Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I will go to pages 244 and 245, where we have a number of the programs that we contribute to described, in particular, the NWT energy efficiency projects. It seems as though we contribute about $300,000 to this each year. It is where the department works with the Power Corporation to integrate residual heat, variable-speed generators, and other efficiency technologies that could reduce fossil fuel consumption.
The Minister is aware of SSi Energy coming to the Standing Committee on Economic Development and Environment and putting forward a presentation that described some new technologies, to some degree a new technology, but, you know, these were technologies that are fairly well known and fairly well utilized by other means. When you bring them all together, they can do wonders in terms of reducing energy consumption and fuel usage in communities, so I am wondering if the department is taking any consideration into either working with corporations such as SSi or ATCO or others that could form microgrids and/or district energy systems to help get some of the thermal communities off of the use of really large single heavy-duty generators and get down to a system where we can utilize the energy and the fuel more efficiently. Thank you, Mr. Chair.