Among renewables, hydro provided 58% of Canada’s 646,040 GWh of electricity last year, followed by wind (4%), biomass (2%) and solar (0.5%).

In 2005, hydro had a 59% share of 610,238 GWh of power output, wind (0.2%), biomass (1%) and nothing for solar.

During the last decade, wind added the most nameplate generation capacity - 556MW to 11,071MW, according to data in Canada’s Renewable Power Landscape: Energy Market Analysis 2016.