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How are people with heat pumps faring? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 2 years ago by NotAnArdvark@lemmy.ca to c/alberta@lemmy.ca
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With the cold weather I was hoping to hear of some experiences people have had with their heat pumps.

What kind of backup heat do you have? Are you using it? Is there some temperature where you just stop using the heat pump, or are you even consciously thinking about it?

Thanks!

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[–] NotAnArdvark@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

My concern is the entire grid - in Alberta at least.

Whenever it's really cold or really hot out our grid pretty much maxes out and if that happens to coincide with a calm day, I think we're in trouble.

It's cold out - lets all watch the price of electricity hit $999/MWh this evening and think about whether we'd be comfortable if a couple thousand Albertans had to suddenly turn on their resistive heating: http://ets.aeso.ca/