Join the Ottawa Energy Collective Impact team for an important event connecting energy and social finance from 8:30-3:30 on September 18, 2018, at Carleton University - Room 2220RB, Richcraft Hall.
Admission: 75$/Participant Using Code EARLYBIRD25 until September 5! $100/participant after September 5th.
Key speakers and outline (full agenda to come):
Welcome
Tessa Hebb, Carleton University
Kristina Inrig and Kara Stonehouse, Sustainable Energy Collective Impact team
Keynote Address: Tim Stoate, Vice President, The Atmospheric Fund (TAF)
The keynote will take a broad overview of the challenges and opportunities in the Ottawa/Gatineau region for developing social finance strategies, tools and instruments that will provide investment in sustainable energy use in buildings in our region. What will it take to achieve our goals? Who needs to be at the table? What tools are needed and why? How can we build this capacity in our city? What can we learn from other cities who have been successful in creating viable social finance options for investment in GHG reduction in their built environment?
Panel 1 - What are the social finance models for renewable energy?
Moderator:
Tim Stoate, TAF
Speakers:
Chris Henderson, President, Lumos Energy
Janice Ashworth, Managing Director, OREC
Other speakers to be confirmed
Each member of this panel represents a social finance model for investment in renewable energy. They, together with our moderator, will provide some detail on their model and how it works. The panel will explore the challenges that each model had to overcome within its own market. Panel members will discuss the ways in which their organizations addressed these challenges, how they measure success, who invests and why, and what lessons learned they would pass on to others in the field. They will also discuss whether these models are applicable to Ottawa, and why or why not?
Panel 3 - What do investors want and need in order to invest?
Moderator:
Tessa Hebb, Research Fellow, Carleton Centre for Community Innovation
Speakers:
Brian Toller, Investment Committee, Ottawa Community Foundation
Lars Boggild, Account Manager, Van City Community Investment Bank
John Hastings, Investment Advisor, Royal Bank of Canada
This panel will focus on what impact investors are looking for in order to make investments in
renewable energy social finance instruments. They will discuss any investments they have
made in this sector, how they were made and the rational behind the investment opportunity.
They will compare these investments to other impact investments in their portfolio. Were
there a variety of forms of capital in the deal ranging from grants, guarantees, low interest
loans, and market rate investments. The panel will explore the kind of new social finance opportunities in GHG reduction in Ottawa that would attract them to invest. They will also detail the type of opportunities that are not of interest to private investors.
COST $75/participant with discount code EARLYBIRD25- please click the link below to register.
(Cost increases to $100 after September 5th)