Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO)’s Post

To energy sector innovators: the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO)'s 2024 Grid Innovation Fund (GIF) Proposal Guideline has been posted. This year, the GIF theme is Electrification and Demand Management with a focus on the transportation sector (electric vehicles) and heating/cooling sector. As a result of the energy transition, the electricity system is seeing an increase in demand and changes to electricity usage patterns. With these changes comes an opportunity to explore how the electrification of these two sectors can help support the grid. The IESO is seeking projects that will demonstrate how EVs and weather-sensitive controllable loads can provide system flexibility and be integrated to support the distribution network and bulk electricity system. We are pleased that the Ontario Energy Board’s Innovation Sandbox will play an important role as regulatory partner for this call, providing regulatory guidance to proponents. A Stakeholder Engagement session will be held on April 23, 2024, and proposals will be accepted between May 27 – July 21, 2024. Further information can be found here: https://lnkd.in/dn2mQAAb

We are looking forward to collaborating with the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) on the latest call for proposals for its Grid Innovation Fund.   The fund will invest $9.5 million to support projects that advance electrification and demand management as part of Ontario’s ongoing energy transformation. We will serve as a regulatory partner, where proponents can seek guidance from our Innovation Sandbox in support of their projects https://lnkd.in/gn8eaa6   This year the fund will focus on two streams: electric vehicles and space and water heating and cooling. Anticipating increased demand on Ontario’s electricity system from EVs and heat pumps, successful projects would enable these technologies to contribute to grid flexibility, reliability and affordability.   The application window for the IESO’s Grid Innovation Fund will open in May.   For more information, see: https://lnkd.in/eskWGfma

Thanks Smart Energy Magazine for honouring me among "TOP FIFTY ACHIEVERS & BUSINESS LEADERS FROM CLEAN ENERGY & E-MOBILITY INDUSTRY" in your REI Special Issue of Sep-Oct 24 !!

Come learn about distributed energy resources in the wholesale markets. I’ll be talking about this with some very bright minds.

On June 3rd a retrofit forum will be hosted by Nisga’a Nation, on their Homeland, in partnership with Community Energy Association. Now, we coordinate dozens of training and capacity building events - in fact, over the past couple of years, we have had 700 participants engage in training which has spanned from mechanical system, house-as-a-system, envelope-first, and more. This Nisga’a event is unique. It is the manifestation of our intention to walk with, learn from, and co-create projects that support the priorities of Indigenous communities while building local capacity and fostering long-term resilience. I’m bursting with pride. 🍃Gaëtane, from our Relationships and Reconciliation team, has been spending impactful time in community over the past year and has already successfully secured funding to ensure Nisga’a staff have capacity to support a major retrofit project in development. 🍃Led by Capital Project manager Eric Nyce, we are proceeding with a 40 home deep energy retrofit pilot. 10 homes per Nisga’a community. Their ambition is to address 500 homes over the next few years. 🍃BC’s top trainers and energy retrofit experts are on board and the training is coming to community. They include: Nuxalk hereditary chief, and independent First Nations consultant, Richard Hall, thinkbright Homes owner and committed sustainability expert Meredith Hamstead, President of CHBA BC Mark Bernhardt, Rob Pope of Ecolighten Energy Solutions, James Bourget of RDH and high performance builder Shawn Wiebe. 🍃The case study of a multi-year retrofit initiative at Akisqnuk First Nation will be shared - a project that demonstrated the value of aggregated planning and implementation for deep energy retrofits (more to come on that!!) This project is built on trust and relationships. Not only between CEA and Nisga’a, but with the funders who recognize the value of two-way learning, community-led design and the importance of building local capacity for long-term impact. Thanks to Real Estate Foundation of BC, Canadian Home Builders' Association Northern BC, BC Hydro, FortisBC and the Province of BC.

Today Council of European Energy Regulators (CEER) Customer Conference 2024 will start at 14:00 in European Economic and Social Committee On behalf of European Economic and Social Committee section responsible for Transport, Energy, Infrastructure and Information Society I’m honored to open the conference together with Dr. Annegret Groebel This event follows a very fruitful collaboration between CEER and the EESC spanning on different topics, energy consumers of course, but also the development of the grids, energy poverty and energy affordability. During the conference we will analyse some currently approved legislation (Electricity Market Design reform, Energy Efficiency Directive & Gas Decarbonisation Package) and their optimal implementation by EU energy stakeholders, focusing on consumers’ perspective. We welcome stakeholders joining for the discussions: BEUC - The European Consumer Organisation , the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Energy (DG ENER), REScoop.eu Eurelectric CEDEC- European Federation of Local & Regional Energy Companies, Ofgem the Norwegian Energy Regulatory Authority and many others.

With 43 days, November 16, 2024, marks the day Germany could begin relying on bioenergy for the rest of the year. Germany is the fifteenth EU Member State to celebrate its National Bioenergy Day on this year's listing of Bioenergy Europe's National Bioenergy Days. In my view, countries will adopt various forms of bioenergy to address their energy challenges. Those of us working in the energy product industry are well-prepared for the future.

In 2025 EIU expects little growth in energy demand in Europe. This is due to the continued rollout of ambitious energy-saving measures. Find out where we expect demand to decline in our recent report: http://econgrp.co/O7

Clean Energy Council have released an insightful report 'The future of long duration energy storage' 📖 . Not only is it highlighting leading alternative LDES technologies like RayGen, but is also diving into scenario modelling and policy reforms to support the sector. Christiaan Zuur and Ana Spataru, Dr, thank you for driving the conversation and sharing your perspectives on the LDES market! 👇 https://lnkd.in/gFyTh8Ey

More important developments about adopting Grid Enhancing Technologies!!