Thank you, Speaker-elect. The NWT Power Corporation is a Crown corporation, as everyone knows, and it's certainly been the main distributor of energy and also producer of energy. It's very important in every community because of our cold-weather climate. We expect that it will continue to provide that service.
My vision is that it will begin to move to more alternative and renewable sources of energy generation. As one of the experts talked about in the two energy charrettes that we hosted here in Yellowknife, the 56,000 kilowatt hours of electricity that we generate is the most complicated 56,000 kilowatt hours than anywhere else.
So, there are a lot of issues when you're generating electricity. You have to produce for redundancy so that if the power generators break down, that we can maintain or put in alternative sources immediately. So, I see the Power Corporation as looking at changing the way we deliver.
We're starting to use a lot of solar. We have moved to LNG in Inuvik, and we are looking at the potential, perhaps, to use more LNG in communities that are on the highway system.
Here in Yellowknife, we're pretty well maxed out on electricity generation, and we're looking at opportunities, perhaps, to do more on the LNG front. We're looking at wind; we're looking at solar.
I'm very excited about what they're doing in Colville Lake, where they have not only wind, they have solar and they have diesel and storage capacity so that they have all forms.
On the energy conservation side and making people more independent, perhaps generating more of their own electricity, working with this Assembly, I'd like to look at what we can do as a government to increase investment in energy efficiency and energy conservation so that people in their own homes can convert to these different forms of electricity and reduce their demand on electricity generation. But I still see the Power Corporation as continuing to have an important role.
Reading the Liberal platform, they are indicating that they're prepared to have green funds. They have green bonds and they're prepared to invest in different energy technologies. So, we need to examine those to see if we can access those programs as well. Thank you, Mr. Speaker-elect.