ALBERTA POWER SUMMIT

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

8:00

Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00

Welcoming Remarks from Insight Information

9:05

Opening Remarks from Co-Chairs

Bryan DeNeve
Senior Vice President, Commercial Services
Capital Power Corporation

Aaron M. Engen 
Managing Director
Power & Utilities Group
BMO Capital Markets

9:15

Resource Adequacy in Alberta and other North American Power Markets

John Esaiw 
Director, Forecasting
AESO

Johannes P. Pfeifenberger 
Principal
Cambridge, The Brattle Group Inc.

Kathleen Spees 
Associate
Cambridge, The Brattle Group Inc.

The presentations will focus on the complexities of long-term planning and resource adequacy in the Alberta power market. The speakers will compare Alberta’s purely market-based approach to attracting sufficient investments in the power sector against the approach in power markets that impose mandatory reserve margins. Select case studies of challenges to resource adequacy will be presented, including a discussion of how capacity markets have been tested by new environmental regulations and out-of-market generation additions

10:15

Networking Coffee Break

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10:30

Evolution and Future of the Green Energy World and Implications for Electricity Generation

Brandon Anderson
Senior Vice President, Canadian Power
TransCanada Corporation

Charles Ruigrok
Interim President and Chief Executive Officer
ENMAX Corporation

Dawn Farrell 
Chief Operating Officer and Chief Executive Officer-designate
TransAlta Corporation

Brian Vaasjo
President and Chief Executive Officer
Capital Power Corporation

The speakers will provide perspectives on the various uncertainties associated with the timing and nature of future federal and provincial policies on GHG and renewables as well as the degree and penetration of smart grid/demand response initiatives and the implications these policies may have on future electricity generation:

• Opportunities created by sound GHG policy – how it can influence innovation and technology choices in Alberta
• The proposed Federal GHG framework for electricity generators – why it makes sense for Alberta and Canada
• Alberta’s GHG regulation – Looking back on four years of experience

12:30

Networking Luncheon

1:30

Keynote Lunch Speaker:

Kathryn Wood 
Acting Assistant Deputy Minister of Electricity, Alternative Energy and Carbon Capture and Storage
Alberta Energy

2:00

PART ONE

Alberta Wholesale Power Market – Evolution, Future Design and Requirements

B. Kathryn Chisholm, Q.C, 
Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
Capital Power Corporation

• Updates on Capital Power's recent investments in Alberta's power market (K3 and Halkirk Wind)
• Capital Power's perspectives on transmission development and intertie access issues
• Renewable energy integration issues and challenges for Alberta's market
• The importance of long-term regulatory and policy stability
• The efficiency of capital deployment in a competitive market

Miranda Keating Erickson
Director – Market Design
AESO

• Alberta's energy-only market design
• Evolutionary pressures on the market
• Given those pressures, is the market design sustainable?

3:15

Networking Refreshment Break

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3:30

PART TWO

Alberta Wholesale Power Market – Evolution, Future Design and Requirements

Mozhi Habibi 
Strategy Manager
IBM Global Energy & Utilities, Strategy & Solutions

The Utility of the Future: The future of the energy industry means the emergence of new business models enabled by new technologies and customer demands. It means key transformations in governmental policy, changing consumer demands and the emergence of new technologies. The companies best able to make this transformation are the ones to rise in prominence and be successful in the future.

Robert Hemstock
Executive Vice President, Regulatory and Legal Services
ENMAX Corporation

• Characteristics of our current Energy Only Market
• Has it performed as expected?
• Issues to watch in the future – intertie expansion, uncongested transmission, coal retirements, renewables, generation adequacy
• Can the «Energy Only Market» continue to meet the needs of Albertans and market participants?

Rob Schaefer
Executive Vice President, Corporate Development
TransAlta Corporation

• Where are we now?
• Who is responsible for changes?
• Is design change necessary?
• What changes are planned /anticipated?
• What changes are needed? Why?

5:00

Summing up Remarks by Co-Chairs and Conference Adjourns for the Day

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

8:15

Continental Breakfast

9:00

Opening Remarks from the Co-Chairs

9:15

Objectives That Are Driving the Region’s Transmission Development

Shan Bhattacharya 
Vice-President, Transmission
AESO

• Drivers of transmission development in Alberta
• How AESO is managing the development in a cost effective manner
• How do we compare with other jurisdictions in North America?

Dale McMaster 
Executive Vice President, Transmission & Distribution Services ENMAX Corporation

• The ENMAX transmission system development plan
• Key drivers for the plan
• Linkages to development of the distribution system

Scott Thon
President and Chief Executive Officer
AltaLink

• Value of transmission
• Preparing for the future
• Impacts on the market

10:45

Networking Coffee Break

11:00

Are the Transmission Interconnections with Neighboring Jurisdictions Essential to the Region’s Economic Growth?

Evan Bahry 
Executive Director
Independent Power Producers Society of Alberta

On the impact of expanded intertie access on Alberta’s deregulated electricity market:

• Does the expanded access with neighbouring hydro markets (namely BC) has the opportunity to improve the balancing requirements of Alberta’s proposed wind build?
• Complexity of integrating resources from regulated markets with Alberta’s open, competitive market
• If the playing field is not leveled, expanded intertie capacity risks backing out intra-Alberta generation investment

Jason Quenneville 
Manager, Financial Partnerships
Enbridge Inc.

Energy Corridor development:

• MATL Project
• Green Line Project
• Challenges and opportunities
• Siting consideration
• Design build flexibility
• Stakeholder engagement and support
• The Anchor Shipper Model
• A holistic approach to development

12:00

Networking Luncheon

1:15

What about Retail Market and Consumers?

Sheldon Fulton
Executive Director
IPCAA

• Do we need regulated rates for gas and electricity consumers?
  • Can electricity and gas default supply programs be harmonized?

• What are the objectives of regulated (default supply) procurement plans?
  • Lowest rates for consumers?
  • Development of forward markets?
  • Level playing field for retailers?
  • Incentive for energy efficiency?

• Should electricity procurement plans be standardized?
  • Common procurement methodology?
  • Central procurement pool?
  • Standardized risk and return margins?

Rob Spragins
Utilities Consumer Advocate
 

• The UCA's role in Alberta's electricity and natural gas markets
• The Advocate's approach to implementing the UCA's role
• The UCA's retail electriicty and natural gas initiative

2:30

Networking Refreshment Break

2:45

Will Non-emitting Electricity Transform the Alberta Economy?

Can the policies to promote renewable project development be accommodated within Alberta’s market design, or would they require fundamental changes to the framework of the Alberta market?

Dan Balaban 
President and Chief Executive Officer
Greengate Power Corporation

Wind energy and a vision for a prosperous and clean Alberta:

• Vision for Alberta – North America’s wind energy leader
• Economic and environmental benefits
• Status of wind energy in Alberta
• Barriers
• The transmission misconception
• Policy options
• Proposed policy – Clean Electricity Standard

Mitchell Rothman 
Managing Consultant
Power Advisory LLC

Policies to promote renewable project development:

• What’s being employed successfully elsewhere
• Policies for competitive markets
• The advantages of Renewable Portfolio Standards
• Issues with the quality of price signals from Renewable Portfolio Standards

Jared Donald
President
Conergy Canada

There is opportunity for a bright future for solar photovoltaics in Alberta.

• Benefits to the grid of photovoltaic energy supply
• Cost trends, future outlook and grid parity
• Value chain changes required to allow effective adoption of photovoltaics in Alberta
• Available paths for integrating photovoltaic technology into Alberta’s energy mix

Paula McGarrigle
Managing Director
SOLAS Energy Consulting Inc.

• Is Alberta’s renewable energy resources the next Oil Sands equivalent to Albertans?
• What is the quality of Alberta’s renewable energy resources?
• How much renewable energy can Alberta integrate?
• What is the next frontier for increasing the amount of renewable energy in Alberta?
• What does Alberta need to do maximize the integration of renewable energy?

5:00

• Executives and Managers from:
  • Industrial, Commercial and Institutional Users of Electricity
  • Electric Utilities
  • Power Aggregators, Marketers and Brokers
  • Electrical Equipment Manufacturers
  • Independent Power Generators and Service Companies

• Energy Lawyers, Advisors and Consultants
• Investors and Financial Officers
• Regulators and Officials from Federal, Provincial and Local Government Bodies
• Experts, Officials and Representatives of Interest Groups in Environment, Resources and Economic Development

Dear Colleague,

The decision to restructure Alberta’s electricity market in the early 1990s was based on the belief that competitive markets would increase customer choice and lower costs of supply. The last several years have seen the realization of many of the benefits associated with restructuring (e.g. an increase in the number and types of generation, including wind and distributed generation) as well as opportunities for new efficiencies and new services as a result of on-going technological change. The last few years have also seen greater levels of government intervention as Alberta responds to environmental and market design challenges.

Is Alberta’s original vision for the electricity market still the right vision or does it need to be revised? Is the market structured to deliver the changes? This conference will focus on two areas: what do end-use customers want the market to deliver and what will market participants need to do to respond to these demands?

This summit brings together policy makers and industry participants to encourage open and frank debate on these questions. The select roster of speakers includes a diverse range of representatives from government, industry associations and industry who will share with you their expert opinions and insights on the issues that need to be addressed if an electricity market that will meet the needs of all participants is to evolve.

Important and thought-provoking questions will be addressed in this comprehensive two day event that is designed to provide up-to-date insight into the forces that shape the Alberta and North American electricity markets.

As co-chairs, we encourage you to engage and challenge the speakers in group discussions, and to mix socially with both speakers and other summit participants at networking lunches and breaks.

Binders containing the conference materials submitted by the speakers will become a valuable addition to each participant’s library. On behalf of Insight Information, we urge you to join us at this summit.

Yours truly,

Bryan DeNeve
Senior Vice President, Commercial Services
Capital Power Corporation

Aaron M. Engen
Managing Director
Power & Utilities Group
BMO Capital Markets

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