Mr. Jim Gannon:

When we talk about storage and interconnection, at the root of this is the fact that we have demand that follows a certain profile, and that could be on a given day because people go to work and come home, or it can be over seasons because it gets hotter and colder and there is more daylight and less daylight.

Separately, our renewable energy resources, such as they are, follow a different but much harder to predict profile in that we have an abundance of wind and solar but that can be unpredictable. Really, what we are looking for is matching and flexibility and that can be achieved through batteries or storage. That balancing can be achieved through interconnection, as was said, and also demand profile changing itself in response to either carbon intensity or price. It is likely a combination of these behavioural changes and technologies that will give us the sort of matching flexibility that we need. It is good to talk about batteries and interconnection but we must also look at the other types of things that will help to deliver flexibility, including demand itself. We should not lose that.