Certainly we are involved with battery-supported technologies, and we see a lot of that. It's a power-density issue and it's a cost-constraint issue. Tying solar to stored hydro, for example, is a good way to understand that you've incurred a footprint; you've had an impact. It's there. It's a legacy asset. Tying intermittent renewables to hydro storage, I believe, is a good way to offset.
Certainly for far remote communities, camps or whatnot, you can definitely tie it to batteries. There are lots of examples in B.C. with small completely cut-the-cord off-the-grid facilities. I think it's going to take an element of people just deciding how they want to use their energy, and whether they want to go that extra step. Maybe we don't use our power at night if we want to be solar-only and we augment that with a small amount through a smaller battery system. You can tie together used up car batteries now, put them on a shelf, and connect them to your solar panel. As solar modules are coming down in price, you can put more out there.
If you have a low-efficiency regime—British Columbia isn't exactly the place where there is low-hanging fruit for the solar industry, which is why we don't have a lot of it there—as the cost of the module continues to drop, you just put more out there. You pick up what little you can and store it in a battery.
We're very keen. We're looking at various remote opportunities in B.C. in particular, but the storage is tough. The power density of a battery as compared to the amount of storage you can get from a reservoir or a pump storage facility is a tough one.
We can lock arms with those other industries and support that as we look to offset the burning sources of electricity.