Natural Resources committee  I haven't looked at the comparative retail prices of electricity, so I can't necessarily speak specifically to the comparison between the different cities. You brought up that there are often three priorities to power system planning more generally. One is price and the impact o

Natural Resources committee  I'll take this one first. I appreciate the question, and I apologize. After this, I will have to drop off. Canada has a long history of exporting electricity to the U.S. markets, most notably of the northeast United States getting imports from Quebec, Ontario, and the Maritime

Natural Resources committee  I'll do my best to squeeze a few more minutes in. I appreciate your checking in.

Natural Resources committee  One reason I spoke specifically to wind integration was that it was a study we recently conducted for CanWEA, the Canadian Wind Energy Association, and Natural Resources Canada. We looked at what happens if you add wind to the power system across Canada. How do you do it in a way

Natural Resources committee  Yes. I try to stay present with it.

Natural Resources committee  I've not looked at where individual turbines or individual solar plants, gas plants, or hydro plants should be sited. The analysis my team does is, if you have a resource mix, how should the plants that are there today be utilized? In the pan-Canadian study, we did evaluate poten

Natural Resources committee  Thanks for bringing that up. It's a good question. My advocacy here was using transmission as one tool to facilitate, whether it be renewable.... I didn't come here to advocate for one generation resource or another. One benefit I tried to highlight was a diverse resource mix.

Natural Resources committee  Yes. I believe that price is always important for customers, no matter what sector they're in.

Natural Resources committee  I came here to talk about the benefits and the challenges of increased inter-regional co-operation and interties, not necessarily for one specific resource versus another. There are ways to analyze that, and it's something our group, GE energy consulting, has done in the past thr

Natural Resources committee  I'm sorry. Can you repeat the question on that in terms of capital costs?

Natural Resources committee  Here, in order to be cost-effective.... When evaluating the study, you have to look beyond just some of the energy savings of transferring a megawatt hour from one region to another and the differential energy price in one region versus the other. You have to look at and evaluate

Natural Resources committee  Yes.

Natural Resources committee  Yes, that's correct.

Natural Resources committee  Thank you. I appreciate your comments. To get right to the point on what regions make the most sense, when we evaluate this through some of our pan-Canadian study work, we look for, first, regions that have the highest concentration of wind and solar energy, and where in one reg

Natural Resources committee  Please do.