Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you for being here this afternoon. I have about ten questions, but I'll start with three or four. I think my first one is more a comment, actually.
When you speak about clean energy, alternative energies, I find that fascinating. I had the opportunity of speaking to the president of New Flyer Industries about a month ago. My numbers might be off a little bit, but it seems to me he told me that in 2003, 3% of his sales were hybrid or new technology. This year, 30% of the work they're doing is clean energy stuff. He has $1.2 billion of orders, and 60% of that is new energy.
We can build economies around this stuff. It is that powerful. This is the first time we've actually talked about it on our visit, so I'm very pleased to hear you speak to that.
That's more of a comment.
My question for Mr. MacDonald is this. You said you're moving towards cost parity with the grid. I'm trying to get a feel for what 100 megawatts would look like.
In Manitoba we had a wind farm, hooked up to the Manitoba Hydro grid, of 99 megawatts, and it cost $280 million, I believe. What would it cost for a similar thing in solar panels, and what would it look like physically?