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Table 5 Collected harvest residues for bioenergy, energy demand, transportation distances and displacement factors for community-level

From: Climate change mitigation in Canada’s forest sector: a spatially explicit case study for two regions

Communities

Northing (°)

Westing (°)

Populationa

Electricity demand (GWh)

Heat demand (GWh)

Residues (kodt)

Selected facilities

Average transportation distance ± standard deviation (km) and [% paved]

Displacement factor (tC/tC)

Cranbrook

49.51549

115.7589

19,613

292.8

5 CHP, 6H

67.7

165.0

39 ± 16; [54%]

0.57

Kimberley

49.6871

115.9829

6576

130.6

1 CHP, 5H

22.1

54.9

31 ± 14; [14%]

0.66

Fernie

49.50676

115.0688

4479

103.4

1 CHP, 2H, 5E

60.4

46.6

65 ± 25; [65%]

0.23

Sparwood

49.73262

114.8919

3804

73.6

4H

3.5

32.1

41 ± 17; [60%]

0.58

Elkford

50.01225

114.9303

2520

50.6

3H

9.4

20.0

31 ± 16; [18%]

0.62

Thunder Bay (outskirts)

48.6748

89.8933

129,561

1678.7

3357.4

31.5

5 CHP, 1H

76 ± 28 [70%]

1.0

  1. aNote that not all of the population is within the five communities