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As a former strata treasurer: believe me, we wanted to. We had the votes, city had a nice incentive. But our building -- and indeed most high rises in the West End built '59-'73 -- simply didn't have enough wattage and when we asked BC Hydro for more the answer was an absolutely staggering amount of money since you needed to dig up the street and the house property to get the cables in. (And be God merciful on you if there are trees to mess with because the city won't be -- it is probably easier to get a license to kill than getting a permit to replace trees in the West End.) And it's the same amount of digging for 50A or 500A so it only makes sense to ask for as much as you can and BC Hydro has little left until the new substation comes online and now it seems that won't be before 2029.

Times like these, you need to consider if you had a spare 50A (we didn't) would you spend that on another drier or an EV charger?