Cara Buckley, whose bio says she “writes about people working toward climate solutions, often at the community and grass roots level, and off-the-beaten-path responses to the climate crisis.”
The article needs correcting: The article states "...this story is about heat pumps, which have invariably created massively higher energy costs and less efficient climate control everywhere they’ve been tried...". The article should/could say "...and less efficient climate control Than In Most Places they’ve been tried...". We live in British Columbia, Canada where about 90% of grid power comes from hydroelectric. The unit cost of electricity here is only 60% of the national average. We moved here from Alberta where power costs more than twice as much as in BC. Natural gas is cheap in Alberta so we heated our house with it as well as our hot water. Our electric bill in BC for house heating with a heat pump, electric hot water, all appliances and fixtures, is much lower than our electric bill was in Alberta, where we also had to pay a gas bill for our house and water heating. Alberta to BC is not exactly apples to apples because the winters in BC are milder than in Alberta. Taking that into account our total energy cost in BC is still far below what we paid in Alberta.
The article needs correcting: The article states "...this story is about heat pumps, which have invariably created massively higher energy costs and less efficient climate control everywhere they’ve been tried...". The article should/could say "...and less efficient climate control Than In Most Places they’ve been tried...". We live in British Columbia, Canada where about 90% of grid power comes from hydroelectric. The unit cost of electricity here is only 60% of the national average. We moved here from Alberta where power costs more than twice as much as in BC. Natural gas is cheap in Alberta so we heated our house with it as well as our hot water. Our electric bill in BC for house heating with a heat pump, electric hot water, all appliances and fixtures, is much lower than our electric bill was in Alberta, where we also had to pay a gas bill for our house and water heating. Alberta to BC is not exactly apples to apples because the winters in BC are milder than in Alberta. Taking that into account our total energy cost in BC is still far below what we paid in Alberta.
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