A Review of Nova Scotia Home Energy Prices Over Time The first step in assessing current energy affordability in Nova Scotia is to examine the historic changes in the cost of energy compared to changes in income over time. [...] Each one-fifth of the population is known as a “quintile.” The portion of the population with the lowest one-fifth of income is known as the “First Quintile” (Q1) (or sometimes referred to as the “lowest” quintile. [...] NOVA SCOTIA HOME ENERGY AFFORDABILITY 24 NOVA SCOTIA HOME ENERGY AFFORDABILITY 25 NOVA SCOTIA HOME ENERGY AFFORDABILITY 26 Home Energy Unaffordability in Nova Scotia: Disaggregated by Census Divisions: This examination of home energy unaffordability by county focuses more on the depth, than on the breadth, of unaffordability in the various areas of the province. [...] The CUSP data documents that while Nova Scotia’s Sub-Divisions have 65% of the total population of the province (232,980 of 358,065), they have only 57% of the households with high energy burdens (83,700 of 147,110); only 55% of the households with very high energy burdens (36,040 of 65,465); and only 57% of the households with extremely high energy burdens (17,460 of 30,545). [...] Rather than looking at how homes with each heating fuel are distributed over the FSAs by the FSA ranking of the penetration of unaffordability (i.e., “100%” equals the total population heating with a particular fuel), the Table below shows the penetration of home heating fuels within each quintile of FSAs ranked by the penetration of energy poverty (i.e., “100%” equals the total number of homes in.
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