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Old Posted Sep 11, 2019, 1:36 AM
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Originally Posted by lio45 View Post
I had no idea that Ontario was that cold. Here in Quebec, everyone has had electric baseboard heating for almost two generations now (many people alive have never known anything else - I have older buildings with hot water systems and often new tenants if they're young have no idea there are valves on these radiators) and it's perfectly fine.
Yes, but Hydro Quebec has ample cheap electricity because of the massive James Bay dams built decades ago and because of a very advantageous contracted rate for hydro electricity transmission from Labrador. Ontario electric rates are much higher because hydro electricity capacity is much lower. With base board heating in Ontario, you can spend several hundred a month in winter. I know because I am involved with a building heated with electricity. It is a completely different world west of the Ottawa River.
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