Thank you, Chair, and thank you to our witness for being here.
This study is looking both at energy security and at opportunities in electricity, specifically. We know our energy future is an electric future. Electrification is an important part of energy self-sufficiency. In that vein, we also want it to be an affordable future. I appreciated Mr. Malette's comments in that regard. I think it's something that as a committee we have to keep our eyes on at all times, lest we find ourselves offside of people and people's lives.
You've talked about an integrated system, and you've talked about it being not just about transmission but also distribution and the resources and assets. You mentioned specifically distributed batteries, and those are words that caught my ear. I wonder if you can expand on battery technology, its current state and how you see that distributed future looking.