On the other hand, we're seeing people now putting in solar systems all over the U.S., installing them to reduce their costs.
You have, then, two groups trying to optimize the same thing but coming to very different results. The net result is not a very happy one, in that the U.S. utilities appear now to be looking to charge a demand charge for electricity that will actually damage the cost-effectiveness of a lot of the solar energy.
I believe that if we were to work as a unit and have some kind of central planning or some sort of central operation that planned for both sides, we could maximize the amount of renewable energy we get on the system and run very efficiently.
It's going to take all we can get. If you look at the amount of energy that's used.... We did a lot of audits in B.C. in buildings and found that two-thirds of the energy came in through the gas pipe and one-third came in through the electricity wires. If you're going to eliminate the fossil fuel side of things and attach the transportation industry at the same time, you're going to find that the need will be very dramatically shifted towards electricity. We're going to have to work very closely together.