The electricity sector in Canada is a majority of government-owned integrated public utilities that now uses hydroelectricity as the main power source but in 2010 it was coal and wood.
In a majority of provinces, large government-owned integrated public utilities play a leading role in the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity. Hydroelectricity accounted for 60% of all electric generation in Canada in 2018, making Canada the world's third-largest producer of hydroelectricity after China and Brazil. Since 1960, large hydroelectric projects, especially in Quebec, British Columbia, Manitoba, and Newfoundland and Labrador, have significantly increased the country's generation capacity. Electricity generated from fuels by thermal plants, by province or territory, 2010 Coal Wood 
