Question:
I have a researcher who is working on the Ontario Green Energy Act (2009).
He is looking for data (as detailled as possible) about :
- Investments in the green/renewable economy in Ontario since 2009
- Number of jobs in the green/renewable economy in Ontario since 2009
I expected to find a lot of information about this but it is not the case at all! I must say I am not very familiar with ontarian sources.
I have searched Statistics Canada website and DLI. All I could find is this table, which does not show data for the provinces : https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/cv.action?pid=3610041101
Would a custom table be an option? Did I missed anything else?
I have searched on Ontario's government websites (ontario.ca, Ministry of Energy, open data catalogue…) . I found a couple of reports like the Long-term Energy plan or the Auditor General report but they only give estimate or vague numbers without any details (examples: "more than 20 000 jobs", "tens of thousands of jobs").
Answer:
Response from Subject Matter:
“Unfortunately right now we don’t have any provincial level data but we are working on it. Provincial Environmental and Clean Technology Products Economic Account (ECTPEA) should be released sometime in Winter 2020 and it would have information on the number of ECTPEA jobs in Ontario, and while there would not be any pure investment figures, they could look at the time series of GDP growth for Ontario and determine whether investments undertaken by the provincial government are having an impact on output.
They could also contact environment to talk to them about the Survey of Environmental Goods and Services, the 2017 release discusses jobs within the companies surveyed, but it is a subset of what is found in ECTPEA, but it would be something available now and they have a provincial component.”
