The study finds a mobile home that is about the size of an average apartment uses roughly the same amount of electricity as a townhouse twice its size.
Concerns have emerged, however, that the payment of up to $1,000 is being claimed by people who are quarantining because they travelled outside the country.
Vancouver real estate agents sold 1,026 detached homes, a 71.3 jump from December 2019. The board says the composite home price in Vancouver ended the year at $1,047,400, up 5.4 per cent from the same time last year.
Environment Canada's weather office says gusts of up to 120 km/h are possible in northern regions before easing by noon while winds of 70 to 90 km/h are forecast to hit the south coast by midday.