Profiling Market Transformation in Ontario

This year at Solar Canada 2015, CanSIA will be bringing together a slate of speakers and panelists who are in the centre of ongoing market evolution in Ontario. Since 2009 and the introduction of the Green Energy Act, Ontario has experienced significant growth in both installed solar capacity as well as market size. Numerous companies entered the market and thrived under the support of the FIT and microFIT programs. As we end the life cycle of these mechanisms (both programs are scheduled to end in 2017/2018), industry and government are turning their minds to what comes next.

In the session titled From Procurement to Market- Based Approaches in Ontario,  participants will discuss the ongoing activities that are tackling the issues of transition from centralized government procurement of renewables, to customer-driven market-based approaches. Representatives from CanSIA's Distributed Generation Task Force and the Ministry of Energy's Net Metering/Self-Consumption Advisory Working Group will provide insight into the challenges and considerations that feed into this work and an overview of the overarching policy and system context will be provided to ground these practical endeavours in the larger picture of an evolving provincial electricity sector.