I would like to add something. I will answer in English because I am more comfortable in that language.
Also, the price of electricity in Quebec for end-users is subject to a lot of pressure in the coming years, since Hydro-Québec has been split into three different companies: production, distribution, and retail. Retail now buys all of its additional energy at market prices. All new demand comes at a loss to Hydro-Québec retail.
This year, when oil prices were very high, we were getting calls every day from homeowners who wanted to switch from heating oil to electricity. That's 20% to 30% of the residential market right there switching to electricity, new demand.
Electric cars.... The Prius, which is the most successful hybrid model, is going to go to a plug-in model in its next form next year. We're going to have electric cars. All of this is going to compete with the existing capacity on the grid. And that's not just going to happen in Quebec; it's going to happen all across Canada. If we don't have ways of localized production that reduce the strain on this grid, we're not going to be able to deliver things like electric cars and green energy to people's homes. So it's very important that we consider a fair price for the production of energy inside the city.
I'm currently building a net-zero house, a very similar program, in the same program as the Minto home in Montreal. It's a three-unit condominium. We've run into exactly that problem of if we produce extra energy we don't get a credit for it. We're producing the energy right where it's needed, as opposed to in the north of Quebec and transferring it down. We're reducing the strain on that grid on the hottest says of the summer, and we have very little benefit to show for that.