Sustainable Energy Initiative (SEI) Seminar Series Launch Event

Where: Metro Hall, room 308 (55 John Street)

Details: Join the Sustainable Energy Initiative Co-Chairs Mark Winfield and José Etcheverry as they launch the 2012/13 Sustainable Energy Initiative Seminar Series. The first event of the series will be held on Friday September 21^st, 2012 at 9:00AM at Metro Hall (room 308) and is entitled Storage Options for Renewable Energy: Developing RE to Commercialization. Our keynote presenter, and honoured guest, is one of Canada’s top entrepreneurs, Ms. Annette Verschuren, Chair & CEO of NRstor Inc., and former President of The Home Depot Canada & Asia. Ms. Verschuren will discuss the development of green technology through electrical storage park development, as well as the discovery of new storage options, thermal storage solutions, such as compressed air storage, Flywheel technology & others. As Chair and CEO of NRstor Inc., Ms. Verschuren will also discuss some new storage technologies the company is working to develop commercially. Panel discussion to follow on the implications of energy storage for institutions, municipalities, industry, and the future of sustainable energy.

Panel participants include: Tyler Hamilton (Editor-in-Chief, Corporate Knights & FES adjunct professor), Peter Love (President, Love Energy Consultants Inc. & FES adjunct professor), Curtis VanWalleghem (CEO, Hydrostor Inc & Senior Manager, Energy Strategy Consulting, Deloitte) &Fernando Carou (P.Eng. - Senior Engineer, New District Energy & Community Energy Planning, City of Toronto Better Buildings Partnership). José Etcheverry, FES faculty & SEI Co-Chair to moderate panel discussion.