Working with the IMO:
Key to an open power market

Conference & Workshops

- Presented by IPPSO and the IMO -

May 26, 1999, Toronto, Ontario


Click here to download a full set of conference proceedings (Please note, these proceedings are in Adobe Acrobat 4 .PDF format, compressed with Winzip and the file is about 5 MB)


Click on one of the following selections to download copies of the papers presented by the IMO, in PDF format


Conference and Workshop Program

8:30 am Welcome and Introduction to Conference

Safouh Soufi, SMS Energy-Engineering, Conference Chair

Keynotes:

Jim Wilson, Ontario Minister of Energy, Science and Technology

James C. Baillie, QC, Chair of Ontario Independent Market Operator

Al Barnstaple, IPPSO

9:45 am Coffee Break

10 am Update on Ontario's IMO

Dave Goulding, President and CEO, Independent Market Operator

Rod Taylor, Ontario Hydro Services Company (Transco)

Les Horswill, Assistant Deputy Minister, Ontario Ministry of Energy, Science and Technology

Questions from the floor

10:45 Training design, commissioning and dry runs

Al Findlay, Customer Relations Manager, IMO

10:55 am Introduction to Workgroups and initial questions

(quick stop for more coffee on way to first breakout session)

11:00 a.m. First Working Group

IMO Bidding, Dispatch, scheduling and control

Session will be led or co-led by representatives of IPPSO and the IMO, as appropriate

12:30 p.m. Buffet or Banquet Lunch

1:00 p.m. Keynote: Karl Wahl, General Manager, Hydro Mississauga, "What a buyer wants to see in the IMO system"

Jim Wilson, Ontario Minister of Energy, Science and Technology
Karl Wahl, General Manager of Hydro Mississauga

James Baillie, Chair Independent Market Operator
1:30 p.m. Facilitated Technical Workshops (participatory)

(Session leaders for each provided by IMO and IPPSO)

l Settlements

l Information Systems (including confidentiality and telecommunications)

l Transmission pricing and service arrangements

l IMO Forward Market

l Market Power Mitigation Agreement Implementation

l Green power issues

3:15 p.m. Coffee Break

3:45 p.m. Return to Plenary

Report from facilitators: Questions for further study

Comments from the audience

Opportunity to question representatives of the IMO Board and staff

Discussion of further meetings

4:45 p.m. Closing

Note: Program subject to change without notice.

The First Ontario Electricity IMO Design Conference and Workshops
Conference Speakers

James Baillie is a partner with the Toronto law firm of Tory Tory Deslauriers and Binnington, and he also chairs the board of the Ontario Independent Market Operator.

Hon. Jim Wilson is Ontario's Minister of Energy, Science and Technology.

Karl Wahl is General Manager and Secretary of Hydro Mississauga.

Dave Goulding is President and CEO of the Independent Market Operator.

Rod Taylor is Senior Vice-President, Network Asset Management Group, Ontario Hydro Services Company.

Les Horswill is Assistant Deputy Minister of Energy.

Al Barnstaple is President of IPPSO.


With thanks to the sponsors of this conference:

Enbridge Consumers Gas, Northland Power, and the Ontario Ministry of Energy, Science and Technology.


Advance Documentation

A range of discussion papers are available for review prior to the conference. Contact IPPSO or the IMO for further information, or visit the websites: iemo.org and marketdesign.org




IPPSO thanks the conference sponsors, the Ontario Ministry of Energy, Science and Technology, Borden & Elliot, Enbridge Consumers Gas, Northland Power, and PriceWaterhouseCoopers, for their assistance with the organization of this process.

For further information, contact:

Independent Power Producers' Society of Ontario (IPPSO)
163-C Eastbourne Ave., Toronto, Canada, M5P 2G5
(416) 322-6549 fax (416) 481-5785 e-mail: ippso@web.net

(The conference location was at the Holiday Inn at 370 King Street West, in downtown Toronto, between University and Spadina Avenues.)