Date: 2021-05-04 02:01 pm (UTC)
brin_bellway: forget-me-not flowers (0)
From: [personal profile] brin_bellway
>>If I was willing to go for 60-watt equivalent (uses 9 watts) and "soft white", I could get a 4-pack for $5.

Nice. American dollars are larger than Canadian dollars, but that's still a lot cheaper. Maybe I'll pick up a pack or two of lightbulbs next time I'm in New York.

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>>I have to have plenty of light and obviously be running my workstation, on-peak hours or not.

Because of the big rise in work-from-home, Ontario recently instituted a policy where households can choose between time-of-use billing and tiered billing (X cents/kWh for the first Y kWh each month, Z cents/kWh thereafter).

When I heard that, I got out the electric bills from 2020. I did the math, and we'd have saved about $40 if we'd been on tiered pricing for 2020 (well, 2020 usage but current rates, in an effort to model the future), despite our best efforts at load-shifting.

But I kind of like that our incentives are aligned with the people trying not to have to fire up the backup natural-gas-powered plants (base load is mostly hydro and some nuclear around here, pretty low-carbon), and I expect more load-shifting opportunities in the future as we (probably) electrify our heating and dryer and maybe even our car. I'm thinking I won't bring tiered pricing up with my family.
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