ONTARIO POWER SUMMIT

MAY 9, 2011

8:00

Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00

Welcoming Remarks from Insight

9:05

Looking Back at the Premise of a Decade Ago – Who Would Have Predicted This?

David J. McFadden, Q.C.
Chair of Gowlings International
Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
Chair of the Conference

Dr. Jan Carr 
Board Member
Alberta Electric System Operator

• Context and promise of competition in electricity – why we abandoned Ontario Hydro
• Errors and omissions in the first lap – supply-side focus at the expense of customers
• Taking stock of our current predicament – cross-subsidies and economic unsustainability
• Setting a new destination and beginning the journey – avoiding another grand plan

9:45

The Government’s New Electricity Plan—Putting the Solutions in Place

Colin Andersen
Chief Executive Officer
Ontario Power Authority

• How Ontario’s new long-term plan (IPSP) will contribute to a sustainable and reliable electricity system for the future
• Ongoing refinement of the FIT program and other clean energy procurement initiatives
• The outlook for electricity prices
• New conservation targets and programs that will help both businesses and consumers manage their electricity bills

Rosemarie T. Leclair 
Chair and Chief Executive Officer
Ontario Energy Board

In light of the significant role network investment will play in the electricity sector under the government’s new electricity plan, the Board has begun the development of a renewed regulatory framework for electricity. Under this framework, the Board has undertaken a number of inter-related initiatives to:

• Create conditions that will foster the cost-effective and efficient implementation of Board-approved network investment plans, including standards for performance and efficiency, and appropriate incentives
• Ensure that distributor investment plans are demonstrably economically efficient and cost-effective
• Provide utilities and the Board with a set of tools, approaches or options to help mitigate the effects of unavoidable and significant bill impacts

Paul Murphy
President and Chief Executive Officer
IESO

• Addressing the challenges in order to reliably and efficiently implement new renewable generation
• Flexibility a key component on the supply side … consumer engagement a priority on the demand side
• Ontario’s leadership in the implementation of smart meters and time of use pricing will help in the development of the smart grid

11:15

Networking Coffee Break

11:30

Evolution and the Future of LDC’s in the Green Energy World

Moderator: Bruce Campbell
Vice-President-Resource Integration
IESO

Brian Bentz
President and Chief Executive Officer, PowerStream
Past Chair, Electricity Distributors Association (EDA)

• Redefining the role of the Local Distribution Company
• Development and integration of new technologies (e.g. renewable generation, battery electric vehicles)
• Championing emerging energy solutions
• Successfully managing diverse stakeholder expectations

Norm Fraser
Chief operating Officer
Distribution and Customer Service
Hydro Ottawa

Local Distribution Companies are being confronted by many new and conflicting challenges. Customer expectations are increasing, the electrical infrastructure is aging, our workforce is retiring, costs and prices are on the rise, our system is becoming smarter, greener and more dispersed, and our employees will require new, non-traditional skills. These issues are all high priority and dealing with them will require us to be nimble, creative and customer-centric.

Jim Hogan
President and Chief Executive Officer
Chatham-Kent Energy Inc.

Chatham-Kent Energy has taken on a unique leadership role in promoting renewable generation and other programs to support the greening of the electricity industry in Ontario. By working closely with the Municipality of Chatham-Kent, its majority shareholder, Corix Utilities, its minority shareholder, along with the many developers and the residents there will be over 500 mWs of renewable generation installed by 2012 with many more awaiting approval.

Ivano N. Labricciosa
Vice President, Asset Management
Toronto Hydro Electric System Limited

Successes, and difficulties, in managing the “greener and cleaner” DG file:
Ontario’s electricity future must be based on the appropriate balance of cleaner, and greener, generation. Urban environments provide opportunities to introduce small and medium-sized distributed generation plants to the grid, and Toronto needs innovative solutions to increase the security of supply to the city.
With these opportunities come unique challenges as utilities address grid connection issues, customer interactions around new technologies, limited “footprint” availability for distributed generation and local community involvement in plant siting.

1:00

The Honourable Brad Duguid
Ontario Minister of Energy

1:30

Networking Luncheon

2:30

Objectives that are Driving the Development of New Transmission in the Province

Carmine Marcello 
Executive Vice-President, Strategy
Hydro One Inc.

• The Long Term Energy Plan: implications for transmission and the renewable generation
• Strategic approaches to competitive transmission
• Supporting with generators by managing regulatory, community and property owner obligations in a manner that brings certainty to the timing of their projects
• Taking the long-term view: building the system to last through prudent planning, appropriate application of emerging technologies

Steven Lindley
Vice President, Aboriginal and Northern Affairs
SNC-Lavalin Inc.

• Community power in remote northwestern Ontario – opportunities for change
• Opportunities and challenges of interconnecting remote communities in northwestern Ontario

3:30

Networking Refreshment Break

3:45

Is There an Electricity Market in Ontario?

Gary Newcombe 
Vice President of Government and Regulatory Affairs
Direct Energy

• Ontario’s electricity market is not currently designed to foster true competition
• Competition can deliver value to consumers, as demonstrated in other markets
• Retail solutions are available; however, the change has to start with a robust, well-defined market structure for both the wholesale and retail electricity markets

Adam White
President
Association of Major Power Consumers in Ontario

• An energy-only market was never going to work in Ontario and it’s naive to expect an evolution towards that state
• The IESO pool market, however, functions effectively as an index of marginal energy cost, delivering many of the benefits that an energy-only market was intended to deliver in terms of efficient dispatch of resources and price discovery
• Other jurisdictions have adopted a range of strategies to overcome the shortcomings of their energy markets including capacity markets, vested contracts, and load-serving entities. Ontario’s approach has been to rely on the role of the state to plan, procure and manage contracts for capacity
• The ability of economic regulation to make good choices where the market never was intended to operate
• Future success or failure will depend to a large degree on the ability of economic regulation in Ontario to enforce investor discipline, promote efficiency, and protect the interests of consumers

4:45

The More You Know... Messaging the Smart Grid to Consumers

F. Michael Valocchi
Vice-President/Partner
IBM Global Business Services
Global Energy and Utilities Leader

IBM recently completed its third Global Utility Consumer Survey, compiling about 8000 responses over 17 countries between August and December of 2010.

Analyzing the data in the context of the elevated visibility of smart grids and smart meters among the consumers over the past two years in many nations, we attempted to understand the reactions - positive and negative - that have been observed.  This presentation will discuss some of our findings, including:

• Consumer expectations are running high, and many feel that the things that are most important to them are not the ones on which their providers are focusing.
• The more informed a consumer is - not just about smart grid and smart meter topics, but about all aspects of energy usage and providers - the more likely they are to be supportive of smart meter and smart grid deployment and to be willing to change behavior to reach personal and societal goals.
• Where and from whom consumers get energy information has a significant impact on the consumers? Perceptions about their providers and their plans.
• The levels of motivation and the key motivating factors for changes in behavior differ with changes in income, age, and demonstrated interest in managing energy usage to meet certain goals.

5:15

Cocktail Reception

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MAY 10, 2011

8:15

Continental Breakfast

9:00

Opening Remarks by the Chair

9:10

Tim Hudak
Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader

9:45

Nuclear in the Ontario Long Term Energy Plan

Moderator: Brian Armstrong, Q.C.
Executive Vice President and General Counsel
Bruce Power

Wayne Robbins
Chief Nuclear Officer
Ontario Power Generation

OPG’s perspective on how the nuclear industry can deliver value to the province and the ratepayers.

Hugh MacDiarmid 
President and Chief Executive Officer
AECL

• Putting nuclear energy back on the agenda in Canada and abroad will result in an expected doubling of worldwide installed nuclear generation capacity by 2030
• Providing safe, clean, reliable energy to meet Ontario’s growing demand and environmental objectives
• Growing opportunities for CANDU domestically and internationally. Future prospective CANDU new build reactors and CANDU life extension projects in Ontario
• Through partnerships and a strong Canadian supply chain – located mainly in Ontario – CANDU technology can become one of the true growth engines of Canada’s future economy, with major benefits to Ontario

10:45

Networking Coffee Break

11:00

Does Renewable Energy Provide the Solution?

Moderator: Sean Conway
Chair, Board of Directors
Ontario Centres of Excellence

Donald N. Dewees
Professor of Economics and Law
Department of Economics, University of Toronto

• We should assess renewables in terms of their cost per ton of CO2 avoided along with any other environmental benefits
• Sources that will generate when prices are high should be paid more than other sources
• Job creation benefits should be carefully scrutinized
• Research and development will reduce the cost of some renewable technologies in the future
• For the near future, renewables should play only a small part in our generation mix

Mike Crawley
Chief Executive Officer AIM PowerGen

• Power supply needs in Ontario over the next 10 years
• Ontario air quality challenges
• Various power supply options
• How wind fits into a diversified supply mix

Paul Norris
President
Ontario Waterpower Association

• The economic, environmental and energy case for more waterpower
• The increased need for waterpower’s flexibility
• A focus on the Far North

12:15

Networking Luncheon

1:15

Smart Grid and Emerging Energy Technologies – New Trends for a New Decade

Networking Refreshment Break will be Announced

Moderator: Sean Conway
Chair, Board of Directors
Ontario Centres of Excellence

What technologies and trends are emerging that could potentially change our business forever? What are the potential impacts of these emerging trends on the regulated business model and to traditional players in the energy value chain?

Moderator:
Dan McGillivray, Ph.D.
Managing Director
Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE)
Centre of Excellence for Energy

Dr. Ian Rowlands 
Professor, Environment and Resource Studies
University of Waterloo

This presentation will report upon work completed on the Energy Hub Management System project. A multistakeholder partnership, it is developing smart grid-related pilots in residential, commercial/institutional, industrial and agricultural sectors. Progress on, and prospects for the project are reported upon, with the integration of technical and social knowledge and learning being a prominent theme.

Nicholas Komarnycky 
Director of Engineering – Photovoltaics
ARISE Technologies Corporation

• Renewable solar technologies and innovative strategies
• Research and development using leapfrog technologies – finding difficult solar answers in innovative new ways
• New approaches for success by Government, Academia, and industrial partners

Dr. Rajiv K. Varma 
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Western Ontario

• Novel nighttime application of PV solar farms
• Improvement of power transmission capacity, voltage regulation and enhanced wind power integration with orders of magnitude lower cost compared to conventional techniques.
• New opportunities for solar farms to earn revenues in the night, in addition to that from the sale of real power during the day

3:30

The program will have most direct appeal to:

• Executives of Provincial Crown Corporations, Investor-owned Utilities and Municipal Utilities
• Industrial, Commercial and Institutional Users of Electricity
• Electric and Gas Utilities Stockholders
• Power Aggregators, Marketers and Brokers
• Lawyers, Advisors and Consultants
• Investors and Financial Officers

• Executives from Independent Power Generators and Service Companies
• Regulators and Officials from Federal, Provincial and Local Government Bodies
• Electrical Equipment Manufacturers
• Experts, Officials and Representatives of Interest Groups in Environment, Resources and Economic Development

Dear Colleague:

I wish to invite you to attend Insight Information’s 10th Annual ONTARIO POWER SUMMIT.

It has now been 10 years since the first Annual Ontario Power Summit took place. A lot has happened in the Ontario electricity sector since spring 2001.

The electricity market opened, closed and then went hybrid. Hydro One was to be partly privatized and then the deal was called off. The Provincial Government changed in 2003 and over the years there have been frequent changes in the Minister of Energy. We have seen the gradual phasing out of coal, the expansion of gas generation and the rapid growth of renewable power particularly with the passage of the Green Energy Act. CDM has spread throughout the province while innovation has taken root with the establishment of the Centre of Excellence for Energy. The future of the nuclear industry in Ontario remains in some doubt. The Ontario Power Authority was established and now plays a critical role in virtually all new power development.

At the 10th Ontario Power Summit, we will start off by reflecting on what has happened over the past 10 years and then look at current developments and consider what might happen in the years to come. We will have at the Power Summit a distinguished roster of speakers drawn from all aspects of the electricity sector as well as from government and politics.

Please join us on May 9 and 10 for what promises to be a highly informative and interesting conference.

David J. McFadden, Q.C. 
Chair of Gowlings International
Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

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

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