Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to all our witnesses for being here today.
Mr. Noorani, I wanted to ask you a couple of questions about renewable energy. Like my friend Mr. Rowe, I'm an Atlantic Canadian MP from Nova Scotia. Wind energy in particular has gotten a tremendous amount of interest in Nova Scotia over the last year or so. There are also significant projects around green hydrogen, which we heard about in our meeting last week.
Also, wind west is one of the projects of interest of the Major Projects Office. In your opening statement, you said that there are about 25 gigawatts of wind, solar and storage currently in Canada. Wind west, on a full build-out, is for 60 gigawatts. Obviously, the scale is massive. Of course, as we know, the wind doesn't always blow, but if you've been on the water off Nova Scotia, it often does, and to great effect, which is why it's one of the best places in the world to have offshore wind.
Could you give me your sense of the wind industry in general and of that project and how we can take it from a fantastic idea that everybody thinks is great to actual operation? What barriers or opportunities are there that we should be aware of to make sure it happens?