8th BC POWER SUMMIT

March 5, 2013

8:00

Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00

Welcoming Remarks from Insight

Dr. Victor Pogostin
Insight Information

9:05

Opening Remarks from Co-Chairs

Doug Stout
Vice President, Energy Solutions and External Relations
FORTIS BC

Paul Wilson
Partner
Fasken Martineau, LLP

9:20

Integrated Resource Plan – Challenges to Building Legitimacy

Professor George Hoberg
Faculty of Forestry and Clean Energy Research Centre, UBC

• Turbulence in government policy objectives over the past decade
• Divergent interests of stakeholders
• The IRP in context: the missing link in BC electricity planning
• Improving the IRP process to build legitimacy and stability
• What to expect after the BC election

10;00

Networking Coffee Break

10:15

Customers and the Economy IRP Perspectives

Richard Stout
Executive Director
Association of Major Power Customers of BC

• The criticality of competitive and stable electricity pricing for customers
• Resting on our laurels in BC
• The criticality of cost-effective expansion under a high growth scenario
• Dealing with uncertainty – the real purpose of an IRP
• Significance of natural gas for electricity generation in BC
• Key roles in the electric economy
• The myth of tension between new and old customers

11:00

District Energy Regulation and Perspective

Matthew (Matt) Ghikas
Partner
Fasken Martineau, LLP

• BC Utilities Commission, the tribunal charged with regulating public utilities in British Columbia, has recently been grappling with its role in regulating the growing number of district energy systems and micro-utilities in the Province
• Some recent decisions of the Commission that provide guidance to project proponents and potential customers of district energy systems about what to expect in terms of regulation going forward
• The regulatory framework overseen by the BC Utilities Commission affords some flexibility as to how district energy project proponents can design rates to improve the viability of projects while being fair to customers
• District energy project proponents and the customers of those systems should be cognizant about what is generally involved with rate regulation of public utilities, the potential for adopting more "light-handed" regulation of a district energy system or micro-utility, and the factors that the Commission might consider when determining how to regulate a district energy system or micro-utility

Peter Judd
General Manager of Engineering Services
City of Vancouver

• Rationale for community energy re GHG reduction
• Southeast False Creek new experience
• Example from European experience
• Where it makes sense in Vancouver
• Vancouver strategy

Dale Littlejohn
Executive Director
Community Energy Association of BC

On micro generation opportunities in BC:

• Communities, co-ops, and companies – calculated considerations
• Beyond hope – opportunities and obstacles beyond the lower mainland
• Recent research – costs, revenues, pricing strategies

12:30

Networking Luncheon

1:30

Power Supply Options

Networking Refreshment Break will be announced

Pieter van Gils
Principal
Headwater Capital

The presentation will focus on sources of capital for First Nations participation in the energy sector:

• First Nations as developers of renewable energy (Kanak Bar, Taku River Tlingit, Hupacasaht)
• First Nations negotiating equity options as part of Impact Benefit Agreements with renewable energy projects (Sts'ailes, Sechelt, Kwakiuitl)
• First Nations negotiating equity options in the LNG sector (Cowichan, Haisla)

Kelly S. Lail 
Vice President
Capital Power Corporation

• Transformational role of natural gas in power supply
• Sustainability and grid reliability
• Flexibility and optimization of gas and hydro
• Financing and risk

Ralf Rank
Chief Investment Officer
Brookfield Renewable Energy

• The role of renewables
• Developing hydro and wind in B.C.
• Case study: Kokish River Hydroelectric Project

Doug Stout
Vice President, Energy Solutions and External Relations
FORTIS BC

The presentation will focus on the potential role of natural gas in the BC power grid - centralized and distributed generation opportunities.

Frank Wszelaki
Chief Operating Officer
Columbia Power Corporation

• Past construction (Arrow Lakes, Brilliant Dam & Expansion)
• Current construction (Waneta Expansion)
• Future growth (areas & models to build from)

4:30

Conference Adjourns for the Day

March 6, 2013

8:15

Continental Breakfast

9:00

Opening Remarks from Co-Chairs

9:15

Power Smart and Energy Conservation Initiatives

Lisa Coltart
Executive Director
Power Smart, Customer Care and Communications
BC Hydro

The presentation will focus on the BC experience on how energy efficiency and conservation is still one of the most promising opportunities on the energy landscape in North America and how this fits within BC's energy mix for today and into the future.

Sarah Smith
Director, Energy Efficiency and Conservation
FortisBC

• Conservation and energy efficiency as a key alternative to supply-side resources for British Columbia
• Economic benefits of conservation and energy efficiency activity
• The future of conservation and energy efficiency in British Columbia

10:30

Networking Coffee Break

10:45

New Developments in Incentive Regulation in BC and Beyond

Philip W. Nakoneshny
Director Rates
BC Utilities Commission

• Experience with BC utility multi-year incentive rates
• Maintaining productivity improvements when the incentive period ends

Gordon E. Kaiser
Former Vice-Chair
Ontario Energy Board

• How do the Ontario and Alberta proposals compare with BC developments
• Will these work given the substantial capital investment that the LDCs must make over the next 10 years?

11:30

New BC Administrative Penalty Regime

Jeff Christian
Partner
Lawson Lundell LLP

• New administrative penalty powers of BCUC
• Administrative penalty proceedings
  • what will hearings look like?
  • what are the institutional implications for BCUC?

Gordon E. Kaiser
Former Vice-Chair
Ontario Energy Board

The presentation will highlight the ten biggest problems regulators face in compliance hearings: FERC and the OEB experiences

12:15

Networking Luncheon

1:15

BC LNG – Opportunities and Challenges

Dave Byng
Deputy Minister
Ministry of Jobs, Tourism and Skills Training
and Minister Responsible for Labour, BC

LNG labour and local effects:

• The opportunity: billions in investment, thousands of jobs in Northern BC
• The big picture: infrastructure investments and accumulative affect
• The challenge: meeting job needs in a regional and sectoral context
• Supply solutions: local, provincial, national, and international workers
• Next steps: collaboration and employer engagement

Matt Horne
Director, Climate Change Program
Pembina Institute

The presentation will focus on greenhouse gas emissions associated with B.C.'s LNG strategy and whether or not those can be aligned with the province's climate change objectives.

Chief Councilor Ellis Ross
Haisla First Nation

• BC LNG approval a "game changer" for the Haisla people
• Sustained revenue opportunities
• Creating employment opportunities
• Expectations for annual exports of LNG
• How BC LNG got to their approval stage so quickly as compared to KLNG

3:00

Networking Refreshment Break

3:15

Powering LNG Plants – Optimizing Our Chances for Further Growth

John B. Carson
Chief Executive Officer
Alterra Power Corp.

• Powering the LNG build-out: thinking through renewable vs. gas-powered
• A review of stakeholder implications: industry, provincial and federal government, First Nations, private citizens and others
• Short-term vs. long-term considerations: optimizing our chances for further growth

Zoher Meratla
Principal
CDS Research Ltd.

A Proponent Perspective:

• Operating power demand and implementation phases
• Construction phase power demand
• Emergency power demand
• Key factors affecting power supply decisions
• Advantages/ disadvantages of onsite power generation
• Advantages/disadvantages of external power generation
• Eventual implementation – expected to be a combination of onsite and offsite power generation

Nigel Protter
Executive Director
BC Sustainable Energy Association

• BC's LNG export plans represent a 180° energy policy shift for BC, from one centered on climate change leadership and renewables self-sufficiency to one focused on very large-scale hydrocarbon extraction and exports powered by massive new increments of fossil-fuelled power generation
  
• Few in BC realize the incredible scale of new generation capacity that will be required to power these LNG exports, and this new capacity will likely increase BC's own CO2 and other combustion emissions by more than an order of magnitude
• Even fewer realize the enormous financial risk involved in the plan, since it is far from certain that the price we need to get for our gas in Asia will be at a price foreign customers will be willing to pay

4:45

Accreditation

This program has been approved by the Law Societies of Saskatchewan and British Columbia for 13 hours.

For Alberta lawyers, consider including this course as a CPD learning activity in your mandatory annual Continuing Professional Development Plan as required by the Law Society of Alberta.

• Executives and Managers from:
  • Electric Utilities
  • Power Aggregators, Marketers and Brokers
  • Electrical Equipment Manufacturers
  • Power Generators and Service Companies
• Energy, Environmental and Aboriginal Lawyers, Advisors and Consultants

• Representatives of Aboriginal Organizations
• Investors and Financial Officers
• Regulators and Officials from Federal, Provincial and Local Government Bodies
• Experts, Officials and Representatives of environment, resources and economic development interest groups

Dear Colleagues:

B.C.'s rapidly evolving energy landscape ensures it is and will remain a central point of focus for government, companies and customers alike. In the past year, the provincial government has shared its goals of accelerating the development of B.C.'s natural gas resources through the announcement of its LNG and other natural gas strategies. At the same time, the new provincial requirements for BC Hydro's electricity self-sustainability ensure that electricity and power generation issues remain of interest to British Columbians.

Since the last B.C. Power Summit in 2010, natural gas has increasingly been considered an option for power generation and is fast becoming a fuel of choice for the transportation industry. Meeting B.C.'s future needs is a concrete requirement and doing so sustainably and economically will not only be a key challenge but also an opportunity.

Integrated resource planning for cost-effective expansion provides certainty for the future. Holding a place in B.C.'s energy mix, energy efficiency and conservation remains one of the most promising opportunities on the energy landscape as a key alternative to supply-side resources. We must also look at development across B.C., focusing on development of opportunities and sources of capital for First Nations participation in the energy sector.

The speakers at the B.C. Power Summit have all played a leading role in these issues and are well-positioned to offer valuable insight into each of them. Conference attendees will have opportunities to pose questions and engage in informal discussions during the event. All attendees will be provided with conference materials prepared by the speakers. This conference is a unique opportunity to gain information valuable to your business on an element of strategic importance not only to the provincial economy but to British Columbians' quality of life.

Executives and managers of energy utilities, significant energy-consumers, IPPs, First Nations and power marketers, will all find this Insight Information's 8th B.C. POWER SUMMIT invaluable, as will lawyers, consultants, government employees and regulators.

We invite you all to attend!

Doug Stout
Vice President, Energy Solutions and External Relations
FortisBC

Paul Wilson
Partner
Fasken Martineau, LLP

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