#bchydro — Public Fediverse posts
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American firm looks to close B.C. plant and government might get involved
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://globalnews.ca/news/11962040/american-firm-close-bc-plant/
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Solar panels on the roof were installed at the end of May. This is my electricity consumption chart from BCHydro over the last week.
Dark blue is from last year. Light blue is this year. Excited to see how much of a difference this will make on my electric bill. #SolarPower #BCHydro #Okanagan
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Solar panels on the roof were installed at the end of May. This is my electricity consumption chart from BCHydro over the last week.
Dark blue is from last year. Light blue is this year. Excited to see how much of a difference this will make on my electric bill. #SolarPower #BCHydro #Okanagan
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BC Hydro has announced it will add 8500 gigawatt hours per year from solar and wind over two years. They will come online by 2033 and boost the capacity by 13%. Most of it with better than 50% First Nations ownership.
Site C was over $10 Billion and produces 5100GWh annually.
Also by comparison, there is no Pipeline project and no First Nations have bought Transmountain.
#BCPoli #BCHydro #Solar #Wind #Hydro #Renewables #EndFossilFuels
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BC Hydro has announced it will add 8500 gigawatt hours per year from solar and wind over two years. They will come online by 2033 and boost the capacity by 13%. Most of it with better than 50% First Nations ownership.
Site C was over $10 Billion and produces 5100GWh annually.
Also by comparison, there is no Pipeline project and no First Nations have bought Transmountain.
#BCPoli #BCHydro #Solar #Wind #Hydro #Renewables #EndFossilFuels
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The other reason I don’t use BCHydro is that I have RFID keychain tags for ChargePoint, that I can tap at the chargers to pay for the session. This can be handy if you run into a connectivity issue with the app.
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I checked. The last transaction I had with BCHydro was March 24, 2022. 🤨
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One of the things that bothers me about public EV charging is the way most companies are set up as a pre-pay system, whereby you ‘load’ your account with funds prior to charging. This means that the company is always in possession of your money for a service they have not yet provided. The best solution I’ve found was to use one provider (ChargePoint) who has reciprocal agreements with virtually every other charging provider around here (including BC Hydro) so I only have to top up one account vs. having balances with many.
Enter BCHydro. This morning I’ve received three emails from them because apparently I have an outstanding negative balance of $1.86. (This would have been because a charging session went over the available balance on my account). I went to the app, as instructed, to pay the balance but the minimum amount they will let me top up my account with is $10.
Sure, I could just pay it, and leave the $8.14 in there in perpetuity, but fuck that! Why should they get to hang onto that money?
I’ve emailed them asking them to provide another way for me to pay the outstanding balance. We’ll see how that goes…
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Charging for the drive home at the new bank of #bchydro chargers at the end of the #yyj runway in Sydney by the Sea. Awaiting the return of the son from Ottawa.
Last time I was here, @Tree 's plane flew right over us as we were charging... it was 20m early 😂
(son's flight was delayed 1.5hrs today due to "connecting passengers")
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Charging for the drive home at the new bank of #bchydro chargers at the end of the #yyj runway in Sydney by the Sea. Awaiting the return of the son from Ottawa.
Last time I was here, @Tree 's plane flew right over us as we were charging... it was 20m early 😂
(son's flight was delayed 1.5hrs today due to "connecting passengers")
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Booooooooooo
No more carbon energy!
No more blocking #bchydro from developing #greenenergy: wind solar tidal geothermal#cdnpoli #canada #mexico #fascism #antifa #antifascist #elbowsup #bcpoli #vancouver #burnabybc #canlab #bcgreens #bcndp
#climatechange #pipelines #lng #KsiLisims #epstein #blackrock #broligarchs #trump -
Booooooooooo
No more carbon energy!
No more blocking #bchydro from developing #greenenergy: wind solar tidal geothermal#cdnpoli #canada #mexico #fascism #antifa #antifascist #elbowsup #bcpoli #vancouver #burnabybc #canlab #bcgreens #bcndp
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RE: https://mstdn.ca/@thetyee/115452275309176612
We are allllllwyas subsidizing those fuckers.
24 years ago, Gordon Campbell blocked #bchydro from green energy, and the #bcndp maintains that fuckery, to the point that we could have spent the last 2 dozen years being an industrial leader in green design and economics.
The #bcndp is equally blind to climate science, & not for some kind of boon of hundreds of thousands of jobs.
#cdnpoli #canada #fascism #antifa #antifascist #elbowsup #bcpoli #vancouver #burnabybc #canlab #bcgreens #bcndp
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@Chigaze
Bit of an aside, but my CBC Podcasts at the moment are absolutely saturated by advertisements for our provincial Crown corporation, BC Hydro, who has a virtual monopoly on electricity generation in the province.Why exactly do they need to spend ratepayer’s money on advertising? 🤷♂️
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@Chigaze
Bit of an aside, but my CBC Podcasts at the moment are absolutely saturated by advertisements for our provincial Crown corporation, BC Hydro, who has a virtual monopoly on electricity generation in the province.Why exactly do they need to spend ratepayer’s money on advertising? 🤷♂️
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Humpback whales
5 minutes ago
15 minutes east of #nanaimo, from the #bcferries, on the #SalishSeaLet's end fossil fuel development in BC!
I want green: tidal, wind, solar, geothermal. If only the #BCpremier's office would stop their 24 years of preventing #bchydro from doing it? @emilylowan
#cdnpoli #canada #mexico #fascism #antifa #elbowsup #bcpoli #vancouver #burnabybc #canlab #bcgreens #bcndp #emilylowan
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British Columbia’s :flagbc: Site C hydroelectric power station able to produce more power than forecast, leading to demand for more benefits for local communities.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/site-c-could-produce-more-power-than-forecast-1.7614190
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La centrale électrique du Site C en Colombie-Britannique :flagbc: est en mesure de produire plus d’électricité que les prévisions, entraînant une demande pour davantage de retombées pour les communautés locales.// Article en anglais //
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British Columbia’s :flagbc: Site C hydroelectric power station able to produce more power than forecast, leading to demand for more benefits for local communities.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/site-c-could-produce-more-power-than-forecast-1.7614190
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La centrale électrique du Site C en Colombie-Britannique :flagbc: est en mesure de produire plus d’électricité que les prévisions, entraînant une demande pour davantage de retombées pour les communautés locales.// Article en anglais //
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heading out to #ucluelet this evening and the L2 charger at work was out of order so a quick top up at the BCH L3 charger is in order. Ill bring it up to as close to 80% as I have time for just to be safe. I may not have needed to charge at all but Mostly I just didn't want to have to charge out there :)
About 10kWh of juice. (@ $0.38/kWh).
#ev #bchydro #kona #hyundai #westcoast #portalberni -
heading out to #ucluelet this evening and the L2 charger at work was out of order so a quick top up at the BCH L3 charger is in order. Ill bring it up to as close to 80% as I have time for just to be safe. I may not have needed to charge at all but Mostly I just didn't want to have to charge out there :)
About 10kWh of juice. (@ $0.38/kWh).
#ev #bchydro #kona #hyundai #westcoast #portalberni -
More visual memories from recent multi-day sailing adventures around the #SalishSea 😊
#SailAway #CoastalBC #Adventures #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #BritishColumbia #PacificOcean #sailboat #wildlife #AbandonedPlaces #landscape #seascape #Summer #marine #nautical #LifeIsForLiving #MakingMemories #hydroelectric #BChistory #BCHydro
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More visual memories from recent multi-day sailing adventures around the #SalishSea 😊
#SailAway #CoastalBC #Adventures #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #BritishColumbia #PacificOcean #sailboat #wildlife #AbandonedPlaces #landscape #seascape #Summer #marine #nautical #LifeIsForLiving #MakingMemories #hydroelectric #BChistory #BCHydro
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And just to emphasize the point, we don’t use our car lightly.
We have gone on numerous road trips including from the Pacific to the Atlantic cross Canada in 2022. We have a hitch on the Kona that I use to pull a trailer for everthing from camping, to road trips, to hauling a yard of soil or rock.We have certainly had some maintenance costs for the Kona. Some regular (brakes, after 150,000), checkups, 12V battery twice, etc. and some self inflicted (alignment and back shocks due to trailering). Visits to the dealer are your standard $500 to $2000 affair once a year. We have a second set of rims for the winter tires. We have bought 2 new sets of tires, one winter, one all season. The all seasons will be replaced after this summer.
The main battery was replaced under recall in February 2022 (before our road trip) at about 50,000km so we have a slightly newer battery than the car but not significantly, and we have not noticed any degradation in charge life.
On this day in 2022 we were visiting Wanuskewin, Saskatchewan just outside Saskatoon on our way back. We stopped to charge in Saskatoon, North Battleford, Lloydminster and Vegreville on the way to the West Edmonton Mall that day :)
#EV #ElectricCar #cost #electricity #bchydro #bcpoli #endfossilfuels -
And just to emphasize the point, we don’t use our car lightly.
We have gone on numerous road trips including from the Pacific to the Atlantic cross Canada in 2022. We have a hitch on the Kona that I use to pull a trailer for everthing from camping, to road trips, to hauling a yard of soil or rock.We have certainly had some maintenance costs for the Kona. Some regular (brakes, after 150,000), checkups, 12V battery twice, etc. and some self inflicted (alignment and back shocks due to trailering). Visits to the dealer are your standard $500 to $2000 affair once a year. We have a second set of rims for the winter tires. We have bought 2 new sets of tires, one winter, one all season. The all seasons will be replaced after this summer.
The main battery was replaced under recall in February 2022 (before our road trip) at about 50,000km so we have a slightly newer battery than the car but not significantly, and we have not noticed any degradation in charge life.
On this day in 2022 we were visiting Wanuskewin, Saskatchewan just outside Saskatoon on our way back. We stopped to charge in Saskatoon, North Battleford, Lloydminster and Vegreville on the way to the West Edmonton Mall that day :)
#EV #ElectricCar #cost #electricity #bchydro #bcpoli #endfossilfuels -
EV Charging Cost by the Numbers.
I charge my car at home almost nightly wirh a Level 2 Flo 30A/240V charger.
I noticed today that they have added an "estimated rate" for my address based on my utility (BC Hydro) charge so that it can estimate the cost of the charging.
Their estimate is $0.11400/kWh. I drive alot. 160km a day when I am commuting to work and then 50-100km in the evening 4-5 days a week Dashing. Thanks to dashing I have a solid record of odometer readings.
We have both tiered and time of day pricing so it's complicated to do this manually. I do most of my charging during the lowest rate overnight. I have the Flo charger set to only charge at full 30A power between 11PM and 7AM to match the overnight rate, then 15A in "off peak" (standard rate) and to turn off completely during on-peak 4PM to 9PM times.
I think their estimate is quite accurate considering the overnight rate is usually $0.14 - $0.05/kWh. Ill include my latest electrical bill. (we are billed monthly)
Here are the numbers.
A "full tank" of battery is 65kWhMonthly: eg. March (full time commuting plus dashing) 4668km
30 charging sessions
853.4kWh
$97 ($2.07/100km)Last 12 months: 56,107km
8793kWh
$1,002 ($1.78/100km)There are a few free charges at work in there (15 in the year?) but any saving is eaten up by $6/day parking cost.
As a comparison if I drove our 2014 Prius C hybrid 56,000km at its general fuel mileage of 5L/100km and an average price of $1.60/L that would be $2,800. So I am saving by more than half, and probably more than that, compared to one of the best mileage hybrids out there.
It makes less and less sense to buy a gas car.
(We have 222,607km on the 2019 Hyundai Kona and about 250,000 on the Prius)
#EV #ElectricCar #cost #electricity #bchydro #bcpoli #endfossilfuels
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... and now a power outage in victoria. What a day.
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This needs attention, I believe.
https://friendica.world/display/84b6ef2b-1467-dae4-f2d3-04b271562629
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Global News BC: Tips to help reduce heating costs this winter https://globalnews.ca/news/10158581/bc-winter-heating-costs-tips/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #winterheating #FortisBC #bchydro #Canada
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Global News BC: Tips to help reduce heating costs this winter https://globalnews.ca/news/10158581/bc-winter-heating-costs-tips/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #winterheating #FortisBC #bchydro #Canada
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Global News BC: Crash sparks fire and closes Highway 1 in the Shuswap https://globalnews.ca/news/9947724/crash-sparks-fire-and-closes-highway-1-in-the-shuswap/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #Trans-CanadaHighway #salmonarmcrash #Fierycarcrash #SalmonArm #Highway1 #bchydro #Fire #RCMP
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Global News BC: BCUC orders third-party investigation into BC Hydro due to explosion https://globalnews.ca/news/9851065/bcuc-third-party-investigation-bc-hydro/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #theBritishColumbiaUtilitiesCommission #downtownVancouverexplosion #Vancouverbchydroexplosion #BCHydrovaultexplosion #BCHydroinvestigation #bchydroexplosion #Investigations #Environment #bchydro #Canada
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Global News BC: BCUC orders third-party investigation into BC Hydro due to explosion https://globalnews.ca/news/9851065/bcuc-third-party-investigation-bc-hydro/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #theBritishColumbiaUtilitiesCommission #downtownVancouverexplosion #Vancouverbchydroexplosion #BCHydrovaultexplosion #BCHydroinvestigation #bchydroexplosion #Investigations #Environment #bchydro #Canada
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Global News BC: BC Hydro decommissioning 2 electrical vaults after Vancouver explosion https://globalnews.ca/news/9561460/bc-hydro-electrical-vaults-vancouver-explosion/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #electricalvaultdecommissioning #ElectricalVaultExplosion #vancovuervaultexplosion #vancouverexplosion #bchydroexplosion #ElectricalSafety #electricalvault #Explosion #Vancouver #bchydro #Fire
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Global News BC: BC Hydro decommissioning 2 electrical vaults after Vancouver explosion https://globalnews.ca/news/9561460/bc-hydro-electrical-vaults-vancouver-explosion/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #electricalvaultdecommissioning #ElectricalVaultExplosion #vancovuervaultexplosion #vancouverexplosion #bchydroexplosion #ElectricalSafety #electricalvault #Explosion #Vancouver #bchydro #Fire
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The Tyee: BC Budget Hits Snooze on Climate Action (in News) https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/03/09/BC-Budget-Climate-Action/ #bcnews #TheTyee - via @[email protected] #BCMinistryofEnvironmentandClimateChangeStrategy #ElectricCommercialVehiclePilotsProgram #SurreyLangleySkyTrainproject #NewYorkInstituteofTechnology #BCCriticalMineralsStrategy #ClimateEmergencyUnit #EoinFinnMySeatoSky #BCEnergyStepCode #BroadwaySkyTrain #BCHydro’seDrive #RemiCharron #BCTransit #SethKlein #FortisBC #CleanBC
