Evidence of meeting #71 for Natural Resources in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was power.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Mike Marsh  President and Chief Executive Officer, SaskPower
Tim Eckel  Vice-President, Asset Management, Planning and Sustainability, SaskPower
Rocco Delvecchio  Vice-President, Government Affairs, Siemens Canada Limited
Judith BossĂ©  Director General, Innovation and Energy Technology Sector, CanmetENERGY-Varennes, Department of Natural Resources
Alexandre Prieur  Smart Grid Project Leader, Innovation and Energy Technology Sector, CanmetENERGY-Varennes, Department of Natural Resources

5:10 p.m.

Smart Grid Project Leader, Innovation and Energy Technology Sector, CanmetENERGY-Varennes, Department of Natural Resources

Alexandre Prieur

You can store energy to use it at another moment. I'm going to go to an example with interties. At the peak in winter, when everybody needs to eat and make their dinner and all that, if you can delay some usage and use it during the night when everybody's sleeping and you have less demand, that's an example of peak shifting. It is part of the flexibility, and it is one of the first areas where there's a value for it in the market.

Right now, for the grid services that can be offered by different smart grid solutions, there are many grid services. One place that utilities are right now seeing the value and need to have an immediate solution is the peak. That goes to intertie production and all that because in Canada when it's cold, everybody needs to eat and use electricity at the same time. That's when you need to invest in more grid assets.

5:15 p.m.

NDP

Richard Cannings NDP South Okanagan—West Kootenay, BC

Thank you.

5:15 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal James Maloney

We're going to stop there.

Thank you both for joining us today, and thanks for answering questions on behalf of Siemens as well.

We will disconnect now, and the committee will suspend for about one minute. Then we're going to get to committee business, which I don't expect will take too long.

Thank you very much for joining us.

[Proceedings continue in camera]