Electricity - maybe, at least in the short term. However our imports have been going down on that front, and I believe Canada imports nearly as much from us...
The electricity will sort itself out... its just fucky wucky up there by the borders, for instance the US is connected to Hydro Quebec. there is about 30 major interconnections. In 2016 Canada exported about 60TWh to the US but in 2023 thats down to just 15, with many months of the year in 2024 the US is actually a net exporter to Canada instead.
It has previously been advantageous to have both grids connected like this to share ebbs and flows in supply demand, but when the US is starting to actually net-export back to Canada, it wont matter as they start firing up more power, including nuclear production, in the states.
The 15TWh net imported in the US only powers 1.4m homes. The US has 128 ish million. So basically just one percent, if electricity only powered houses. A lot of it is powering industry, data centers, shopping etc etc. Its just a drop in the bucket for the US. Its a far bigger deal for Canada, as they only even have 15M homes to begin with. we would be dropping 10%. To Canada its worth about $700 million dollars. The US loses that kind of money in the couch cushions.
For the past 5 ish years or so Canada and the US have produced pretty stable electricity numbers. Canada produces about 635TWh per year. The US? 4,200TWh
The 15Twh or so Canada is maybe exporting to the US (could be less as Canada's been net importing more lately) is nothing. The US would have to increase electricity production by 0.3% The exporting is just a matter of convivence since the US allowed them to connect to their grid.
'll be honest, I never knew this was a thing. In fact over the last few years I've known of landlords (both single housing managed by individuals and multi-unit managed by companies) who required their tenants to choose a specific ISP. Did this rule ever take effect? Personally I feel repealing it is a poor decision.
The landlord should have the right to disallow service to their property, and the ability to switch be a feature of the market. I've seen properties that have been absolutely raped by tenants switching back and forth, and they end up with cables run haphazardly, two sets of outlets shoddily chopped into walls due to the new service refusing to use the old services setup etc. and then it costs the property owner to bring in an electrician to undo all the fuckery, fix all the holes etc. Its not the same as switching your cell phone number to a new carrier. Its fairly intrusive modifications done by people who dont give a fuck.
Sure a big corpo could setup a multitenant building with a patch room in every basement/utility room to allow a coordinated and approved switch between the two...but it really fucks over smaller landlords something fierce. the fiber providers (think FIOS) are the worse with how they install the endpoint just screwed to a wall above an outlet.
That said, good money to be made un-fucking peoples houses as an independent if anyone's so inclined. i have a friend who's an independent and gets contracted by both the companies in the area.. and he shits them up per their instructions. Then gives the property manager his card and they pay them to come unfuck everything when the landlord wants it fixed.
