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The Council for Clean and Reliable Energy and the Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy (WISE) organized the 1^st annual Technology Innovation and Policy Forum 2016. This inaugural event was intended to bring together policymakers, technology innovators, leading researchers and entrepreneurs, to address the convergence of policy development with technology advances. The goal of the forum was to understand the timing and impact of emerging disruptive technologies on the current policy regime, and to understand the impacts of microgrids embedded on a large scale within existing networks.

Event title: Microgrids & Distributed Energy: Is there a revolution in the making?

On Nov. 17-18, fifty experts from academia, local institutions, government, businesses, and local NGOs from the Waterloo Region met to grapple with the long term energy challenge every region in North America faces—how to end reliance on fossil fuels across residential, business, and transportation sectors.

This forum brought together experts to articulate the pathways for decarbonizing the energy systems utilized in the Waterloo Region. The purpose of the forum was to combine the expertise and insight from these different sectors to find the pathways to a decarbonized energy future. Such pathways describe short term (next 5 years), medium term (next 15 years), and long term (next 35 years) policies and choices which will produce a more prosperous and sustainable energy system.

The Canadian Electricity Association held its 125th Anniversary Celebration in Ottawa. The winners of the 2016 Sustainable Electric^TM Awards were announced at this event. Executive Directory of WISE, Prof. Jatin Nathwani, delivered a speech at the Event.