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Clean Electricity Regulations (SOR/2024-263)

Regulations are current to 2025-12-10 and last amended on 2025-01-01. Previous Versions

The following schedule is not in force.

SCHEDULE 3(Subsection 16(1) and section 17)

List of Fuels and Default Higher Heating Value

Column 1Column 2Column 3
ItemFuel typeDefault higher heating valueUnits
1Distillate fuel oil No. 138.78GJ/kL
2Distillate fuel oil No. 238.50GJ/kL
3Distillate fuel oil No. 440.73GJ/kL
4Kerosene37.68GJ/kL
5Liquefied petroleum gases (LPG)25.66GJ/kL
6PropaneFootnote for List of Fuels and Default Higher Heating Value125.31GJ/kL
7Propylene25.39GJ/kL
8Ethane17.22GJ/kL
9Ethylene27.90GJ/kL
10Isobutane27.06GJ/kL
11Isobutylene28.73GJ/kL
12Butane28.44GJ/kL
13Butylene28.73GJ/kL
14Natural gasoline30.69GJ/kL
15Motor gasoline34.87GJ/kL
16Aviation gasoline33.52GJ/kL
17Kerosene-type aviation37.66GJ/kL
18Pipeline quality natural gas0.03793GJ/m3 at standard conditions
19Bituminous Canadian coal — Western25.6GJ/tonne
20Bituminous Canadian coal — Eastern27.9GJ/tonne
21Bituminous non-Canadian coal — U.S.25.7GJ/tonne
22Bituminous non-Canadian coal — other countries29.9GJ/tonne
23Sub-bituminous Canadian coal — Western19.2GJ/tonne
24Sub-bituminous non-Canadian coal — U.S.19.2GJ/tonne
25Coal — lignite15.0GJ/tonne
26Coal — anthracite27.7GJ/tonne
27Coal coke and metallurgical coke28.8GJ/tonne
28Petroleum coke from refineries46.4GJ/tonne
29Petroleum coke from upgraders40.6GJ/tonne
30Municipal solid waste11.5GJ/tonne
31Tires31.2GJ/tonne
32Diesel38.3GJ/kL
33Light fuel oil38.8GJ/kL
34Heavy fuel oil42.5GJ/kL
35Ethanol21GJ/kL
36Hydrogen0.012289GJ/m3 at standard conditions
  • Return to footnote 1The default higher heating value for propane is only for pure gas propane. The product commercially sold as propane is to be considered LPG for the purpose of these Regulations.

 

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