2018 SmartGrid Canada Conference

September 10 – 12, 2018 – Montreal, Quebec. As an industry association dedicated to advancing smart grid for the benefit of Canadians, we have taken great pride in producing a high quality conference that is focused on great speakers and a relevant program.

IRENA Innovation Week 2018

IRENA Innovation Week 2018: Solutions for a Renewable-Powered Future is an action-focused gathering of around 250 leading companies, innovators and policy makers from across IRENA’s diverse global membership, convened to explore how innovations in enabling technologies, business models, system operations and sector coupling can accelerate the renewable power transition. Ministers and senior executives will be attending the high-level segment on late Thursday afternoon and on Friday morning.

OECD/IEA Forum on Blockchain

ISGAN Chair Karin Widegren will speak at the OECD/IEA Forum on Blockchain in Paris (4-5 September 2018). The OECD Blockchain Policy Forum will explore the impact blockchain is set to have across a wide range of sectors and key policy areas. The discussions will focus on blockchain’s potential in addressing current and future policy challenges, its limitations, as well as risks that could arise and ways to mitigate them.

System Efficiency

In the era of deployment of a smarter and more sustainable energy system, an overall perspective of system efficiency becomes increasingly important.