Ouch.... Our nominal 'rate' here is 10.5 c/kwh for residential use. If you have a thermal electric heating system they'll put you on a smart meter with time rates for off peak hours that are probably around 6 cents at night and 12 cents during peak hours... or something like that. We're just on standard rate... Then there's a base charge of 60 odd bucks per period (2 months)... so depending on how much one uses we average out around 15-16 cents per kwh total. I'd hardly call us economical... usage is usually 40-45 kwh per day. At 19 cents you must have one of the highest rates in the country?
As far as I know we don't have any amount of solar in nova scotia other than a bit of residential in-feed. There's getting to be quite a bit of wind now... but IIRC, they still will only pay them the same rate as they assign cost to their thermal plants. They have some jet turbine back up's but those seldom get used. I heard a figure for cost there... and I forget what it was exactly... mabey 45 cents or so. Thermal I think the deem around 4.5 or something. They may pay a bit more for wind at times if they're using it for peaking. I not really sure how those contracts are written. The only real scam they have here is a community infeed tariff (COMFIT) and for that they pay 17.5 cents... but that's a pretty limited thing with the odd digester here and there, a steam plant fired by hog fuel at Hawkesbury and the odd small wind turbine. Our hydro resources are pretty limited in NS... mabey 400 MW at most. We're just waiting for the cable to cross the gulf now. That's going to bring about 500 MW and I suspect will close their primary thermal plant the day after it arrives.
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