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Shiftheads - Why Saving Energy Doesn't Always Save You Money
Canadian electricity rates are among the lowest in the world. That does not mean your bill is easy to understand or easy to reduce. Pierre-Olivier Pineau has a specific reason for that: the poles and the wires that deliver electricity to your door are a fixed cost, and those costs do not shrink when you do.
What makes this stranger is that efficiency gains have a habit of cancelling themselves out. Use less, add another device, and the grid absorbs roughly the same load it always has. Pineau calls it the rebound effect, and it is a pattern built into the way modern households actually behave…
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