Fossil-fuel electric power generation
This Canadian industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in the generation of electricity using fossil fuels (coal, gas, oil) in internal combustion or combustion-turbine conventional steam processes. — Statistics Canada, NAICS 2022A
- Establishments · CanadaA
- 85
- Under 10 employeesA
- 36%
- Establishments · USA
- 1,799
- Employment · USA
- 66,913
- Payroll · USA
- $8.8B
Size and shape
How many businesses there are and how small they are. Fragmentation is the first thing an entrant — or anyone selling software into this industry — needs to know, and it is one of the few things that is actually measured.
Canadian establishments by number of employeesA
Of 85 Canadian establishments with employees, 36% have fewer than ten — an industry where large establishments carry real weight.
Where they areA
Largest four provinces by establishment count. Establishments with employees only — sole operators with no payroll are not in this table, so in trades and personal services the true number of businesses is higher.
Measured, not forecast: the share of US establishments opening in one year that were still active later. It counts good operators and bad ones together, which is exactly why it is the honest answer to “what are the odds”. It is for the whole sector rather than this market, and the ten-year figure comes from an older cohort because no younger one has reached ten years.
How businesses here compete
The structural profile of subsector 221, which every industry beneath it inherits. This is analyst judgment from how the subsector is organised — not research into this industry, and not a measurement.
Regulated monopoly or near it. The openings are at the edge — independent generation, water and wastewater operations, services sold to utilities.
- Who sets the price
- Regulators, through rate cases; merchant generators take the pool price.
- The software it runs on
- Billing and customer information systems, metering, outage and asset management — long procurement cycles, few vendors.
Market screens and studies
Market-entry records filed along this branch of the hierarchy. A record at or beneath this code is about this industry; one above it is about something wider that contains it.
Screened one level up. Nothing is filed at this exact code; the screen for 22111 Electric power generation covers it.
Software serving this industry
The vertical software markets filed along the same branch — who sells to these businesses and who they would have to displace — and then the generic categories every business buys whatever it does.
Sold across the wider branch
And what every business buys · 25 generic categories
Sold to every industry rather than this one, so they are filed against the software industry's own code. The same few vendors recur across most of them.
Who works here
The occupations employed in Utilities, most concentrated in it first. The share is measured against the whole sector, not this industry — the published cross-tabulation stops there.
Concentrated in this sectorA
These jobs are mostly done here. An operator in this industry is competing for them against others in the same industry, not against the whole economy.
And the jobs every business has
Found across at least fourteen of the twenty sectors. In a small establishment several of these are usually one person, or an outside provider.
Alongside this industry
This is the most specific level NAICS defines. The other industries under 22111 are its nearest neighbours.
| Code | Industry | Establishments · CA | What is known |
|---|---|---|---|
| 221111 | Hydro-electric power generation | 168 | screened at 22111 |
| 221113 | Nuclear electric power generation | 9 | screened at 22111 |
| 221119 | Other electric power generation | 233 | Renewable Energy & Solar Project Software |