Neetika Sathe – Vice President, PowerStream Inc.

Chair, Board of Directors, NEST Network

Our Changing Energy Landscape:

Business as Unusual

About PowerStream

• Leading energy company that is also the 2nd largest municipally-owned LDC

in Ontario.

• Provides service to more than 380,000 customers residing or owning a business

in 15 communities

• Employs over 500 employees.

• Has more than $1.3 billion in assets.

• Jointly owned by the municipalities of Barrie, Markham and Vaughan.

• Currently undergoing a merger with three other utilities in the Greater Toronto

Hamilton Area

• growing from 380,000 to 1 million customers

Innovation Award 2016

2016

NSERC Energy Storage Technology (NEST) NETWORK

University of AlbertaDr. M. SecanellDr. P. MertinyDr. A. Kumar

University of CalgaryDr. H. Zareipour

University of Saskatchewan

Dr. R. Karki

University of WindsorDr. R. Carriveau

University of WaterlooDr. C. CanizaresDr. M. Salama

Dr. K. BattacharyaDr. I. Rowlands

University of Ottawa

Dr. F.H. Tezel

University of TorontoDr. R. Iravani

York UniversityDr. M. Winfield

UOITDr. V. Sood

Ryerson UniversityDr. B. Venkatesh

Dr. B. WuDr. D. Xu

Dr. A. Yazdani

PolytechniqueMontréal

Dr. M. AnjosDr. M. Gendreau

Dr. G. SavardUniversity of New

BrunswickDr. L. ChangDr. S. Saleh

Dalhousie UniversityDr. L. Swan

Memorial UniversityDr. T. Iqbal

Simon Fraser University

Dr. M. Bahrami

4Mission: “Bring together academic, industry, utility and government stakeholders to develop, test, demonstrate and ultimately commercialize innovative ES technologies (products, processes and services) through multidisciplinary and collaborative R&D.”

NSERC Energy Storage Technology (NEST) NETWORK

B. Venkatesh - PI

Energy Storage Device

Power

Electronics

Power SystemsIntegration

Economics, Policy and Social

Aspects

Theme 1: F. H. Tezel

Theme 2: L. Chang

Theme 3: C. Canizares

Theme 4: M. Anjos

Technologies: Flywheels, Batteries, CAES, Thermal ES

Universities 15

Sponsors 25

Professors 27

NSERC Funding $5M+ =

Projects 24

# Student Years Training

240

“BUSINESS AS UNUSUAL”

Part I: 7

PwC mega trends

8Earth's temperatures in 2015 were the hottest ever recorded (source: NASA).

Part I: 9

Part I: 10

Part I: 11

Three Amigos Unveil Climate and Energy Plan,

Nafta Changes

50% electricity from clean

energy by 2025

?

Part I: 12

SOLAR FORECASTED TO INCREASE FROM 4% IN 2015 TO 29% BY 2040

Part I: 13

Part I: 14

CLOUD

Part I: 16

Drivers for Next Generation Utility

increasing

emissions weather

disturbances

renewable integration

17

Grid congestion technology innovation

18

PowerStream Response:

Create a “Social Energy Network”

Transforming from a traditional Local

Distribution Company, to

an integrated, innovative, energy solutions

provider, offering the planning, design and

implementation of on and off-grid energy services and

solutions.

Alternate Energy Solutions: Deployments

19Sub Metering

Smart Home Technologies

Utility ScaleMicrogrid

Distributed Generation

Electric Vehicle IntegrationConservation

19

CommercialMicrogrid

ResidentialMicrogrid

20

Microgrid - Commercial Scale

20

17KW

2KW

35KW

23KWh

12KWh

6 KWh

5KW

14KW

9KW

10KW

21

Microgrid & Virtual Power Plant -Residential Scale

Customer Perspective….POWER.HOUSE seemed like a great opportunity to blend our views on sustainability with how we use energy.

…a car hit a nearby transformer and most of the neighbourhood was without power.…While our neighbors sat in the

dark, we were able to feed our children using the stove and give them warm baths….Once all our chores were done, we invited the neighbors over for some ice cold beerwhile they waited for their power to be restored!

Although hydro prices are increasing and we’ve had a hotter than normal summer, I’ve even managed to save approximately $150 per month on my bill by using the clean energy I produce right on my roof –that’s a savings of 60%!

Part I: 23

Located at: Penetanguishene, OntarioProvides: Reliability, Efficiency, Renewables SmoothingCommissioned in: 2016Components: battery, distribution automation functions, autonomous microgrid controller

Microgrid - Utility Scale

24

Solar Generation

Commercial Solar-Total investment of $130M+-91 Roof top Solar PV projects-FIT Contracts from Ontario Power Authority with 20 year terms

-Grid Connected-Largest roof top solar portfolio in Ontario owned by an Ontario Electric Utility

-Located throughout Ontario –Geographically diverse

25

Electric Vehicle Integration

Electric MobilityVehicle-to-Home: - First North American implementation of V2H technology

- Power the office building from Nissan LEAF- Integrated into the Cityview Microgrid

DC Quick Charger:- Cityview Office, Vaughan; free for public- Markham Civic Centre; $10/ hour- 26 tons of GHG avoided- 30 megawatt hours of electricity delivered- Fueled 140K+ kms of emission free driving

L2 Charger:- Fleet of level 2 chargers at several PowerStream office locations for employee use

26

Smart Home Technologies:Residential Energy Management

Connected Smart Home:

• Thermostat• Motion Sensors• Door Sensors• Smart Plugs• Remote

Monitoring• In-Home Display• Mobile App

Vitual Power PlantThe Ultimate Energy Cloud

27

PowerStream DERS to be

aggregated:

• Currently deployed for possible inclusion:

• Residential Solar, Storage

• Intelligent thermostats

• Intelligent switches

• Peak saver thermostats

• Planned for deployment:

• EV smart charging stations

• ICI microgrid (solar, storage)

• CHPLearn more about PowerStream’s innovative initiatives at

www.powerstream.ca/innovation

UTILITY WORKFORCE: Generational Change

TRADITIONAL UTILITIES

One way infrastructure

Focus on Electricity

Centralized Technology

Fragmented Intelligence

Energy planning – an after thought

Customer Satisfaction

Limited customer engagement

NEXT GEN UTILITIES

Bi-directional, networked

Focus on Energy

Distributed Energy Resources

Centralized Intelligence

Smart Cities, Communities

Customer Experience

Highly engaged customer

Neetika Sathe – Vice President, PowerStream Inc.

Chair, Board of Directors, NEST Network

Thank you for your time!