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Old Posted Jul 6, 2016, 3:58 PM
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Originally Posted by roger1818 View Post
It isn't clear where the money to subsidize the night time charging will come from (and it likely never will be clear). It could come from increases in hydro rates or it could come from other government revenue (taxes)
Its coming from cap and trade revenues. And as the electricity sector is exempt from paying for carbon permits (logic is that it's already done enough with the coal phase out), the cost definitely won't be coming from people's hydro bills.
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