Natural Resources committee  I can't talk too much to the Ontario perspective.

Natural Resources committee  To come to the point, yes, renewables are heavily subsidized in the U.S., but that can create situations where you're getting cents on the dollar. It also can create situations when you have storage in which you are getting paid to store someone else's power. In the British Colu

Natural Resources committee  I think it's on point. My only comment there would be if we look at our transmission networks across North America, we have to remember that there are huge transmission networks north and south, and there's good reason for that. We're heavily connected to our southern neighbours,

Natural Resources committee  Correct. My earlier comment was that our zero-carbon energy generation sources are cost-competitive, or will very soon be cost-competitive. But the generation resources that we can call on at any instant, at any time, the flexible generation resources, other than large-scale hydr

Natural Resources committee  Great question. Just to qualify my first statement, it was more for the small communities. In British Columbia, we have a lot of communities at the end of transmission lines along the coast with no local generations. They're reliant on the transmission grid to get them power. Whe

Natural Resources committee  As we move towards renewable generation, the resources are in the locations they are in. It's no longer with fossil fuels, or that we can take coal or natural gas and transport it to generate power where we need it. Wind is only available where wind is, and the sun only shines wh

Natural Resources committee  I would hope that Elisa Obermann from Marine Renewables Canada would be here to provide a better answer. I can tell you about our perspective on the west coast in the wave space, which is somewhat shared. As we get towards our deep decarbonization goals, as we want to try to meet

Natural Resources committee  Yes. When I look at that, I guess I should put it in the context of storing unused energy. Rather than us storing California's power, we're simply using California's power in British Columbia and not running our dams. We've managed to keep more water behind the dams, stored, as o

Natural Resources committee  A great question. I think there's a whole variety of factors that play into that. I can't talk to all the jurisdictions, but in the British Columbia perspective, our fuel costs for our generation are next to nothing. It's rain falling from the sky, whereas other jurisdictions tha

Natural Resources committee  In conclusion, including marine renewables in our generation resources will provide us with a more resilient and independent system and allow us to offset additional transmission capacity to provide generation resources on our coastlines.

Natural Resources committee  Thank you very much for this opportunity to present, as well as to Mr. Bateman for presenting a lot of the facts that I was going to present. Mine will be a little shorter, allowing more times for questions. As a bit of background, I'm an adjunct professor at the University of