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Ontario Network for Sustainable Energy Policy (ONSEP) Workshop
27-29 April 2015. Draft Programme
Waring House
395 Sandy Hook Rd, Picton, ON K0K 2T0
(613) 476-7492
Monday, 27 April
4:00pm: Check in and registration
5:00-5:15pm: Welcome and introductions
5:15-6:00pm: Opening keynote. George Hoberg, University of British Columbia
6:00-7:00pm: Reception
7:00pm: Dinner
Tuesday, 28 April
7:00-8:30am: Breakfast
8:30-10:30am: Renewables (Chair: Nic Rivers)
1) Harris Berton, Daniel Rosenbloom & James Meadowcroft, Carleton. Innovation (or lack thereof) in Ontario PV
Installation: Preliminary Results from a Survey of Ontario’s Largest Solar Installers
2) Matthias Purdon. Trent University. Contested Countrysides: Landscape Identities and Wind Energy Planning
3) Jennifer Taylor. U of T. Fact or fiction? Exploring the rhetorical dimension of the scientific debate over the health impacts
of wind turbines
4) Chad Walker & Jamie Baxter. Western. Health as a driving force: Theories describing Ontario’s wind turbine resistance
movement
10:30-11:00am: Break
11:00-12:00pm: Electricity & grids I (Chair: James Meadowcroft)
5) Bronwyn Lazowski, Paul Parker & Ian Rowlands. Stimulating Residential Electricity Consumption Shifts Using Smart Grid
Tools
6) Madeleine McPherson & Bryan Karney. U of T. A Novel Variable Renewable Energy Integration Model for Evaluating
Electricity System Policies
12:00-1:00pm: Lunch
1:00-2:00pm: Electricity & grids II (Chair: Stephen Hill)
7) Gord Stephen & Ian Rowlands. Waterloo. Working for socio-economic equity in Ontario's emerging Smart Grid:
Historical analogues and lessons from other jurisdictions
8) Brett Dolter. York. Greening the Saskatchewan Grid
2:00-2:15pm: Break
2:15-3:30pm: Teaching energy efficiency (Chair: Peter Love)
9) Panelists TBC.
4:15-6:00pm: Wine tour and tasting. Norman Hardie and Granges (optional; $15/person additional cost)
7:00pm: Dinner
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Wednesday, 29 April
7:00-8:30am: Breakfast
8:30-10:00am: Conventional systems (Chair: Don Dewees)
10) Jennifer McKellar. UOIT. Forecasting Trends in Future Oil Sands Industry Greenhouse Gas Emissions
11) Jotham Peters & Nic Rivers. U of Ottawa. Greenhouse gas implications of the energy east pipeline proposal
12) Daniel Hoornweg & Mehdi Hossein. UOIT. Exploring Alternative Transportation and Energy Options in the Toronto
Region: Electric and Natural Gas Vehicles
10:00-10:30am: Break
10:30-12:00pm: Sustainable energy policy (Chair: Adam Fremeth)
13) Alberto Romero, Dean Millar & Monica Carvalho. MIRARCO/Laurentian/Paraiba. Increasing energy sustainability by
understanding consumer's behavior of large scale, energy intensive industries: the mining case
14) Vincent Defresne & Stephan Schott. Carleton. Opportunities and barriers to RE projects in arctic remote diesel
community grids.
15) Matthew Brady. Carleton. Understanding Energy Strategies and Transition Management from a Socio-Technical
Perspective: The Empty Space of Heating Policy
12:00-1:00pm: ONSEP working lunch; Prospects/next steps discussion
1:30pm onwards: Departure or field trip. Belleville South Solar Farm, Northland Power (TBC)