We've been working for quite some time with Manitoba Hydro. Our relationship goes back many years. Certainly, we're looking at intertie capability along our border. I believe that today we have five interties with Manitoba Hydro. We're looking at potential expansion of some of those interties, depending on how we need to bring the power and where we need to bring the power into the province.
For remote communities, though, they are sufficiently far away from the grid that perhaps other options for renewable energy might be more viable for those. I know Manitoba Hydro also had a number of remote communities that are on diesel, but they are sufficiently far away from the grid. There is potential for wind and solar and some storage to be the renewable fuel of choice for those communities, and it may be able to be done less expensively than building a line to those communities. That's being explored today.
The major east-west intertie between Manitoba and Saskatchewan, for example, may allow us to bring in significantly more hydroelectricity than we do today. If the opportunity is available for SaskPower to take advantage of that capacity and energy that Manitoba Hydro is willing to contract with us on, then we would be very much into looking at what intertie would suffice. Whether that is for a small number of megawatts or a large number of megawatts, at this point in time, we're looking at all options.
The potential to move big amounts of electricity is certainly there. That would require a significant transmission investment. I think once you get up into the 500 or 1,000 megawatts of intertie capability, we're talking about $1 billion-plus investments to move energy from one province to another.