[monkeybutton]

Most government or government-adjacent (sépaq, Hydro Québec) websites are pretty decent. There's a few awful exceptions like the SAAQ disabling their online services at 11pm, as if their servers need to go to bed? Or the city of Longueuil's tax portal which looks like it is from the 90s!

[Sanzig]

Hydro Québec lets me download a CSV of my energy usage for my own analytics if I want. I find that pretty neat.

[belval]

Hydro-Québec is a weird (but great!) example of government intervention in utility. We get the lowest prices and the company is overall well run.

[monkeybutton]

On the topic of Hydro Québec, there's just something about the scale of turning the fifth largest asteroid impact crater into a reservoir for hydroelectricity that is awe inspiring. Why don't we see those sorts of aspirational mega projects for the greater good in Canada anymore?

[nikisweeting]

Yesss. I'm a huge fan of Hydro Quebec :D https://github.com/pirate/quebec-power-grid-talk

[belval]

I think the stars have to be aligned for a project like that to work. You need buy-in from first-nations, a charismatic PM that won't get thorn apart for spending prodigious amount of money and general public goodwill towards the objective.

Truly is a thankless job.