Thank you for the question.
Looking towards the growth that would come from, say, electric vehicles or industrial electrification heat pumps, for example, there's a wide range of projections for how much electricity use could increase in the coming years up to 2050, but certainly we expect it to be very significant. The challenge is not just decarbonization and reaching net zero by 2035, but also a really significant build out of supply.
In my remarks I showed sensitivity to the leading roles that provinces and territories play in this space. I think I need to continue in that vein in the sense of not wanting to provide a prescriptive view on what any one province must do or not do. I would certainly agree that a lot of Canada's best large hydro sites have already been developed. That's not something that would be easy to expand on a really large scale.
We certainly hope that variable renewables will play a much larger role going forward. Certainly if you couple that with energy storage, a greater connection between provinces and territories, and other things that modernize the grid, the amount of variable renewables can be increased quite significantly, but in the end you still need to have some baseload that is provided by sources such as nuclear. I'm avoiding providing a prescriptive response. I don't think it would be my place to do so, but certainly I am acknowledging that a non-emitting baseload is a critical component of a future grid and that nuclear is one of the prime options for providing that.