Watch now: IESVic and EMH Energy Dialogue Symposium
Thank you to the hardworking teams at the Institute for Integrated Energy Systems and the Energy Modelling Hub for organizing a successful symposium.
Watch now! View the symposium agenda and full list of recordings here.
Session 1: International landscape – inter-regional transmission policy
Outline: This session will provide an international perspective on inter-regional transmission policy, status, barriers, and opportunities with presentations from Europe, the USA, Japan, the UK and Canada. Presenters are part of the IEA Task 25 working group.
Session 2: International landscape – offshore wind integration and enhanced grid utilization
Outline: This session will explore grid development needs for offshore wind and present advanced strategies for enhancing network operations, with presentations from Europe and North America.
Session 3: BC- AB intertie – history, status, issues, policy and politics
Outline: This session will dive deeper into the BC-AB intertie line specifically: its history, why it has been derated, regulatory structure that governs it, and how it is impacted by the market structure in Alberta. Speakers include utilities, regulators, operators, and investors from BC and Alberta.
Session 4: Recommendations – policy, markets & regulatory reform
Outline: This session will focus on the policy, politics, market, and regulatory reform that would be required to spur the energy transition and transmission integration more specifically. Speakers include individuals who have proposed options to revise market , cost allocation and regulatory structures so that they are more conducive to transmission expansion.
Session 5: Indigenous leadership in transmission development
Outline: This session will focus on Indigenous leadership in transmission development, featuring local Indigenous leaders and their developer allies.
Session 6: Climate & Resilience
Outline: This session will focus on the greater need for resilience as the climate changes, and the role that inter-regional transmission can play in this shift.