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0 pointsReason0774y ago0 comments

> "We have a mix of very cold and warm weather, so are consuming lots of energy for heating in winter"

Are heat pumps / electric heating widely used in Quebec yet? When I lived in Ontario, despite having a very clean grid (nuclear, hydro, wind) and relatively low electricity prices, pretty much every house/building had oil or gas heating. Seems like Scandinavia and Northern Europe are a bit further along in electrification of heating.

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JamisonM4y ago

Oil heating's days are essentially over.

Still lots of natural gas heating though.

There is a lot of room for greening at the point of service through geothermal and the like, lots of room for efficiency improvements too. The economic incentives are aligned as well, every ounce of savings in-province means export dollars in on green energy exports.

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JamisonM4y ago

Oil heating's days are essentially over.

Still lots of natural gas heating though.

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