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Reliability in Deregulated Electricity Markets: The Ontario Example
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| Speaker
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Mrs. Carmela Phillips
Supervisor Compliance and Disputes Resolution
Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO)
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| Day and Time
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Thursday, April 20, 2006, 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
(Light supper will be served at 6:00 p.m.)
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| Location
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Old Mill Inn, Garden Room
21 Old Mill Road, Toronto
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(Adjacent to Old Mill Station on Bloor St. W. Subway Line)
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| Organizer
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IEEE Power Engineering Chapter
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| Contact
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Ron Chen
Everyone is welcome. Please send your full name, IEEE membership
number/guest, employer, and E-mail address to Ron Chen. If you can't make
it, please send a second email to cancel your registration by April 17,
2006. This will help the organizer to better allocate resources.
Attendance is free to IEEE members and guests.
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| Abstract
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In the late 90's Ontario deregulated its electric power sector and
introduced a market structure in a bid to reduce the large debt
accumulated under the previous structure, drive costs down through
competition and encourage private investment. Since then Ontario has
experienced unprecedented changes both from an operational and a
regulatory perspective. Electric power problems (supply shortage,
generation mix, transmission congestion, blackouts) have regularly made
headlines and spurred public debate across the province. While many of
these problems were home grown, some originated in the US to which
Ontario is tightly connected.
This seminar presents an overview of the Ontario market structure and
power system operation with a view to reliability and compliance
requirements. It then assesses the impact on Ontario of legislation
enacted in the US. More specifically, recent changes to the U.S. Energy
Policy Act and its move to mandated reliability standards will
undoubtedly have an effect on the role of the Ontario IESO as a
reliability standards authority. How will Ontario evolve its present
structure to integrate with the U.S. model?
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| Biography
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Mrs. Carmela Phillips has over 20 years of electricity industry experience in the area of
Power System Operations including, Inter-jurisdictional Trading, Forecasting, inter-jurisdictional market development, and transmission market development. Her broad and well-rounded experience brings together three major aspects of the operation of Ontario's Electricity System: System Operations, Market Services and Regulation/Supervision:
Earlier in her career, Mrs. Carmela Phillips spent many years in the Control Room as an exchange coordinator, dealing on a daily basis with Ontario reliability issues and thereby gaining a hands-on invaluable experience in System Operations.
Then, at market opening, she assumed the duties of Senior Customer Relations Consultant, a role in which she developed a profound understanding of the Ontario Electricity Market. In that role she helped Market Participants navigate the complexities of the newly formed market and helped address their issues.
More recently, she became involved in the supervision and regulation of the market as she now handles Market and Reliability Compliance Investigations. Mrs. Carmela Phillips currently heads the Compliance and Disputes Resolution group at the IESO.
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