I'll start and then let Tim add in here.
We have embarked on a grid modernization program, certainly, much like other utilities in Canada. The future of electricity is very exciting, but it's also very transformative for our industry. Distributed generation, whether it's located at the residential premise or is a community project, will certainly have the benefit of having that capacity and those electrons available very close to the load, which would eliminate the need for a lot of transmission and distribution facilities.
The speed at which that transformation occurs, however, is as yet unknown. There's a lot of work to be done on battery storage technology that can be integrated into the grid and will allow the safe and secure movement of electrons in two or more directions, which is what the future ultimately holds. As to whether there's going to be a transition phase here of 10, 20, or 30 years, I think that's what the industry is wrestling with.
High baseload requirements will require a substantial amount of our generation to come from current baseload stations today, including coal, until the coal fleet meets that retirement date and we're able to do something with it. Natural gas combined cycle plants and hydro are the two main areas where we would see baseload providing that opportunity.
As this technology becomes available, storage becomes available, and we modernize our grid, we'll be looking to have those supply sources close to the load sources everywhere in the province. Currently, we have about 600 people with residential solar in Saskatchewan. We have about five megawatts of installed solar. We are proceeding through an RFP process for 10 megawatts of utility-scale solar, and the announcement of that successful proponent will be made early in 2018.