact one Slate imports.
- Get file
Data fileEn84-294-2026-eng.pdf, Version 4.0
Published 9 Sep 2026. The citable PDF, 30 pages. A browser notice appears before the download.
- Open
Landing pageEmission factors and reference values (web page)
Published 9 Sep 2026.
Releases in Slate
A release is one immutable published edition. Slate keeps the publisher's file unmodified, records its checksum, and selects a release by the date of each activity, so a 2022 record is always priced on 2022 data.
| Release | Edition | Valid for | Values | Blank | CO₂e | GWP basis | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada ECCC 2023-24 (Table 5.1) | electricity | 1 Jan 2023 – 31 Dec 2024 | 13 | 0 | Pre-calculated CO₂e | IPCC AR5 100yr | Active |
| Canada ECCC 2025 (Table 5.2) | electricity | 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025 | 13 | 0 | Pre-calculated CO₂e | IPCC AR5 100yr | Active |
| Canada ECCC 2026 (Table 5.3) | electricity | 1 Jan 2026 – 31 Dec 2026 | 13 | 0 | Pre-calculated CO₂e | IPCC AR5 100yr | Active |
| Canada ECCC 2027 (Table 5.4) | electricity | 1 Jan 2027 – 31 Dec 2027 | 13 | 0 | Pre-calculated CO₂e | IPCC AR5 100yr | Active |
What Slate uses it for
Scope 2 electricity in Canada
Location-based grid intensity for the facility's province or territory, for the transaction's year.
How Slate handles it
The decisions that change numbers, and why they were made the way they were.
- 01
Grid losses are already inside
Consumption intensity includes transmission and distribution losses, so Slate writes no separate T&D row for ECCC. Adding one would count the losses twice.
- 02
The province is required
A Canadian facility with no province gets an error naming the facility, never a neighbouring province's value.
- 03
Order your sources carefully
EPA's electricity chain ends at the US national average for any site it can't place. An organisation that lists US EPA before Canada ECCC would price Canadian sites at the US figure. Slate's settings warn about this.
- 04
Only Section 4.2 is imported
The document also covers fuel combustion, biogas and methane destruction for the offset protocols. Slate doesn't use those tables.
Check a figure yourself
- 1
Open the v4.0 PDF and go to Tables 5.1–5.4.
- 2
Find the province and year. Values are g CO₂e per kWh consumed.
- 3
Divide by 1,000 to compare with Slate's kg/kWh factor.
Where to find the reference
Every calculated record in Slate has a provenance panel showing the release, the publisher's own row reference and the GWP set applied. See Calculated Emissions & Errors.
Licence and attribution
- Licence
- Open Government Licence – Canada
- Attribution
- Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.