APPrO 2006:
Crafting the critical connections to
ensure system stability
The 18th Annual
Canadian Power Conference and Trade Show
Including the Green Power
Conference*
November 14 and 15, 2006
Metro Toronto Convention
Centre, South Building, Toronto, Ontario
Major themes:
Ontario’s procurement system - What are the prime areas for improvement?
How to clear the road blocks for new
projects
What regulators and government can do
to encourage investment
What needs to happen while Ontario waits for
the final approved IPSP
The options for addressing NIMBYism /
Appropriate methods for expediting approvals
Critical considerations in market
evolution
Is a long-term vision still necessary?
What about clarification of the direction and pace?
The implications of reinforced nuclear
capacity
Providing assurance of reliability and
supply while meeting expectations for public consultation
Working with the new municipal
councils across Ontario.
Tuesday, November 14, 2006:
All sessions take place in Room 801 unless
otherwise noted
8:00 am Daybreak
coffee service
(outside Room 801)
8:30 am Conference Opening and Introduction
Stephen Somerville, Probyn
and Company, Conference Chair
8:45 am Roundtable of industry experts – Does the direction
need adjustment or just better focus?
An open discussion with leading
lights of the power business on the major directional issues facing the
industry including:
Checkup – Where have we got to – and where
are we actually going?
What should be going on while the
sector waits for the final approved IPSP?
What’s needed to attract more new
supply
Expediting resolution of transmission
bottlenecks
Reconciling the need for public input
with the need for timely development
NIMBY and the approval process
What changes are needed?
Featuring:
Moderator: Linda Bertoldi, Borden
Ladner Gervais, LLP
Duncan Hawthorne, Bruce Power
Tom Adams, Energy Probe
Darren MacDonald, Gerdau
Ameristeel
Sam Mantenuto, Northland Power
David Bowden, Direct Energy
Paul McMillan, EPCOR
Question cards will be distributed
to the audience, allowing them to pose questions anonymously to the speakers.
10:00 am Networking and Coffee Break in the Trade Show
10:45
am Opening keynotes: The
regulatory perspective
Howard Wetston, Chair,
Ontario Energy Board
“What
regulators can be expected to do, to facilitate new investment in
infrastructure, including generation”
Jan Carr, CEO, Ontario Power Authority
“The Path to Ontario’s Electricity Future”
Questions and discussion.
12 noon Lunch in the Trade Show
1:00 pm Navigating NIMBY & Approval Gridlock
Overview of the challenges, the
options for reconciling the public’s need for energy services with its
expectations for due process, best practices for developers, and the
political/regulatory/legislative methods for pulling it all together.
Participant views on which regulations are ripe to be fixed by government, and
where new legislation is required. Coupled with a subsequent workshop dedicated
to case studies of successful developments.
Tom Brett, Gowlings,
Moderator
Tony Rockingham, Ontario Ministry
of Energy
Rod Northey, Birchall Northey
Mike Crawley, AIM Powergen
Ramani Hariharan, Gartner Lee
Mike Richmond, McMillan Binch
Mendelsohn LLP
Questions and discussion
2:15 pm Critical issues to be faced in distribution
What are the pressures that LDC's
are facing and how are they managing?
(Rates, incentive regulation, increasing deliverable requirements, CDM,
smart meters, etc.) What are the issues
to be managed as other affiliate businesses are pursued in areas like
generation? What are key issues to be
examined with regard to Load Serving Entities? How are CDM programs progressing?
Moderator: Peter Heimler,
KPMG LLP
Michael Angemeer, Electricity
Distributors Association
Ron Clark, Aird & Berlis
LLP, Major Suppliers’ Group
Paul Shervill, Ontario Power
Authority
3:00 pm Networking and Coffee Break in the Trade Show
3:30 pm Forward-thinking: What’s next for
procurement and the forward market?
Moderator: AJ Goulding, London Economics
Richard Horrobin, Bruce Power
Dan R. Zastawny, Natural Gas
Exchange
Rob Power, Blake, Cassels
& Graydon LLP, and Electricity Market Investment Group (EMIG)
4:15 pm Keynote: Paul Murphy, CEO of the IESO
The
IESO’s vision for the future of the sector
Questions and discussion
5:00 pm Reception
6:00 pm Banquet Dinner
Hon. Dwight Duncan, Minister of Energy
9:00 pm Power Mixer
Location: Steam
Whistle Brewery, 255 Bremner Blvd.
Wednesday, November 15, 2006:
All sessions take place in Room 801 unless
otherwise noted
8:00 am Daybreak Coffee service
(outside Room 801)
8:30
am Keynote:
Tom
Parkinson, CEO of Hydro One
9:00 am Transmission Forum
A high-level review of
transmission issues affecting generators, and the stage that provincial
transmission planning is currently in. A central issue is determining what kind
of transmission policy decisions should be reflected in the final IPSP. Related
questions include:
- What transmission policy
framework drives the OPA’s choices for the IPSP?
- How should Ontario's plans weigh the relative merits of transmission enhancement for
economic purposes, as opposed to those designed to serve reliability
requirements?
- Is there an appropriate
regulatory and legislative framework in Ontario to allow for implementation of the government's policy on building
transmission ahead of generation?
- Should the IPSP include a
method or principles for setting the level of congestion that is acceptable in
various locations?
- How should the OPA assess
what is and is not economic?
- How does this relate to the
IESO’s work around locational pricing, DAM and so on?
This session will be an
opportunity for generators to put forward their issues and concerns with
transmission system upgrades, connections, development of new transmission
capacity, rate structures, and more.
Moderator: George Vegh,
McCarthy Tetrault
Amir Shalaby, Ontario Power Authority
Joseph Rossignoli, National
Grid
John Dalton, Navigant
Consulting
10:00 am Networking and Coffee Break in the Trade Show
10:30 am The How of Nuclear
Keynote address featuring:
Patrick Lamarre, SNC Lavalin, Team CANDU
representative
The "how" of new
nuclear: How will it be accomplished? What are the key steps? How can the
extensive timelines be managed? What is the role of Ottawa and other
key players?
10:45 am Managing Ontario’s nuclear rebuild
What are the implications of Ontario's nuclear
reconstruction for transmission system development and grid operation in Ontario? What risk
alleviation is possible through the turnkey project model? How best to
accommodate the upcoming possible refurbishments, the future growth in nuclear
production, and its unique production characteristics? Is progress on nuclear
waste management communicated and appreciated?
Moderator: Murray Elston,
Canadian Nuclear Association
Amir Shalaby, Ontario Power
Authority
Duncan Hawthorne, Bruce Power
Pierre Charlebois, OPG
Derek Cowbourne, IESO
Simultaneous Breakout:
10:30 am Resolving
gas – electricity alignment issues
Where is the Natural Gas Forum
taking us? Is risk reasonably allocated? What are the implications for
development and operation?
Christopher McCarthy, ICF
International, Moderator
Peter Fournier, IGUA
George Vegh, McCarthy Tetrault
Pat Moran, Ogilvy Renault
John Rosenkranz, Greenfield Energy
Centre, LP
Questions and discussion
12 noon Lunch in the Trade Show
1:00 pm Navigating NIMBYism - Case studies of successful
projects
People from divergent perspectives
engaged in constructive dialogue on project approvals, public accountability
and stakeholder input. What has worked for resolving complex issues in Ontario? Best
practices for developers, working within the current set of rules and dealing
directly with the public.
Heather
Landymore, Macleod Dixon, Moderator
Duane Cramer, Sithe Global
Scott Dodd, Enbridge Ontario Wind Power
Sarah Thorne, Decision
Partners
Rob Burton, President, Joshua
Creek Ratepayers Inc. and Executive Director, Clear The Air Coalition Inc.
Simultaneous
breakouts:
1:00 pm Options for new and revised OPA procurement mechanisms
The OPA’s procurement process as
proposed under the IPSP.
What the OPA’s next set of RFPs
should look like.
Other forms of procurement outside
the RFP model.
What kind of features need to be
in the IPSP’s procurement plan?
Provision for the NUGs at end of
contract.
Rob McLeese, Access Capital,
Moderator
Jason Chee-Aloy, OPA
Paul Bradley, Vice President,
Electricity Resources and Administration, OPA
Developers and proponents
1:00 pm Plant Managers’ Session
Current managerial issues from an
operator’s perspective: Keeping the NUGs working after contract expiry. Technical
regulations, ramping, etc.
APPrO President Dave Butters,
and others
2:00 pm Coffee Break
3:00 pm Distribution approval and connection
issues (See the Green Power Program for details)
Hydro One and others
3:30 pm APPrO A.G.M. (Annual General Meeting)
Location: Room 802B
Green Power
Conference
Where renewable energy projects
take off
A series of parallel events
focusing on renewable energy, simultaneous with the main APPrO 2006 conference
program
All Green Power Conference sessions take
place in Room 803 unless otherwise noted.
Tuesday, November 14, 2006:
1:00 pm Introduction to the Standard Offer Program
How to get access to the resources
the OPA has available. What you need to win a contract.
Jim MacDougall, Manager of
Renewable Energy, Ontario Power Authority
Moderator: Andrew Roman,
Miller Thomson
1:45 pm Current capital costs for renewables
Results of recent research on
capital costs for new renewables. Are the prices being offered for the Standard
Offer adequate to attract significant amounts of new investment?
Uwe Roeper, ORTECH Power
2:00 pm What’s working and what’s not with the province’s
procurement of green power
Ian Baines, OWA – Ontario Waterpower
Association
Liz Cussans, VisionQuest, and
CanWEA – Canadian Wind Energy Association
2:45 pm Coffee Break
(outside Room 803)
3:30 pm Case studies of SOP projects
Chris Litschko, Bracebridge Generation
Ltd.: Small hydro
Len Jewitt, BLT Farms Inc.: Agricultural anaerobic digestor
Glen Estill, Sky Generation
Inc.: Stand-alone wind
Mark Goss, Exhibition Place: Photovoltaics
Wednesday, November 15, 2006:
9:00 am Distributed Generation and the Standard Offer process
Alleviating regulatory barriers.
How high-efficiency gas and environmentally-responsible energy from waste can
fit into a Standard Offer process in Ontario, mindful
of the relationships with municipal and waste management agencies.
Edith Chin, Enbridge Gas
Distribution, Moderator
James Sidlofsky, DG Task
Force
Barry Chuddy, Enersource and
the Canadian District Energy Association
Jo-Anne St. Godard, Recycling
Council of Ontario
Don Hathaway, Vertegy
Concepts Corp., “Environmentally-Responsible
Energy From Waste”
Jan D’Ailly, Organic Energy
10:00 am Networking and Coffee Break in the Trade Show
12 noon Lunch in the Trade Show
1:00 pm OPA procurement options going forward
See
the main conference program for details.
2:30 pm Coffee Break
Technical workshop co-presented with the Ontario Sustainable Energy Association:
3:00
pm Distribution approval and
connection issues
A cross-cutting session to
gather participant comments in light of the case studies and other issues previously
discussed.
Moderator: Mitch Rothman,
Navigant
Bob Singh, Hydro One
Deborah Doncaster, Ontario Sustainable Energy Association
Glen Estill, Sky Generation
* Please note that the Green Power
Conference and the main APPrO 2006 conference are part and parcel of a single
event. There will be a large focus on renewable energy in the main conference,
and significant attention paid to system-wide issues in the Green Power
Conference. The distinction in the headlines is intended to help delegates
select their sessions, rather than to suggest any absolute separation with
respect to content.
Note: All program details are subject to
change without notice.
See http://conference.appro.org
for the latest updates!
APPrO 2006 Agenda 
