Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to the witnesses for being here today.
I have a comment before my questions. Mr. Cullen insists at pretty much every meeting on talking about the importance of carbon pricing, but he never mentions the impact of it on consumers. I think our prior testimony, including that last week, when we heard that there was basically no agreement on whether the price should be somewhere from $40 to $200, reflects the fact that if it's put in place it has to change consumer prices. That's pretty much the point of it, to drive the price of conventional supply of energy up to the point where other sources are now going to be competitive with what we have conventionally.
I think we need to keep that in mind as we're having the discussion as well.
I would like to talk to the solar folks.
Where do you see the future of solar in the next ten years? You're talking about the different types of solar developments that have taken place with thermal, hydro, and the photovoltaic systems of the past, which have been the focus of attention on solar. Where are we going to be in ten years in terms of technology, and where are we going to be in terms of the size of projects?
I think in the past the public would typically think the solar is geared more toward individual applications. Mr. Shory earlier asked whether the wind folks were gearing towards individual applications as well. But where is your future?