Natural Resources committee  Yes, I can try to answer that for Siemens. I know that Siemens is working on software solutions to control that variability and that flexible potential that is out there. A company like Siemens is pretty big, and it's at many different levels in the system grid. Basically, we w

Natural Resources committee  You can store energy to use it at another moment. I'm going to go to an example with interties. At the peak in winter, when everybody needs to eat and make their dinner and all that, if you can delay some usage and use it during the night when everybody's sleeping and you have le

Natural Resources committee  Actually, the other tools that we are talking about—and please tell me if you want to clarify the question—are options that, in the end, will help interties, because if you have a better local optimization that goes up to a better interaction between the different interties, you

Natural Resources committee  I'm not sure I'm in a position to say if it's better to have east-west or north-south, but definitely increasing interties between provinces is something that makes sense technically. In the end, I guess it's a decision based on economics for the jurisdictions. Right now there's

Natural Resources committee  The Walmart example of production is actually a good one. You go to the demand side and you use the flexibility that you have to help the grid. This is an example, I would say, of a truly smart grid application in which you don't just consume electricity blindly; you consume it w

Natural Resources committee  I think it's hard to tell how transmission will evolve, but it's definitely a tool that needs to continue to be used. Even though we try to optimize more locally, I think that transmission is part of the solution and it won't disappear soon. The diversity and the geographic sprea

Natural Resources committee  There is some industrial in the P.E.I. project. If I recall properly, there is a dairy processing farm and some commercial also involved. I could follow up on that, if required.

Natural Resources committee  Thank you. The answer to your question is that there are different levels. First, there is the interconnection for a utility-sized power plant. Right now the standard for interconnection is being reviewed in Canada. We are participating in this activity to review the distributed

Natural Resources committee  I agree that because of our size we don't handle everything. We generally deal with partnerships. To give you a clear example, it was mentioned that we manage the Canadian smart grid action network. That's a way to transfer the information to the industry. That's an example of a