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Manufacturing Energy Use Survey


Year ended March 2006

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Highlights


  • New energy use statistics are available from the Manufacturing Energy Use Survey.

 

  • The total amount of energy used by the manufacturing industry was 151.97 petajoules (PJ).

 

  • The wood and paper product manufacturing industry was the largest user of energy, with 38 percent of the total.
  • Electricity was the energy type used in greatest quantity, at almost 35 percent of total energy use. Wood and wood waste, and natural gas, were 19 percent each.

 

  • Fifty-seven percent of businesses actively recorded and monitored energy use for the March 2006 year.






 

Dallas Welch
Acting Government Statistician
22 March 2007
Cat 73.901 Set 06/07 – 143

There is a companion Media Release published  – Manufacturing Energy Use Survey: Year ended March 2006.

 



  Manufacturing Energy Use Survey: Year ended March 2006 (pdf)



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