Solar will have to come a long way to be worth it here. As for the hydro thing, don't want to make this a big electricity debate, but...
(it's from HydroQubec, BC's got one but doesn't list as many)
And as Kevin said, .57 is pretty normal in Europe, which is double anything shown here.
as for the rate increase,it's now only 16%,so pretty cheap.
http://www.bchydro.com/news/articles...w_message.html