Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  You are correct. Engineers despise distributed generation because it messes up their load profiles; engineers like predictability. One of the reasons for the high subsidy of solar PV in Ontario is because Ontario is now a cooling load province. We need more electricity in the mi

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  There are quite a few. As you say, as long as you've got the feedstock--

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I can get back to you with the specific brands and companies. I'm aware of probably 50 that sell small systems, meaning between one kilowatt and 10 kilowatts, and there are probably more. You can build them modularly, and those systems would be able to generate the majority of th

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It was formed in the late 1990s. Originally it was to be an umbrella group for wind energy, the solar industry, SESCI, earth energy, and groups like that, because they were all pushing their own specific widgets or technology, and there was the need for an umbrella, an overarchin

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We're doing that, and reporting on regulations, good and bad, and what the trends are. Our newsletter was called TRENDS in Renewable Energies. We pick up what happens at the International Energy Agency. We pick up what happens at the U.S. Department of Energy that has an impact o

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes. It's versus 400 billion in all of Canada. It works out to the same ratio.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes. It depends on the tree that you're using for the pellets.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I am more familiar with the southern ecoENERGY program than with some of the details on the northern one. They don't allow an incentive or support for individual residential homes, but they do for commercial buildings. If you were to set up district heating, Oujé-Bougoumou in no

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  My understanding is that north of 60, trees are not--

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  There's a higher energy content per litre of oil than per litre of wood chips. You may actually increase transportation costs to get it up there, but I totally agree with you.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes. If it is cost effective or even slightly subsidized, then go for it.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  There is no reason to use oil in that situation.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  My understanding is there are direct and indirect subsidies for the transport of oil to the north. Why not have direct and indirect subsidies to transport wood pellets to the north?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'm not aware of one. I'm sorry, but it's not my field of expertise. I don't know about transportation subsidies, but it's certainly something this committee could investigate and recommend.