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Originally Posted by Kamper
But, the terms 'grid' and 'power pool' are used for reasons. Using NP to provide power elsewhere frees up power in the pool for other areas including ours. In the event our supply lines are disrupted there is the capability to route some of Hydro Quebec's power to other areas.
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True, but it's also true that we could get much more energy security by reducing consumption. Our recent move has really opened my eyes on this front.
In Mass, we just went from a 30 year old poorly insulated house with oil heat to a new well-insulated home with electric heat pump inverters. The new place is 2/3's of the size of the old. Our combined oil and heat bills have fallen by 2/3's! Further, we're about to install solar, and those numbers look great too.
So we still need the grid, but with no tree-hugging, sweater-wearing and shivering sacrifice, we're going to end up reducing our utility bills by something like 90%.
I wish we had woken up earlier. We should have insulated the old place 20 years ago and added some Mitsubishi inverters when they became available.