The industry group, Earth Energy Society of Canada, produced a report for the David Suzuki Foundation that explained how a GreenTherms Standard for new residential construction in Ontario could avoid the combustion of 1 billion m3 of natural gas a year by 2020.
The Green Heat Partnership reports that CO2 emissions from all coal-fired power generating plants in Canada are lower than the national emissions from space conditioning (applications that can be met by geothermal heat pumps, solar thermal and bioheating).