Alberta Unplugged 𧡠/9
One of those fun features of our #EnergyOnly market that literally designs those price spikes you're now paying at historic levels is #EconomicWithholding, which enables utilities to create scarcity & charge you more when you need them most
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-electricity-economic-withholding-1.6946797
#abpoli #EnergyStorage #EnergyGrid #DanielleSmith #DanielleSmithIsUnfitToLead #ClimateChange
Alberta's electricity market can be a complicated subject β what consumers generally understand this year is that prices for electricity have soared and one of the main reasons is something called 'economic withholding.'
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Then energy minister (and later somehow equally catastrophic as Alberta's Environment and Protected Areas Minister) #SonyaSavage described those price spikes you're now paying at historic levels as "a necessary and desirable feature" of Alberta's #EnergyOnly market.
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