Finance committee  I think in solar hot water we have technology that can build a large export business for Canada, and I think it's going to require Canadian government support for that to happen, in my opinion, because it transcends provincial borders. In PV, photovoltaics, that won't happen, but

Finance committee  The Canadian building code doesn't really have to change per se, but there are things that could be done with the regulations around building to make it easier to do. There are a lot of regulatory barriers to putting things on people's roofs. Most of those are not federal regulat

Finance committee  No, no, that has been—

Finance committee  Yes, there are data produced by third parties to verify that.

Finance committee  I actually made that point. Solar thermal produces energy at about 7¢ a kilowatt hour, as I said before. Wind is double that, or two to two and a half times that cost today.

Finance committee  You have to look at what it costs to build a facility, how much energy is produced, and the lifetime of the facility, and then you can figure out from that, over those many years, how many dollars were spent to produce how many kilowatt hours of energy. So roughly speaking, wind

Finance committee  No. It would be a program similar to the ecoENERGY program, which is a direct incentive to the homeowner.

Finance committee  The cost of energy to produce solar hot water across Canada is about 7¢ a kilowatt hour, which is comparable to grid energy. Grid energy, averaged across Canada, is about 7¢ or 8¢ a kilowatt hour. It's less in Quebec and higher in places like the Maritimes. The challenge is that

Finance committee  Thank you. Solar thermal is the most cost-effective renewable energy available to Canada. It's a fact that we are not all that aware of as Canadians. As a result of the program called ecoENERGY for renewable heat, over the last four or five years the solar thermal industry in Ca