This year Ontario marks 100 years of Community Power: electricity owned and operated by the people of the province. A century ago, in a ceremony in what was then the city of Berlin and is now Kitchener, Sir Adam Beck, the founder of Ontario Hydro, flipped the switch enabling electricity generated at Niagara Falls to be sent along public-owned transmission lines to municipal utilities in over a dozen communities, including Toronto. 

In the spirit of Sir Adam’s slogan, “Power to the People” is the theme of the Ontario Sustainable Energy Association’s 2^nd Annual Community Power Conference.

Delegates attending the conference will have a chance to learn all they need to know to become generators of renewable energy, with workshops that begin with basics and deal with every step along the way. The enormous economic, social and environmental benefits for communities of local ownership will be illustrated and speakers who have become power producers in their communities will share their experience, passing on the lessons they have learned.  Experts in the renewable energy sector will highlight the opportunities, under recent legislation, for everyone from farmers and First Nations, to church groups, service clubs, as well as individuals.

Join the Ontario Sustainable Energy Association this November for two exciting days focused on the cutting edge of the new green energy economy. Take this opportunity to meet and talk with other proponents of Community Power from across Ontario and around the world who share a vision of a greener world. Learn the latest on the regulations and the province’s enticing feed-in tariff program that makes it financially rewarding for everyone to produce clean green energy. OSEA's Community Power Conference is this year’s best opportunity for getting the most up-to-date information and for making the right connections with those who can help you become sustainable energy generator in your community.