Electricity demand in Québec

Description

All of Hydro-Québec’s data on electricity demand in Québec in megawatts. Updated every 15 minutes, the data shows the variations in daily electricity needs based on the time of day.

• Visit the Québec hydropower: clean, renewable and low in GHG emissions page for an example of how this dataset is used.
• For historical data, consult the History of electricity demand in Québec page.

Files or services

Electricity demand in Québec (JSON file) [in French only]

Useful information for interpreting the data

Electricity demand in Québec is calculated in real time by Hydro‑Québec’s system control centre [in French only].

Description of labels

The files can contain text data (e.g., Montréal), numerical data (e.g., 2021‑05‑21) or geometric data (e.g., 46°48'44"). They are organized based on labels, which correspond to categories. The labels and their descriptions are provided below.

• date (numerical): date and time the measurement was taken
• demandeTotal (numerical): total electricity demand in megawatts (MW)

Additional information

• Editor/Author: Hydro‑Québec
• Update frequency: 15 minutes
• Language: French
• Geographic coverage: province of Québec, except regions supplied by off-grid systems
• Temporal coverage: Daily
• Initial distribution: 2021-05-01
• Licence: Creative Commons CC‑BY‑NC 4.0
• Notices and conditions of use: The information provided represents raw data, comes without a guarantee of quality and is subject to change without notice.