Renewable Energy Conference

Agenda Sessions

Storage is the theme of this year's conference featuring eight sessions and three keynote speeches. In addition to the agenda sessions, delegates have the opportunity to visit the exhibit showcases situated in the conference's Market Café, a café style refreshment area. It offers delegates the opportunity to view the latest in products and services from exhibiting sponsors in a "Business to Business" networking atmosphere. For information click here.

Please note times, topics and speakers are subject to change and as speakers confirm their names will appear in bold.

Tuesday, April 16th, 2013
Time	Session
6:00-7:30am	Exhibitor Setup - Market Café
7:30-8:30am	Registration and Welcome Refreshments
8:30-8:45am	Welcoming Remarks Luciano Lisi Conference Co-Chair
8:45-8:55am	Savage: Welcoming A Sustainable Energy Future Halifax's mayor Mike Savage provides a welcome and insight on Halifax's high level commitment to a sustainable energy future and the collective economic, social, and environmental opportunities they provide.
9:00-9:30am	Keynote Opening Address Daniel Kenway CEO, Shipstone Corp. STORAGE - The Missing Link? Mr. Kenway's keynote will address many of the industry's new storage concepts that are being designed to help renewable energy become a more competitive and sustainable supply for consumers. Shipstone is a leader in compression technology for a variety of renewable energy storage applications. Wind and solar energy developers are courting many of the latest technologies including pump storage utilizing underwater balloons or underground caverns, but what's next? What challenges will these new technologies face when aligning with existing infrastructure? Is storage the "missing link" to developing renewable energy projects? Proudly sponsored by:
9:30-10:30am	Session I Wind This session will elaborate on the variety of storage technologies available to wind producers and the challenges these partnerships will face. Moderator: McInnes Cooper Guest Speakers: Lukas Swan Director, Renewable Energy Storage Laboratory Dalhousie University Shawna Eason Atlantic Canada Regional Director, CanWea Proudly sponsored by:
10:30-11:00am	Networking & Refreshment Break - Market Café
11:00-12:00pm	Session II Smart Technology This session will focus on smart grid and clean technologies and how they integrate with storage opportunities for communities and commercial sectors including Micro-grid and the Carbon-saver technologies. Moderator: Shawn Duncan, VP, Strum Environmental Guest Speakers: Eduardo Vaz Director, Project Development, LightSail Canada Mike Bonga Reliability Specialist, AKA-Group Proudly sponsored by:
12:00-1:30pm	Keynote Luncheon Dr. David Wheeler on The Future for Renewables in Atlantic Canada Dr. Wheeler played a significant role in developing Nova Scotia's Renewable Energy Plan released in 2010. Since then the landscape for renewables has changed and will continue to do so. David's keynote will focus on those changes and what they mean for the future of renewables in the region. Proudly sponsored by:
1:30-3:00pm	Session III The Latest Storage Technologies This session will look at Glen Dimplex's "Quantum" system, the exciting " flywheel" technologies, lithium-ion SuperPolymer storage batteries, reforming natural gas to produce high-purity hydrogen with CarbonSaver, tidal storage developments, and many of the leading storage technologies that are being designed to provide stability in supply and competitive pricing for renewable energy developers and utilities. Moderator: Mark Durant, Director New Business development, Nedco Guest Speakers: Ronan Furlong Director Operations, The Green Way David Anders Project Manager, Temporal Power Mike Oliver VP, Atlantic Hydrogen Alexander McIsaac Associate, NRStor Inc. Dana Morin Director-Business Development, Fundy Tidal Raj DasGupta Electrovaya Proudly sponsored by:
3:00-3:30pm	Networking & Refreshment Break - Market Café
3:30-4:30pm	Session IV Solar and Bioenergy Innovations Here we look at the latest advancements and commercial applications in solar pv, biomass, and other renewable energy forms such as biogas which are looking at playing a role in energy storage and it's potential flexibility for grid management. Moderator: James MacDuff, McInnes Cooper Guest Speakers: Rob Sedgwick General Manager, SAGE Energy Inc. Art Schaafsma, Executive Director CARES Ex-Officio Director BioGas Association Gary Bennett, Business Development Lockheed Martin Co. Ltd. Proudly sponsored by:
4:30-5:30pm	Conference Reception All conference delegates are invited to an evening reception to wrap up the day. Proudly sponsored by:
Wednesday, April 17th, 2013
Time	Session
8:30-9:00am	Networking & Refreshments - Market Café
9:00-10:15am	Session V Tidal - Developing A Dream The Bay of Fundy hosts one of the world's most challenging environments for tidal energy development. With several small-scale tidal COMFIT projects connected to the distribution system announced and the commencement of the UARB hearings to establish the Development Tidal Array FIT for larger, transmission-connected projects, this session will provide an update on activities at FORCE and by it’s berthholders and divulge the next steps leading to development for these larger tidal arrays. Invited Moderator: John Woods VP Energy Development, Minas Basin Pulp & Power Co. Invited Speakers: Tony Wright Marine Operations Director, FORCE Gary Bennett, Business Development Lockheed Martin Co. Ltd. Dana Morin Director-Business Development Fundy Tidal Proudly sponsored by:
10:15-10:45am	Networking & Refreshment Break - Market Café
10:45-12:00pm	Session VI *The Future of Renewables and COMFIT* Join in as Mark, John, Luciano and Duncan attempt to look in to the future to determine the costs for renewable energy generation versus fossil fuels in this region and the role for distributed energy. Also, developers now need to understand what risks they can be isolated from by their OEM, and what they still need to prepare for, and by understanding that they can truly optimize their projects for the full life of the power purchase agreement. What are the benefits of the COMFIT program for its stakeholders including universities, municipalities, Mi’kmaw councils, co-operatives or not-for-profits, community economic-development corporations? Moderator: John Harker, Board Chair, LearnCorp International, and Past Chair, Council of Nova Scotia University Presidents Guest Speakers: Luciano Lisi CFO, CBEX Duncan Elliot Sales Canada, Enercon Canada Inc. John Brereton President, Natural Forces Mark Bohn Managing Partner, Travelers Capital Proudly sponsored by:
12:00-1:30pm Lunch served 12:00-12:30pm	Luncheon Session Visions for an Atlantic Power Pool This luncheon session will wrap up the conference by asking how an Atlantic Power Pool (APP) might benefit the Atlantic provinces? Has New England's NEPOOL set the stage for other pools? How would a Virtual Power Plant concept align with a proposed Atlantic Power Pool and mega energy projects in the region? With Special Guest: Jamie Baillie Leader, Progressive Conservative Party of NS Stephen McNeil Leader, Liberal Party of NS Luncheon Guests: John Herron President, Atlantica Centre for Energy Wayne Groszko Renewable Energy Coordinator, Ecology Action Centre Catherine Abreu Energy Coordinator, Ecology Action Centre Dan Roscoe COO, Scotian WindFields Inc. Proudly sponsored by: Note: The session previously scheduled entitled "Update: Muskrat Falls and The Maritime Link Project" has been postponed.
1:30-3:00pm	Exhibit Teardown