Pacific Energy Innovation Association - PEIA

  An independent, non-profit association of energy professionals

 

Event News

Please click here for an update of our 2024 / 2025 season.  This year there will be three types of events: Energy Breakfasts, Energy Afternoons and Energy Dinners.

2025

Tuesday, March 4th, 2025 – In Person & Simulcast
Registration: 7:15am; Energy Breakfast 7:30am – 8:45 am
Presenter:  Mischa Steiner, CEO and Founder of Awesense
Topic:   "Bridging the Data Gap: Unlocking Grid Intelligence with Data Models"
Location: 333 Dunsmuir St, Vancouver, BC

Tuesday, February 4th, 2025 – In Person & Simulcast
Registration: 7:15am; Energy Breakfast 7:30am – 8:45 am
Presenter:  Jack Saddler, UBC & BC-SMART, The BC-SMART Low Carbon Fuels Consortium
Topic:   “Decarbonizing the Long Distance Transportation Sector”
Location: 333 Dunsmuir St, Vancouver, BC

Tuesday, January 28th 2025 - Energy Dinner

Tuesday, January 7th, 2025 – In Person & Simulcast
Registration: 7:15am; Energy Breakfast 7:30am – 8:45 am
Presenter:  Mike Brown, Chair of the PCF Action Group
Topic:   “Climate Change and Canada’s Economic Future”
Location: 333 Dunsmuir St, Vancouver, BC

2024

Tuesday, October 8th, 2024 – In Person and Simulcast
Registration: 7:15am; Energy Breakfast 7:30am – 8:45 am
Presenter:   Helene Thibieroz, CEO RainIons & Hossein Kazermian, UNBC
Topic:   “RAIN IONS – CO2 and Air Pollution Solved”
Location: 333 Dunsmuir St, Vancouver, BC
 

Tuesday, November 5th, 2024 – In Person & Simulcast
Registration: 7:15am; Energy Breakfast 7:30am – 8:45 am
Presenter:   Paul Blomerus, Executive Director, Clear Seas
Topic:   “Decarbonizing Shipping: Scaling up Production of Net-Zero Greenhouse Gas Ship Fuels”
Location: 333 Dunsmuir St, Vancouver, BC
Stay tuned for more details!

 

Monday, September 23rd, 2024 – In Person Only
3:30 – 5:15pm at UBC
Topic: “UBC Solar: Insights on Solar Power in Transportation and Development of Sustainability Leaders”
Presenters: Julie Ibrahimova, Team Captain and Evan Boileau, Business Team Co-lead
This free event will kick-off the 2024-2025 PEIA Season. One of its goals is to strengthen ties between UBC & energy professionals active in BC…so please join us!
 

Tuesday, June 11th 2024 – In Person & Simulcast

Registration: 7:15am; Energy Breakfast 7:30am – 8:45 am
Presenter:   Kwatuuma Cole Sayers, Exec Director, Clean Energy BC
Topic:   “First Nations Equity & Ownership”
Location: 333 Dunsmuir St, Vancouver, BC
 

Tuesday, May 7th 2024 – In Person & Simulcast

Registration: 7:15am; Energy Breakfast 7:30am – 8:45 am
Presenter:  Madeleine McPherson, PhD, Assistant Prof, University of Victoria
Topic:   “Interprovincial Transmission in Canada:  a Multi-Benefit Analysis”
Location: 333 Dunsmuir St, Vancouver, BC
 

 

Tuesday, April 9th 2024 – In Person & Simulcast
Registration:
 7:15am; Energy Breakfast 7:30am – 8:45 am
Presenter:  Nastaran Arianpoo, Project Lead
Topic:   “Electrification Policy Impact on Land Systems in BC”
Location: 333 Dunsmuir St, Vancouver, BC
 

Tuesday, March 19th 2024 – In Person & Simulcast
Registration:
 7:15am; Energy Breakfast 7:30am – 8:45 am
Presenter:  Sam Mottram & Jaime Villaamil, Knight Piesold Consulting
Topic:   “Pumped Storage Hydro Projects”
Location: 333 Dunsmuir St, Vancouver, BC
 

Wednesday January 31st, 2024 – In Person & Simulcast
Registration:
 7:15am; Energy Breakfast 7:30am – 8:45 am
Presenters: Brianne Riehl, Managing Director, and Jotham Peters, Managing Partner, Navius Research
Topic:   “Demonstration of the Canada Energy Dashboard”
Location: 333 Dunsmuir St, Vancouver, BC
 

Monday, December 4th, 2023 – Webinar
Time: 7:30 – 8:45 a.m.
Presenter: Blake Shaffer, PhD, Associate Professor, Economics & Public Policy, University of Calgary
Topic: “Flexible Demand”
 

Friday, November 17th, 2023 – In Person
Registration: 7:15 a.m.; Energy Breakfast: 7:30 – 8:45 a.m.
Presenter: Canon Bryan, Chief Financial Officer, Terrestrial Energy
Topic: “New Nuclear: Energy For the 21st Century”
 

Tuesday, October 10th, 2023 – In Person
Registration:  7:15 am; Energy Breakfast:  7:30 – 8:45 am
Presenter:  Denise Mullen, Director, Director, Environment, Sustainability & Indigenous Relations at the BC Business Council
Topic:  “Real Cost of Carbon”
Location:  333 Dunsmuir St, Vancouver, BC
 

Monday, September 25th, 2023 – Zoom webinar
Energy Breakfast Webinar: 7:30 – 8:45am (registration not required, no charge)
Presenters: Mary Vasey, Project Manager & Development Team Lead and Janelle Flett, Project Coordinator –  Barkley Project Group
Topic: “The Penelakut Community Solar + Storage Project”
 

Monday, June 5th, 2023 – In person
Registration: 7:15am; Energy Breakfast: 7:30 – 8:45am
Presenter:  Jason Wolfe, Director of Energy Solutions, FortisBC
Topic: “BC’s Energy Landscape”
Location: 333 Dunsmuir St., Vancouver, BC
 

April 4, 2023 – In person
Registration: 7:15am; Energy Breakfast:  7:30 to 8:45am

Presenter: Janos Toth, Founder, Enginomix and CEO RecognAIse Technologies Inc. 
Topic: “The Storage Path to Energy Reliability”
Location: 333 Dunsmuir St., Vancouver, BC
 

February 14, 2023 – In person breakfast meeting!
Presenter: Sumreen Rattan, Co-founder & Chief Operating Officer, Moment Energy
Topic: “Repurposing Electric Vehicle Batteries”
Location: 333 Dunsmuir St., Vancouver, BC