@taco heat-pump systems are not huge users of electricity, usually on a 20A or 15A circuit.
A more realistic threat to grids is 80A EV chargers.
Both are going to happen.
Provincial regulators just need to change some regulations to prevent utilities from charging infrastructure like transformer upgrades to any residential property that's requesting a normal 200A or 300A service. The upgrade costs have to go into the system as a whole.
@johnefrancis you aren’t paying attention.
The power grids are telling us, very clearly, that the supply isn’t there. We will have shortfalls in bad weather without installing a bunch of heat pumps, which, again: aren’t sufficient for Canadian northern winters.
@taco the idea is to move forward, fix the grid. Not to pretend that distribution and supply can't be fixed and work backwards to a false conclusion that homes need to continue heating with oil.
So much fossil fuel industry+govt disinformation is based on working backwards to those false conclusions that invariably keep the fossil fuel industry alive.
Grid capacity and supply grows all the time, and it's always managed to meet demand.
Look at the mental gymnastics of CCS!
@johnefrancis and what does any of that, whatsoever, have to do with the current state of the grid?
We can’t fix heating until we have the supply, which again: isn’t there currently.
Take a look at the Atlantic grid. Tell me exactly where it can be grown quickly at scale, without distribution challenges.
The simple fact is that if we did it now the grid would fail, and there is no natural gas distribution to back stop.
@johnefrancis If you want to be one of Guinea pigs that freezes to death in -40 120+kmh winds because the grid failed, that’s on you.
But don’t expect others to.
@taco that's alarmist BS, nothing is going to be done faster than the grid and supply can adjust, nobody is going to have any retail supply issues any different than they have today. It's a 5A difference per house! People have added more than that in unplanned phone chargers over the last 10y and it wasn't the end of the world.
It's a fantasy excuse to try to delay change on behalf of the NS oil industry and make them a few more bucks.
Taco
John Francis