Making Competition Work
The 11th Annual Canadian Independent Power Conference and Trade Show
November 1-2, 1999
Royal York Hotel, Toronto, Ontario
Updated Conference Program
Monday, November 1, 1999
Daybreak coffee service
Hosted by PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Siemens Canada Ltd.
8:30 am Introduction and industry update by Conference Chair
Safouh Soufi, SMS Energy Engineering
8:45 am Keynote Speaker: Floyd Laughren, Chair, Ontario Energy Board
"What is being done to improve the benefits that consumers will experience from electricity competition?"
Questions from the floor
(Thanks by Tom Brett, Smith Lyons)
9:15 am The new players in the energy market and how they can enhance competition
Bernie Jones, President, Ontario Natural Gas Association
9:30 Progress of the IMO
Barry Chuddy, TransAlta, IMO and IPPSO Director, introductions
Dave Goulding, CEO, Independent Electricity Market Operator
"What does the year ahead look like?"
Rob Cary, Westcoast Power, IPPSO, & IMO Technical Panel
"Issue resolution on the IMO Technical Panel"
Fiona Woolf, Cameron McKenna
"Design and implementation of the IMO Uplift"
Questions
10:15 am Coffee Break in the Trade Show
Hosted by Borden & Elliot
10:45 Ontario's Grand Design: how is it looking and
what's still needed?
David McFadden, Stakeholders Alliance for Competition (SAC)
Al Barnstaple, IPPSO
Arthur Dickinson, AMPCO
John Jenkins, ATCO Power
John Murphy, Power Workers Union
David Argue, Greengrid Electric
Tony Jennings, Municipal Electric Association
5-minute summaries focussing on "My prescription for competition," followed by open roundtable-style comments by speakers, and moderated questions from the floor.
12:00 noon Lunch in the Trade Show
Co-hosted by Smith Lyons
1:20 pm The Repositioning of Local Utilities
Keynote: John Brooks, President and CEO, Toronto Hydro
1:40 pm "The changing role of municipalities"
Linda Bertoldi, Borden & Elliott
David Morrow, EPCOR
Ed Houghton, Collingwood PUC and the IMO Board (invited)
2:20 pm The Repositioning of OPGI: Mitigating market power in Ontario
Keynote: Ron Osborne, President and CEO, Ontario Power Generation Inc.
Questions and discussion
2:45 pm Coffee Break
Hosted by Stikeman, Elliott
3:15 pm Transmission as competition-facilitator
Bob Fagan, Tabors, Caramanis and Associates
Ken Snelson, Snelson International Energy
Andrew Poray, Ontario Hydro Services Corporation
David Brown, Stikeman, Elliott
4:30 pm IPPSO Annual General Meeting
5:00 pm Reception in the Trade Show
6:00 pm Banquet Dinner
Keynote: Hon. Jim Wilson, Ontario Minister of Energy, Science and Technology
Tuesday, November 2, 1999
Coffee hosted by Miller Thomson
Simultaneous Cogeneration Stream:
The Future of Strategic Power Generation in Ontario
Moderator: Bernie Jones, President,
Ontario Natural Gas Association
8:30 - 8:35 am Introduction (Bernie Jones, ONGA)
8:35 - 9:00 am Critical Issues in the
Restructured Market
Peter Heffernan, Rolls-Royce
9:00 - 9:30 am Structuring Your Power Generation Fuel Supply -- A Customer's Perspective
Kevin Riemer, Tractebel Power Inc.
9:30 - 9:50 am Opportunities and Issues for New Power Generation Technology Choices
Ed Gasior, Gas Research Institute, Canada
9:50 - 10:20 am Coffee Break
Hosted by ONGA, Ontario Natural Gas Association
Natural Gas Turbine Applications
10:20 - 10:50 am KMS Peel Case Study
Tom O'Farrell, Energy Engineering
10:50 - 11:20 London Health Sciences Case Study
Joe Chiasson, London Health Sciences Centre
Natural Gas Reciprocating Engine Applications
11:20 - 11:50 am District heating, peak shaving & converting back-up units
Mack Shelor, Combined Energy Systems
Simultaneous Renewable Energy Stream:
The green power market
Moderator: Ian Mondrow, Shepherd Mondrow
9:00 am Ontario's disclosure and labelling system
Brian Smithies, Ontario Ministry of Energy, Science & Technology
Canada's green power certification program -- How far can it go?
John Polak, TerraChoice Environmental Services Inc.
Enhancing the market for Green Power
Brian Kelly, Friends of the Earth
10:30 am Coffee Break
Co-Hosted by Access Capital and Sithe Energies Inc.
10:45 am Emission trading and environmental standards
Bruce Lourie, Canadian Energy Efficiency Alliance (Environmental initiatives in Ontario's energy sector)
Ray Rivers, PERT, Pilot Emission Reduction Trading Program
Tony Rockingham, Ontario Ministry of Environment
Jack Gibbons, Ontario Clean Air Alliance
Questions and discussion
12 noon Lunch in the Trade Show
Co-Hosted by Power Budd
1:30 pm Keynote: Tony Prophet, President, Allied Signal Power Systems
"Reshaping the distribution system with Distributed Generation"
2:00 pm Simultaneous update workshops:
l Options for management of the Existing NUG Contracts, and particularly for compliance costs
Sam Mantenuto, Northland Power
l Recent developments in OEB Generator Licensing
Linda Bertoldi, Borden Elliot, and IPPSO licensing committee
l The Standard Supply Market
Tom Brett, Smith Lyons
Fiona Woolf, Cameron McKenna
l IMO Bidding, Dispatch, Scheduling and Control
Peter Sergejewich, Ontario's Independent Market Operator (IMO)
l The Emerging Transmission Rights Market
Mike Falvo, Ontario's Independent Market Operator (IMO)
3:00 pm Coffee Break
Hosted by Natural Resources Canada
3:30 pm Investment drivers and market power
Roundtable on minimizing barriers to investment
Stephen Probyn, Moderator
Peter Budd, Power Budd
Rick Jennings, Ontario Ministry of Energy
Rod MacGillivray, CIBC World Markets
Barry Chuddy, TransAlta, IMO Director, and IPPSO Director
Questions and discussion
4:30 pm Conclusion
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