Transmission Interconnections: Lessons Learned from the U.S. and Canada

Wednesday, October 25, 2023

14:00 - 15:00

Location: Palomino E, BMO Centre

Concurrent Session Moderator(s)

Adam M. Rosso (he/him/his)

Senior Vice President, Development, North America
Boralex
Milton, Ontario, Canada

Concurrent Session Speaker(s)

Nick Martin (he/him/his)

Director of Electrification
The Transition Accelerator
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Darren Suarez (he/him/his)

Vice President, Public Affairs and Communications, North America
Boralex
South Glens Falls, New York, United States
Aron Willis (he/him/his)

Executive Vice President, Growth
TransAlta Corporation
Calgary, Alberta, Canada

In Canada, companies continually strive to find new and innovative ways to access transmission lines within their jurisdictions, and to increase the number and size of these connections. Encouragingly, Canada’s renewable energy fleet is growing, with a diversity of projects connecting to networks across the country. But to meet current renewable energy targets, the industry is going to have to significantly scale up its transmission-level interconnections. Creative and diligent policy advocacy will be critical in the near-term, to address concerns over long connection queues in the U.S. and Canada, congestion, and unclear procurement and incentive programs. This session will discuss areas where developers and advocates are finding successes, and using innovative thinking to access every opportunity to bring clean power to a non-emitting grid.