Natural Resources committee  The penetration is a fraction of 1%. The number would be 8,000 to 9,000 homes and roughly 1,500 businesses.

Natural Resources committee  Roughly speaking, we would hope to be able to double that over the course of the next three to five years. I should emphasize that that is business as status quo. A number of different levers have been pulled in the United States, any one of which could dramatically increase the

Natural Resources committee  In my experience, markets tend to breed innovation because many companies are competing over the same space and being forced to provide new products that better meet their customers' needs. Where there's a monopoly, as is the case in most electrical and natural gas distribution o

Natural Resources committee  There are no savings for the person who actually pays the bill, but there are savings to society as a whole in increasing the amount of renewable power, and therefore there are fewer hospitalizations, fewer adverse health effects, a more diversified electricity mix, less dependen

Natural Resources committee  Yes, and it's building an economy in the country, it's diversifying a portfolio.... I could give you a long list of benefits from it.

Natural Resources committee  Absolutely. I fundamentally believe that a clean economy will be one of the big economic drivers globally over the next two decades. It's just a question of how much of that Canada is able to benefit from.

Natural Resources committee  There have been a number of studies. I don't have that data at my fingertips either, but there was a study by a woman named Céline Bak, who says already the clean tech industry in Canada is approximately the size of the aerospace industry, and is growing much more rapidly. I coul

Natural Resources committee  Absolutely. In fact, we're one of the sponsors of the next remote renewable power conference. It's being held in Canada in partnership with the Pembina Institute, which is an Alberta-based energy think tank. It's going to be taking place in June. The entire focus will be on north

Natural Resources committee  I don't know the figure for Canada, but in the U.K., their National Grid, which is their gas utility, has estimated that biomethane could account for approximately, I believe, 40% of residential natural gas demand in the United Kingdom. One would expect it's a similar proportion

Natural Resources committee  Sure, I'd be happy to do a back-of-an-envelope calculation.

Natural Resources committee  Not as the economics are currently configured. First of all, this is biomethane, which is different from biodiesel, just as a point of clarification. Currently, biomethane is more expensive than conventional natural gas. If, however, we start taking account of the environmental i

Natural Resources committee  I think what you're referring to is that there's an EcoLogo certification, which is a federal government certification done through the EcoLogo program. EcoLogo typically certifies small hydro but not large hydro. I think that's what you're referring to.

Natural Resources committee  My personal belief is that smart grids will revolutionize electricity in our society, and to some extent heat as well. They will incorporate intelligence end to end, from generation all the way through to consumption, and will provide greater efficiency, greater effectiveness of

Natural Resources committee  It's just outside of Montreal. The next two projects were built in British Columbia, and we're starting to look at projects in Ontario and elsewhere across the country.

Natural Resources committee  We work with this one facility, EBI, in Quebec, in the green natural gas. In terms of renewable electricity, we've worked with a number of suppliers in the past, including Brookfield. I'm trying to think whether there are any.... Anyway, those would be the principal players.