Community Energy

Planning and Data

Introduction

This primer addresses some of the issues facing small and rural communities in Ontario when gathering data for a CEP. The primer provides information on the type of data that small and rural communities should consider gathering and identifies some of the common challenges to collecting data and how to overcome them.

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