Electricity demand in Québec

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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.

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

Additional information

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
Notices and conditions of use: The information provided represents raw data, comes without a guarantee of quality and is subject to change without notice.

Dataset Identifier

demande-electricite-quebec

Downloads

31,045

Themes

Electricity consumption

License

CC BY-NC 4.0

Language

French

Timezone

America/Toronto

Modified

May 1, 2025 4:00 PM

Publisher

Hydro-Québec

Reference

https://www.hydroquebec.com/data/documents-donnees/donnees-ouvertes/json/demande.json

Update frequency

Continuous

Territory

Last processing

May 1, 2025 4:00 PM (metadata)

May 1, 2025 4:00 PM (data)

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date

date and time the measurement was taken

No description available for this field.

Name (identifier)	date
Type	datetime
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demandeTotal

total electricity demand in megawatts (MW)

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Name (identifier)	valeurs_demandetotal
Type	decimal
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JSON Schema

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