TOPIC
#1:
DEFINING BIOMASS FOR A NUMBER OF
PURPOSES (SUCH AS WASTE), AND
ELIMINATING REGULATORY BARRIERS AND
HARMONIZING REGULATION
A) INTRA-PROVINCIAL AND INTER-PROVINCIAL
B) CANADA-U.S. AND INTERNATIONAL
Panelist:
Ryan Little, Vice President, StormFisher Biogas
PRESENTATION OVERVIEW
In 2008, Ontario-based StormFisher
Biogas received $350 million in backing
to develop biogas plants across North
America. As a result, Ontario is now
home to the world's most highly-funded
biogas company in the world, and yet is
still an emerging market in this form of
renewable energy. Ryan Little will speak
about the challenges facing renewable
energy developers in Ontario, what the
Green Energy Act could mean for
renewable energy development, and what
the provincial and federal governments
can do to put Ontario out front.
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A
special presentation was made by
Robert Lyng, Senior Advisor, Ontario
Power Generation Incorporated
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TOPIC
#2:
UPDATING INFRASTRUCTURE
A)
RELATING TO POWER GENERATION
Panelist:
Mark Graham, Director,
Investment Policy and Agreements, Hydro
One
PRESENTATION OVERVIEW
Ontario's transmission and distribution
(T&D) systems were developed mainly to
take power from large centralized power
plants and deliver it to consumers. As
Ontario moves to a more distributed
electricity generation mix, driven in
many ways by the desire to move our
supply to cleaner, renewable sources,
the T&D systems need to be updated to
allow the connection of these new
generators, and to enable their output
to reach consumers.
The
presentation will cover basic
information on the constraints that
exist in the current T&D systems, how
this will be affected by the expected
passage of the Green Energy Act and the
associated enactment of a Feed-In Tariff
program, and what Hydro One is doing to
prepare for these changes.
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B)
RELATING TO NATURAL GAS DISTRIBUTION
Panelist:
Bryan Goulden, Manager, Market
Development, Union Gas
PRESENTATION OVERVIEW
Bryan Goulden will discuss the merits of
a "second option" for biogas. This
option involves generating biogas by
existing technologies, then cleaning and
filtering the gas to produce biomethane
for injection into the natural gas
distribution grid. Operational and
market opportunities associated with
this approach will be identified, as
well as the current challenges that need
to be overcome.
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C)
RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION AND LOGISTICS
Panelist:
Tom Sagaskie, General Manager,
Guelph Junction Railway
PRESENTATION OVERVIEW
The utilization of biomass as a green
fuel source for electrical power
generation is a near term reality as
demonstrated by successful tests. The
challenges of implementation include the
movement of vast volumes of pelletized
biomass fuel pellets to electrical power
generation facilities. Both Nanticoke
and Lambton generation facilities can be
accessed by water (the most efficient
but seasonal) which will facilitate wood
pellet movements in Northern Ontario.
It is
estimated that Ontario can produce 10mT
of wood fuel pellets and 10mT of agri-product
fuel pellets annually. This translates
into sustainable green energy production
of approximately 3600MW. To put the
green fuel requirements into
perspective; think of 10mT as 400 great
lake ships, 270,000 transport trucks or
110,000 rail cars.
The secure delivery of pelletized fuel
requires a combination of marine and
rail movement. The sheer volume of
trucks and truck traffic generated
eliminates it from serious
consideration. One of the largest
sources of base materials for agri-product
pellets will be the crop lands of
southern and south western Ontario. It
is essential that multiple pelletizing
facilities be created and the growing
area be divided into nine regions
facilitating local sourcing with minimum
trucking and serviced by secondary/short
line railways. These secondary rail
lines would then undertake a multiple
roll, direct service of pelletizing
plants, rail traffic aggregation points
and ultimately a rail connection which
leads to the generating facilities.
In
moving forward it is important to
realise that two or three years lead
time is necessary to construct the
pelletizing plants with supporting
infrastructure and commitment to
purchase will be necessary in order to
attract private investment. It is
imperative that necessary decisions be
made in a timely fashion.
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SESSION TWO BIOGRAPHIES
Session
Chair- Robert Tmej, Senior Policy
Advisor, Ministry of Energy and
Infrastructure
As a
senior policy advisor in the Renewables
and Energy Efficiency Division of the
Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure,
Mr. Tmej works on various files
including: agricultural energy
generation and conservation, energy
efficiency technology, hydrogen and fuel
cell applications, and policy
development with public and private
sector stakeholders.
With the Ministry of Energy (and
Environment), Mr. Tmej assisted in
developing and implementing the Green
Communities Initiative throughout
Ontario. Prior to rejoining the OPS in
2001, Robert worked in the construction
and renovation industry focusing on
energy efficiency, solar, wind and
hydronic heating systems.
With the
Ministry of Economic Development and
Trade, he developed policy on industrial
manufacturing and represented the
province on skilled trades, technology
transfer, air emissions policy issues
and distributed generation technologies.
Mr. Tmej
has a degree in geography from York
University, is a past Board member of
the Energy Action Council of Toronto
that received a CMHC Healthy Housing
Design Competition Award. He is also
President of a charitable institute that
includes a seniors' housing complex and
cultural and recreational facility in
Scarborough.
Panelist- Ryan Little, Vice President,
StormFisher Biogas
Ryan
Little is Co-Founder and Vice President
of Business Development of StormFisher
Biogas, a Canadian-based renewable
energy company that converts food
processing by-products into natural gas,
electricity and fertilizer. With $350
million in project capital available to
develop 30 projects in the next five
years, StormFisher has the largest pool
of capital in the world to develop
biogas plants. Prior to co-founding
StormFisher, Ryan launched a firm that
would eventually become the world's
first business-to-business e-commerce
application for the energy industry,
where he would garner the distinction of
being Canada's youngest CEO of an
incorporated company. Later, during his
first year at Queen's University in 1999
and with proceeds from his success with
his web services firm, he co-founded an
online charity, CanadaHelps, which has
raised more than $85 million in
charitable donations to date. Ryan holds
a BA from Queen's University and an MBA
from the Richard Ivey School of Business
at the University of Western Ontario. He
is regularly featured in business
publications, speaks to audiences
worldwide about social and
environmentally-conscious
entrepreneurship, and is the recipient
of several awards, especially for his
work in the charitable sector.
Panelist- Mark Graham, Director,
Investment Policy and Agreements, Hydro
One
Mark
Graham is Director, Investment Policy
and Agreements for Hydro One Networks.
Mark is responsible for Hydro One's
investment policies particularly related
to the enablement of new supply in the
province. He also leads Hydro One
efforts related to commercial agreements
with customers for new or enhanced
connections, and with respect to its
relationships and negotiations with
interconnected utilities. Mark is
accountable for regulatory matters
related to Hydro One Networks'
investments in its system.
He has
worked for Hydro One and Ontario Hydro
for 27 years, in the areas of finance,
corporate planning, regional management
and asset management. He also managed
the first renewables generation RFP in
Ontario in 2004, on secondment to the
Ontario government.
Panelist- Bryan Goulden, Manager, Market
Development, Union Gas
Bryan
Goulden is the Manager, Market
Development, for Union Gas Limited. His
responsibilities include the
identification and strategy development
for non-traditional growth opportunities
at Union, such as using biogas as a
renewable supply source for the natural
gas distribution business. He has
previous experience at Union Gas in the
energy technology, industrial marketing
and regulatory areas of Union's
business. Bryan is a professional
engineer (mechanical) and has a Master's
in Business Administration.
Panelist- Tom Sagaskie, General Manager,
Guelph Junction Railway
An early
graduate of Ontario's Community College
system, Tom holds a Diploma in
Mechanical Technology from Conestoga
College. Tom spent the next three
decades employed in the City of Guelph's
City Engineers office undertaking
various municipal and civil engineering
projects as well as responsibility for
utility coordination and right of way
space utilization. In 2000 Tom became
the General Manager of the Guelph
Junction Railway, a local short line
railway, which is wholly owned by the
City of Guelph. Tom is a chartered
member of the Institute of Logistics and
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