Jake Brooks

1 month ago | sustainablebiz.ca | Jake Brooks |Tyler Choi |David Arkell

GUEST SUBMISSION: Ontario’s Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) recently announced plans to invite an entirely new category of energy entrepreneurs into the electricity market – small scale generators. This move can be expected to stimulate competition while significantly widening the options available to energy consumers. Responses to the IESO’s first webinar on the new Local Generation Program were enthusiastic.

Jan 24, 2025 | sustainablebiz.ca | Jake Brooks |Tyler Choi

GUEST SUBMISSION: Energy competition does not need to be limited to a small number of companies operating at the wholesale level. The potential benefits of wider and more open competition were recently evidenced when Ontario’s electric grid operator and a local utility decided to set up and test Canada’s first local electricity market through the IESO York Region Non-Wires Alternatives Demonstration Project.

Nov 8, 2024 | sustainablebiz.ca | John Dujay |Tyler Choi |Jake Brooks

When Jennifer Côté was looking for another round of venture capital funding for her startup, she turned south. After raising an initial round of US$1 million in 2021, the cleantech company she co-founded in 2020, Opalia, had a more difficult time raising a second round of money. “The following fundraising went totally differently.

Oct 1, 2024 | ebmag.com | Jake Brooks

October 1, 2024 – Significant change could be coming to an electrical grid near you. Opportunities may soon open up for a wide variety of clean energy suppliers to add electricity to the grid, and for increasing numbers of relatively small energy producers—including consumers—to enter the energy market using local resources.

Sep 16, 2024 | environmentjournal.ca | Jake Brooks

By Jake BrooksSignificant change could be coming to an electrical grid near you. Opportunities may soon open up for a wide variety of clean energy suppliers to add electricity to the grid, and for increasing numbers of relatively small energy producers — including consumers — to enter the energy market using local resources.