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Schedule at a Glance
Pre-Conference: Sunday, November 14, 2010
13:00-14:50 Community Power Orientation – Part I
13:00-17:00 OSEA AGM
14:50-15:10 Break
15:10-17:00 Community Power Orientation – Part II
TBA
Renewable Energy Tour
18:30-21:30 The Green Connection www.thegreenconnection.ca
7:30-8:30 Registration Open and Continental Breakfast
8:30-8:50 Opening Ceremonies
Conference Day 1: Monday, November 15, 2010
8:50-9:20 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF ONTARO "SWITCH ON"
Paul McKay
At the turn of the 20th Century, Ontario faced formidable challenges: an industrial economy based on costly and
dirty coal; a deep recession and high unemployment; and a power system controlled by ruthless private
monopolists.
Known as "The Electric Ring", a trio of robber barons held 30-year 'franchises' for virtually all urban power
generation, street trams, and street lighting - all of which was coal dependent. By charging high rates for
miserable service, they provoked fury from citizens and manufacturers alike.
Between 1905 and 1910, several dozen municipal referendums backed a radical new form of public ownership
to bring the "white coal" of Niagara to southern Ontario cities via a publicly-owned grid. It was the first such
public utility in North America, and by 1921 it had completed the largest power project in the British Empire, at
Niagara Falls. Its charismatic champion was Adam Beck, and his cause was green 'community power'.
By the time he died in 1925, Ontario's grid was 100 per cent green. In the following four decades, more hydro
plants were built in the Ottawa Valley, St. Lawrence, and far North and power service extended to even the
remotest farms. Ontario Hydro was widely revered for delivering clean, reliable, low-cost power.
But fatally, it continued to stoke indiscriminate power consumption and by the late 1960's coal and nuclear
generation were on the ascent. By masking true costs and incurring hidden debts, discounting pollution and
nuclear waste risks, and insulating itself against public transparency and technical innovation, Ontario's public
utility betrayed the ideals that had replaced the "Electric Ring" era.
By the late 1990's, its debt had climbed to nearly $40 billion, and 75% of the power system relied on dirty,
dangerous coal and nuclear plants. In 2003, this reliance on a dozen centralized plants and a decrepit grid
system caused a historic blackout.
Now, Ontario has a chance to restore its place as a green leader in North America, and build an electric power
infrastructure which can underpin a thriving 21st Century economy. The lesson is clear: the debate is not about
form (private vs. public ownership) but about content: is the power system going to serve citizens from the
community level up, and is it going to be green?
Paul McKay is the author of: "Electric Empire: The Inside Story of
Ontario Hydro", and a past OSEA director. He now helps develop green energy projects.
9:20-9:50 Keynote:
Tom Rand, Author of “Kicking the Fossil Fuel Habit” and Advisor and Practice Lead, Cleantech, MaRS, Toronto
9:50-10:20 Break
10:20-11:00 Getting Organized - Introductory Plenary
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11:00-12:00 Maximizing Benefits through
Community Energy Planning
Chair: Harry French, Director,
Community Power Services
Group, Ontario Sustainable
Energy Association
Presenters:
Craig Jackson, Project
Coordinator, Community Power
Services Group, Ontario
Sustainable Energy Association
Rob McMonagle, Senior
Advisor, Green Technology and
Green Energy Economic
Development & Culture, City of
Toronto
Forming a Community Power
Group – Part I: Figuring out how
to get started.
Chair: Jim Fonger, Business
Opportunity Consultant, GEBOC &
Green Caledon
Community Opportunities under
Ontarioʼs Generation and
Conservation Programs
A regulatorʼs overview of the
opportunities available to community
groups under the Green Energy and
Green Economy Act. In particular,
attention will be given to the
framework of eligible feed-in-tariff
and conservation programs and the
resources available to community
groups in accessing these programs.
A broad perspective of the
successes and challenges in
implementing projects under these
programs will be provided through
speakers representing developers,
municipalities and the financial
sector.
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-13:35 Keynote:
Hon. Brad Duguid, Minister of Energy, Ontario
13:35-14:35 Driving Economic
Development through
Community Power – Role of
the LDC and Municipality
Chair: Paul Finley, Economic
Development Officer, City of
Greater Sudbury
14:35-15:05 Break
15:05-16:15 From Construction to
Operation
Chair: Michael Fox,
President, Fox High Impact
Consulting
Forming a Community Power
Group – Part II: Choosing a
Business Model and Structure
Chair: Tim Rudkins, Green
Enterprise Ontario
Forming a Community Power
Group – Part III: Gaining Site
Control
16:15-17:15 Green Energy and Green Economy Act Retrospect
Moderator: Marion Fraser
17:15–18:00 Community Power Reception
Venue: Power Networking Centre
18:00–21:00 Community Power Awards Banquet
Chair: Karim Saleh, SKON
Technologies
The MicroFIT and FIT: A practical
walk-through of the MircoFIT and
FIT application processes.
Chair: Mirrun Zaveri, Deputy
Director, Renewable Energy
Facilitation Office
Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure
Aboriginal Energy Partnership
Program and Aboriginal Renewable
Energy Initiatives
Presenter:
Michael Lyle, Vice President, Legal,
Aboriginal and Regulatory Affairs,
Ontario Power Authority
Keynote: Gord Miller, Environment Commissioner of Ontario
Community Power Award Ceremony
Award and Donation Ceremony to Brazilian Green Engineer Fabio Rosa
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7:30-8:20 Getting Money - Introductory Plenary
Conference Day 2: Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Keynote:
Colin Andersen, Chief Executive Officer, Ontario Power Authority (invited)
8:20-9:20 Municipal Financing
Financing – Part I
Early Stage Funding and Support
Chair: Mark Salerno, National
Sales Team Leader, Municipal
Infrastructure Lending Program,
Canadian Mortgage and Housing
Corporation
9:20-9:50 Break
9:50-11:00 International Session I – 100%
local energy supply from
renewables
Chair: Ingo Koenig, Koenig &
Consultants
Financing – Part II: Bonds,
Debentures, Shares and other
financing models
Chair: Laurie Arron, Program
Director, Community Energy
Partnership Program
Insuring Success – Practical
strategies for managing and
financing risk
Chair: John Chippendale, HKMB
HUB International
Presenters:
Ken Traynor, Our Power
Brian Monrad, President, Quixote
Windmill Management Corp.
11:00-11:30 Multiskilling Working Group – White Paper Presentation in the Power Networking Innovation Center
Harry French, Director, Community Power Services Group, Ontario Sustainable Energy Association
Joseph Mulhall, President, Canadian Union of Skilled Workers
11:30-12:30 Lunch
13:00-14:30 Aboriginal perspectives on power: What developers need to
know
This session will deal with the essential conditions that need to
be in place for a relationship between an Aboriginal community
and a commercial or community developer to move from the
accommodation stage to a viable development agreement. It will
include such considerations as:
- Ensuring full understanding of the existing government-togovernment
level agreements, and the views of affected
communities
- How does a developer assess the capacity of a First Nation or
Métis group to enter into a development process?
- How to ensure that a TK (Traditional Knowledge) study is done
properly and that archeological information is fully shared with
the Aboriginal community
- Understanding the different challenges and obstacles faced by
each type of group (Aboriginal community, community power
organization, commercial developer)
- The process of developing an IBA (Impact and Benefits
Agreement)
- How uncertainties in the ECT process and transmission
connection capacity affect the development process
- Aboriginal involvement in Environmental Assessment
processes
- What’s required for a Development Agreement to work
- The various roles that a community power organization can
play in these processes.
Chair: Merv McLeod, McLeod Wood Associates
12:30-
13:10
13:10-
14:10
Getting Understood
Kristopher Stevens, Executive
Director, Ontario Sustainable Energy
Association
WWEA
Community
Power
Working
Chair: Stefan
Gsänger,
Secretary
General,
World Wind
Energy
Association
Kristopher
Stevens,
Executive
Director,
Ontario
Sustainable
Energy
Association
Community
Engagement &
Partnership
Chair: John
Gorman, Pace
Consulting
Presenters:
Randall Kahgee, Chief, Saugeen First Nation (invited)
Phil Goulais, Lake Huron Anishinabek Transmission Company
Kathleen Padulo, Generation Seven Consulting (invited)
14:30-15:00 Break 14:10-
14:40
Break
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15:15-16:30 Fiscal Discipline and Accountability in Ontario’s Electricity
Sector
14:40-
15:40
International
Session II –
International
and Ontario
Experiences
and how to
campaign for
your own FIT
legislation
Roundtable
Discussion
Moderator:
Jose
Etcheverry
Communication
& Marketing Best
Practices
Identify the
principals of good
communication:
How to build,
nourish and
maintain the
relationship with
your community,
municipality, LDC,
investors,
members?
16:30-16:50 Closing Plenary – Summary of Conference and Call to Action
Volker Thomsen
16:50-17:00 Closing Remarks
Chair: Don Huff,
Eco Strategy
Side Programming:
Semi-closed Session: WWEA Community Power Working Group, Date & Time TBA
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