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should be scaled with the support of industry and chambers
of commerce... The role of government would be to fund the
start-up costs for these initiatives."
OSPE was also fortunate to have the perspective of a
current engineering student. Lavdas explained that the two
internships he completed were positive experiences that
opened up different avenues for him. As President of ESSCO,
Lavdas also shared feedback he received from other students,
including a desire for increased funding for student clubs to
help students develop their skills, increased employer support
for new graduates, and the important role career services play
in helping connect students with potential employers.
Each panelist brought a unique perspective to the table,
and the panel underscored how, contrary to the General
Assembly's title, each stakeholder group - post-secondary
institutions, professors, industry, employers, and government
- has an important role to play. As no one stakeholder has
a monopoly over the labour market, a multi-stakeholder
approach is needed to help engineering graduates prepare for
a changing labour market and land in their field of study.
General assembly session 2
surging forward: how Professional engineers
are rebooting energy Policy in Ontario
Chair of OSPE's Energy Task Force (ETF) and current Board
Member Emily Thorn Corthay, P.Eng., and past President
and Chair Paul Acchione, P.Eng., led a discussion to expand
and refresh members' understanding of OSPE's important
influence regarding energy policy in Ontario, and how OSPE
has become a recognized thought-leader in this space.
The pair started off by outlining that OSPE's energy advocacy
program is about stimulating the creation of engineering jobs.
Traditional engineering job opportunities are scarce, with
only one-third of graduates becoming professional engineers.
It is OSPE's position that sound public energy policy is a prerequisite for a strong economy, and that strong economies
create employment opportunities for engineers.
Many engineers work in the energy sector and want a voice
in helping to establish sound public energy policy, and OSPE's
ETF is an engineering forum for their input. Engineering input
is required to achieve optimal public energy policy decisions
that balance economic and environmental priorities. OSPE's
ETF initially focused on electrical energy systems where policy
decisions were creating economic and technical challenges. In
the future, the ETF needs to address other energy systems to
meet overall climate change goals.
Together, Thorn Corthay and Acchione detailed the
characteristics of Ontario's power system supply and demand,
OSPE's advocacy wins and current initiatives, the good, bad
and ugly of Ontario's 2017 Fair Hydro Plan, and collected
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feedback on the future direction of advocacy regarding energy.
Their message was clear: collaboration between engineers and
policy makers produces the best technical, environmental,
and economic results. OSPE is the voice of Ontario's engineers
and when it comes to the planning, designing, pricing, and
operating our power system, engineers need to be heard by
our provincial government.
OsPe's eTf activities
* Task Force has been functioning for more than 10 years
* Four formal reports - nuclear (2011), wind (2012), cap-andtrade (2015), & decarburization (2016)
* Two technical information guides - types of energy systems
(2011) and the Fukushima Dai-Ichi accident (2011)
* 17 presentations (2011 - 2017) covering various aspects
of power system challenges and opportunities, including
the supply mix, electricity prices and energy policy
recommendations
* 77 seminars to 860 engineers, 1600 engineering students,
and 300 public participants
* 20 major submissions to government and energy agencies
(2011 - 2017) covering energy planning, budgets, legislation,
value for money audits, and restructuring of Atomic Energy
(AECL)
OsPe's energy advocacy Outcomes
* Technical, market design and procurement recommendations
generally accepted
o 13 of 19 recommendations in the wind report
were fully or partially implemented over a fouryear period
o Most recommendations in the nuclear report were
implemented in new-build specifications (but
new-build cancelled due to low load growth)
o Two of five recommendations in AECL
restructuring submission implemented
o Non-technical policy and governance
recommendations were generally not accepted by
government
* ETF predictions have been correct
o Rapid rise in electricity rates
o Deep negative market prices in 2011
o Technical and financial challenges of integrating
intermittent generation
o Increased exports at low prices
o Increased curtailment/waste of clean electricity
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