EPEC History

The Electrical Power and Energy Conference (EPEC) 2013 is focused on inovative ladership for rnewable eergy to serve the rising need within academia, industry and government circles as a key strategy to attain a global green economy. The conference is sponsored by IEEE Canada and sponsored plus organized by the IEEE Canadian Atlantic Section. This event is a natural extension/spin-off of the Electrical Power Symposia (EPS) that started in Ottawa and for the first six consecutive years were very successfully organized by the IEEE Ottawa Section. The Electrical Power Symposia (EPS) started in 2001 with a focus on deregulation of electricity industry, a little understood and hot topic introduced by the Ontario Government at that time. As EPS grew into an annual event, it was expanded into other aspects of the Ontario electricity scene, in particular the increasing debt and the widening gap between demand and supply, and, in 2004, on the tough choices facing Ontario, ranging from what to do with large-scale nuclear generation to how much can we rely on demand-side management and encouraging adoption of distributed energy. A listing is provided of past EPEC locations and themes.