Certainly.
We have 148 megawatts operating in the province of Quebec. This morning, when we woke up, it was -22°C in Brossard and -29°C in Sherbrooke. Hydro-Québec had already given us the heads-up that for a number of days this week there would be something called délestage, which is curtailment. It's part of our arrangement with them. It's part of our co-operation that when the grid needs this type of power, it can be elastic, with people like us operating in good faith with it.
This morning, all our power in Quebec, with the exception of 1.52% of it, was curtailed, and we shut down our operations. Between about six o'clock and slightly after nine o'clock this morning, that power was directed back into the grid to where it was needed for households and industries that needed critical power to stay warm. Then, when that surge of power was balanced again—somewhere between 9 a.m. and 9:30 a.m.—they gave us a signal, and we started turning back on again. We're back in operation. I think it's supposed to be a little warmer tomorrow morning, but Friday and Saturday are supposed to be very cold, so I expect they'll ask us again and we will shut down again. That's what is possible.
Just to expand that, we would like to have more co-operative discussions with Hydro-Québec and some of the other hydro utilities to go to where they have surplus power—stranded power, as we call it—and set up our facilities closer to the dams that would otherwise spill water that would never go through the turbines. We want to monetize that. We want to improve the grid. We're a baseload, so if we take X amount, we're going to take it 24-7 and we're going to pay for it.
There's a real gain for everybody in optimizing grids by having people like us as part of them. I think those co-operative discussions to have us go to where the power is generated and where it's needed and where it can be maximized are important. That's what we can do; the old industry couldn't do that, but we can.
I think that's where we also need some leadership and open conversations, because, as I said, education is needed here. There are a lot of closed minds. We can be very beneficial to the grids and to the value in Canada.
Dan, do you want to continue?