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> would have consumed 2.5 million megawatt-hours of electricity each year. Just to give some level of scale to this request, this is half the annual generation
by MattGaiser 3y ago
> would have consumed 2.5 million megawatt-hours of electricity each year.
Just to give some level of scale to this request, this is half the annual generation of the new $16 billion Site C dam. They are demanding the use of $8 billion in public infrastructure.
- jeffwask 3y agoWe need to start heavily regulating unchecked industrial resource usage of public utilities like power and water. There needs to be a penalty/incentive for conservation.
- MattGaiser 3y agoYou can regulate it pretty easily with appropriate pricing. The problem is that plenty of jurisdictions are willing to price industrial rates quite low for the sake of jobs and jurisdictions are in competition for those. So "wasteful" is largely determined, as far as the government is concerned, by whether a lot of jobs are produced.
- abdullahkhalids 3y agoIt's not easy. Obviously, different industries have differing abilities in how much they can conserve. So, naturally your penalty/incentive structure has to be customized per industry to make it effective. But that immediately leads to rich industrialists to start lobbying (read bribing) politicians to help their industry more than other industries. It's not clear if the country becomes richer by giving the government this type of regulatory power.