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Gotta love our electricity state monopoly in Quebec. You can say many bad things about it, but planning correctly for expanding demand is not one of it. And pri

by Sytten 3y ago

Gotta love our electricity state monopoly in Quebec. You can say many bad things about it, but planning correctly for expanding demand is not one of it. And price, still the cheapest electricity in North America. One thing lots of people miss is you have to invest in reducing demand for heating by subsidising good practices like heat pump and renovations. This is what a state monopoly can do even if the government doesn't want to invest.

cool_dude85 3y ago
Few places in North America have the type of hydro capacity that Quebec does, and nowadays new build hydro isn't generally considered "green" anyway due to environmental destruction.
- xenadu02 3y ago
  All useful hydro sites have been used at this point. There just aren't any places left to build large hydro dams. The ones being removed are all older facilities that mostly don't produce much power.
- Sytten 3y ago
  That kind of is my point about demand reduction...
konschubert 3y ago
This is because Quebec has hydro.