In much of Europe and China the progress being made on renewables is awesome to see. In contrast, Canadian and American decision-makers seem hellbent on stymying this continent's transition to renewables
It's because we're more beholden to corporate interests that our welfare here.
Three monopolies pretending to be a country. Fossil fuels, telecoms, groceries.
Society’s goal should be self-sufficiency, not sales.”
FTFH
While I agree with this, the majority in our society (and definitely that participate here) do not.
Yeah it’s sad
Works in Ontario. A friend of mine generates 2x to 4x more power than he uses. He had a 10k kW solar roof put in, it faces south, and the pitch of his roof was actually optimized for power output in the winter. His heat is propane, which isn't optimal from an environmental aspect, but it's modern and otherwise power-efficient.
And he gets paid for it? A lot of times you end up giving power away for free.
Ontario had a program called micro FIT (feed in tariff) to encourage people to generate electricity. It paid higher than the going rate for electricity and was a really good deal if you could install solar. I think it was capped at 10 kW systems, but wasn't dependent on your own usage. New sign ups ended years ago, but the existing contracts were something like 20 years.
Now the best you can get in Ontario are credits that expire in a year.
Yeah, my buddy was under microFIT - he missed the deadline for 80c/kWh, but got into the program that pays him 40c/kWh.
“Shit, getting close to my daily cap, better turn off the sun.”
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