Natural Resources committee  It will help you and us to save time in terms of trying to build the data ourselves that are supposed to come from official sources. Especially if it comes already supported in Excel or other files, everything would be easier, because we can write scripts to import these data aut

Natural Resources committee  The U.S. has a lot more data than we do regarding the stock of technology, so that would be good if we could have the same, yes. What the U.S. EIA doesn't have is what the international agency is trying to do with IRENA, the renewable energy agency based in the Emirates: technolo

Natural Resources committee  Yes, that's necessary as well because this is the way we start. I always, personally, prefer to start with national data sources that cover all provinces first, even if there is a lot of missing information, and then I complete the national with provincial sources. At least, I st

Natural Resources committee  Yes. Transparency is also something we have discussed and heard a lot about. It's a real need. For us, it would also be a good way to say that our models are documented, because right now we grab information here and there from so many data sources that each time someone asks me

Natural Resources committee  It is happening at different levels. Sometimes I think it's happening because some organizations finish their data updates sooner than others. For example, the office of energy efficiency relies on StatsCan data, but StatsCan may update their data faster, so for the same oil cons

Natural Resources committee  Yes, between provinces and at the national level.

Natural Resources committee  We could. We didn't include it in the TEF project, but our models can do that. Normally we work in collaboration with people who have better models for dealing with this issue particularly, but we use their supply curve for sequestration as a potential in our models.

Natural Resources committee  I know less about this area, but I'm sure it's also an issue, because we take the output of other models for that particular sector.

Natural Resources committee  It depends on the data. All wind and solar power plants are documented in Canada. That's not a problem. However, the energy balance that Statistics Canada is providing for all types of energy—so starting from production, import, export, conversion to energy, and end-use sector—I

Natural Resources committee  It would be a comprehensive energy balance, by province, to start with. We don't have any alternatives. We try to fill the Xs by looking at the past. The Xs are not always in the same place year after year. Our friends and colleagues from whatIf? Technologies, have a simulation m

Natural Resources committee  It's really crucial for many reasons. We are not the only ones doing modelling in Canada. There are other very good modelling teams, and they have the same problem. On top of the modellers, there are all the energy analysts. We had a few meetings on the academic campus of the Uni

Natural Resources committee  Thank you again for inviting us here. The point we want to make about the current state and future of national energy data is obviously in relation to our modelling activities, which are our core activities. Models, in fact, are great tools to support policy-making, but they ar