I think offshore wind is going to be one of the critical pieces for Atlantic Canada. We've seen a shift over the last decade, frankly, that's changing Nova Scotia's place in the North American electricity system. A decade ago, that was the end of the line—the lines would end in Nova Scotia. Now Nova Scotia is interconnected with Newfoundland. Sometime in the future, it is also going to be interconnected with offshore. That's going to move it—to take Nova Scotia as an example—from being at the very end of the line to being in the middle of the action. When we talk about what the prospects are for economic development in the region, this is, again, going to be critically important for that.
One other thing that was said earlier was that we'll have to build twice as much. I don't think we are. I think we'll also have new technology coming online, which is going to mean that we won't have to double what we build because we're going to use the system more efficiently.
Here's the example I like to use. The technology hasn't yet been implemented, but I drive an electric vehicle. Basically, I have an 82-kilowatt-hour battery that just happens to be bolted onto four wheels. It spends 95% of its time sitting in front of my house, plugged in, and we have hundreds of thousands of these on the road. Soon we're going to have millions of these on the road. We can tap into them. Again, it is about how we can more effectively and efficiently use the technology we have. There are Canadians who are working on developing those types of technologies.
