In recent months, billions of public funds have rained down on foreign companies wishing to set up in Quebec to manufacture car batteries. This “battery sector” was intended to reinforce the “electrification of transportation” strategy, which serves as the Legault government’s environmental policy. In order to ensure the recharging of all these expected individual electric vehicles (cars and light trucks), there are also plans to double Hydro-Québec’s production capacity and even venture into nuclear power. But at the other end of the equation, for the population financing these projects, the electricity distribution network that supplies their homes is proving to be very fragile. There is a lack of money to bury the wires and secure this network, which fails with every gust of wind, torrential rain or winter storm. Thousands of homes are then left without electricity. In parallel with the electrification of transport, will it be necessary to develop a plan for the “motorization of residences” which provides for tax credits on gasoline generators?
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