I'm very interested in some of the comments that Céline Bak was making regarding some of the recommendations.
I'm from the Northwest Territories, where we have a fairly small community that had to replace their power plants. They were all diesel-generating power, so they went to a combination of diesel and solar panels, which is fine, but if we did a full cost accounting of it, I'm not sure if it would pass the test, because the panels are nice, but the batteries have a limited lifespan. The actual cost to install them was amortized over 10 years, but in 10 years all of it has to be replaced, so we'll start again.
The people who put it in had a subsidy. The territorial government subsidized it and said it's really a good project, but what do you measure? When you're talking about the full-cost accounting, what are you measuring? Is it greenhouse gas emissions? What's the formula made up of?