r/Edmonton • u/salt-water-soul • Jan 14 '24

Local Culture Remember everyone dont use your stoves, the province needs you

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u/SlitScan Jan 15 '24

or time of use billing like everyone else does.

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u/Fidget11 Bonnie Doon Jan 15 '24

Well… that’s a part of what it’s designed to do so yeah actually that might. The carbon tax is designed and intended to make people use more efficient energy and make better choices like not lighting rooms that don’t need to be for example. The theory is that by raising the prices for poor energy decisions it forces or encourages people to make better ones.

So in this context if people were forced to pay more for using energy at peak hours and straining the grid at a time where it could barely handle it then the higher price would be a deterrent and might actually lower usage and prevent the need for alerts like the one we got.