Your Majesity thank you for meeting with the Board of Economic Interest.
We have a proposal for you from one of our Western Villages where currently there is a mining operation to procure various metals used for various magic item creation. However, our scholars and diviners predict that the mine will be completely tapped within 15 years time at the current rate of production.
That said, we are proposing an idea to turn the mine into a lake and set up solar panels on it afterwards. The Solar panels will supply electricity to Domestically raised Lightning Elementals who are trained to take in and release electricity at a predictable rate over several generations of rearing.
Not only will this speed up the infrastructure upgrades slated for that region but will provide indepth field testing of our Electrical Grid which we hope to have fully interconnected with the Capital soon.