I would say that a reliable supply of natural gas is part of the supply to those facilities, but equally and importantly for Nova Scotians, we would be designing those facilities to be dual-fuelled. They would also have a backup of liquid fuel available. That is part of ensuring that the reliability asset they are is available. That would be diesel, but the ability to transition to a renewable fuel over time is all part of the design of those facilities.
Overall, those facilities still emit about half of the greenhouse gases of coal per megawatt generated, and they will also run a lot less frequently, because rather than being baseload, they're only in there responding to really high-peak demand days or really low wind renewable generation days.
That's part of enabling the 90% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from our provincial electricity system over time, relative to 2005. Even though we will be adding those facilities with the predominant amount of generation coming from wind, the overall emissions are significantly reduced.
