Natural Resources committee  My experience would be that having a portfolio of energy is a more robust solution. Having a number of sources of energy is an appropriate strategy. I think it's very much a decision of a particular jurisdiction how much they want to put in the hands of another jurisdiction. Fro

Natural Resources committee  From Nova Scotia we're lucky enough to be able to connect virtually every community just because of our geography, so we don't run into that quite as much. Maybe the question is more appropriate for David.

Natural Resources committee  I can speak to the part Emera is involved with. We're part of the interconnection between ourselves and Newfoundland called the maritime link, that is a 500-megawatt underwater interconnection. The cost of that is $1.55 billion Canadian and we expect to energize that line at the

Natural Resources committee  I think it was touched on a bit before, which is we have multiple regulatory bodies. We have provincial regulatory bodies and we have federal ones. When you're talking interties there's a conversation around the proportion of value to each of the jurisdictions and how that gets

Natural Resources committee  David, do you want to take a...?

Natural Resources committee  Okay. I think I can go back to my first theme. I think we need to take a look at many tools in the tool box to get us there. It's important that whatever goes into the grid has a level of coordination. When I spoke of electricity being every moment of every day, the technical cha

Natural Resources committee  I think it has some real possibilities. Again, it's about the investment required to understand how the cost will evolve through time. Today, it's expensive, but as with any number of technologies in the electricity sector, the prices are coming down. When the technology reaches

Natural Resources committee  Maybe I'll answer that in two parts. First off, I believe smart grid solutions are absolutely part of our future. It's like any number of things. We're going to need a suite of solutions to actually get us to where we want to be and smart grid is absolutely part of that. There a

Natural Resources committee  I would like to sincerely thank you, Mr. Chair and the members of the committee, for inviting me here today. Nova Scotia Power is a subsidiary of Emera, which is the 16th largest utility in North America and both are headquartered in Halifax. Nova Scotia Power serves approximate