Moving to America despite hating it
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Re: Moving to America despite hating it
Caithness has to be more despicable than Chinatown. https://www.google.com/search?tbm=is...gdii=_&imgrc=_
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Re: Moving to America despite hating it
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The only statement I found about Caithness is the following.
The wind farm was built by Caithness Energy using General Electric (GE) 2.5 MW wind turbines, and it supplies electricity to Southern California Edison
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Re: Moving to America despite hating it
That's one of the advantages for Canada but refining Canadian crude instead of Venezuelan crude doesn't create any jobs in the US. However converting the refineries to process light crude may produce more jobs since more WTI crude can be processed which may be an incentive for more fracking production in the US. The US fracking producers also want a place to get world market crude prices instead of being bottled necked in the Midwest.
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Re: Moving to America despite hating it
You may not use natural gas but natural gas drives most power plants. Therefore natural gas prices are normally reflected in electricity prices.
The following is the comparison of different ways for heating for the Northeast. As you can see, electricity is the most expensive way to heat a home and natural gas it the cheapest. However the North east is one of the higher regions for natural gas so for California and texas, the price should be significantly lower at about the 2/3rds the cost for the same usuage.
As you can see the wellhead price is about the same as 15 years ago but residential prices are up in California.
The following is the comparison of different ways for heating for the Northeast. As you can see, electricity is the most expensive way to heat a home and natural gas it the cheapest. However the North east is one of the higher regions for natural gas so for California and texas, the price should be significantly lower at about the 2/3rds the cost for the same usuage.
As you can see the wellhead price is about the same as 15 years ago but residential prices are up in California.
Luckily we have cheap electricity in BC, so heating by electric is pretty cheap compared to most places.
EnergyBC: Where British Columbia gets its Electricity
The LNG plants they want to build here is for exporting natural gas to Asian markets, and not for domestic use.
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Re: Moving to America despite hating it
I know a lot of power plants rely on natural gas. However in BC natural gas is not a large player in the electric generation business, water is. 90% of our electricity is generated by water, but we do have some natural gas generation.
Luckily we have cheap electricity in BC, so heating by electric is pretty cheap compared to most places.
EnergyBC: Where British Columbia gets its Electricity
The LNG plants they want to build here is for exporting natural gas to Asian markets, and not for domestic use.
Luckily we have cheap electricity in BC, so heating by electric is pretty cheap compared to most places.
EnergyBC: Where British Columbia gets its Electricity
The LNG plants they want to build here is for exporting natural gas to Asian markets, and not for domestic use.
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Electric heating is never cheap. You may pay little per month for heating but you live in an apartment and radiant heat from other units, walls between units, and possibly units above or below make it so you not have to heat. When I was in Minnesota for about 6 months on business during the winter, we stayed in an apartment and we never turned on the heat. In fact the unit was so warm, we opened the windows to cool it down during the night. Minnesota is so cold in the winter that the complex heated it's hallways and that was enough to heat apartments.
But electric rates are not high 7 cents kWh for the first 1,300 kWh or so.
Older houses you will still find all electric in many areas in BC where natural gas wasn't available when built and the owners have never paid to be connected.
For my size home electric is not pricey at all, its on November to March generally.
Not as cold as Minnesota though, we stay around 0-7C most days with only a couple weeks under 0C long term.