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Grid Modernization Leadership IWD

Grid Modernization Leadership: Perspectives from Women Energy Leaders

Women leaders at Peak Power share what grid modernization leadership looks like in a technical, capital-intensive sector, plus the skills and mindsets shaping the future grid.

IWD Peak Power Behind-the-meter energy storage female leaders

Behind-the-Meter: Peak Power’s Female Energy Storage Leaders

IWD perspectives on grid modernization and behind-the-meter energy storage, including how batteries reduce peak costs & support a more flexible electricity system

Release: Peak Power Awards Bursary to Promising Canadian Cleantech Student

Investing in the emerging energy innovators, Peak Power grants $1,500 to student who shows commitment to clean energy sector.

Peak Power Global Adjustment Cost Reduction Forecasting

Achieving Precision in GA Forecasting: Maximizing Global Adjustment Cost Reduction in 2025

Learn how leading peak demand forecasting from Peak Power is helping C&I facilities reduce GA costs even in today’s challenging market. 

Ontario Energy for Generations Plan Pickering Nuclear

What Ontario’s Energy for Generations Plan Means for Class A Global Adjustment Costs

What does the province of Ontario’s Energy for Generations plan mean for Class A Global Adjustment costs in the future? Insights from Peak Power markets team.

Ontario IESO Market Renewal Program

Navigating Ontario’s Market Renewal Program: A Guide for Class A Customers

Ontario’s electricity market is gearing up for a big shift on May 1, 2025, with the implementation of the Market Renewal Program (MRP). Learn more here.

Grid Resiliency Data Centre

Dependable Flexibility: The Fastest Path to a Resilient Grid

The next phase of the clean energy transition won’t be defined by who can build the biggest assets. It will be defined by who can build the fastest, most
NRCAN EIP 2025 Peak Power Battery Storage

Government of Canada Invests to Modernize Ontario’s Electricity Grid — Ensuring More Reliable Power for Ontarians

Honourable Tim Hodgson, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, announced over $13 million in federal funding to support five clean energy projects in Ontario that will help modernize existing

AI rewrites the corporate energy playbook

Open Circuit Podcast, co-hosted by Stephen Lacey, Jigar Shah and Peak Power board member Katherine Hamilton. Together with their episode guest, Caroline Golin, they explore how emerging technologies are
Peak Power Unit Tesla

4 Factors that Make Behind-the-Meter Battery Storage Financeable

Financing behind-the-meter (demand-side) battery projects has always been challenging for commercial and industrial customers. Here are 4 factors that make it possible.

What every industrial facility manager needs to know about peak shaving and load shifting

Two strategies industrial facilities can use to reduce high electricity demand charges.

Inside job: How AI can help reduce emissions in buildings

Canadian tools that optimize electricity consumption are helping building operators drive down energy costs and shrink their carbon footprint.

Grid Modernization Leadership: Perspectives from Women Energy Leaders

Grid modernization leadership is being defined in real time as the electricity system evolves: more renewables, more battery energy storage development, more digitalization, higher peaks, and a faster pace of change across markets, policy, and technology. In honour of International Women’s Day, we hear from the women leaders at…

Behind-the-Meter: Peak Power’s Female Energy Storage Leaders

International Women’s Day is a moment to recognize the women shaping the systems we all rely on. At Peak Power, that work is centred on behind-the-meter energy storage: battery systems deployed at commercial and industrial facilities to cut peak demand costs and support a more flexible grid as it…

Release: Peak Power Awards Bursary to Promising Canadian Cleantech Student

Investing in the emerging energy innovators, Peak Power grants $1,500 to student who shows commitment to clean energy sector TORONTO, ON – Peak Power Inc. has awarded its 2025 Future Cleantech Leader Bursary to student Azka Siddiqui, underscoring the company’s belief that human ingenuity remains central to innovation in…

Achieving Precision in GA Forecasting: Maximizing Global Adjustment Cost Reduction in 2025

The Changing Ontario Energy Market  Ontario’s electricity system is in the middle of a significant transformation. Rising electrification, volatile demand patterns, and growing participation in demand response programs are making it increasingly difficult to predict when the grid will experience its highest system peaks.  For decades, the Independent Electricity…

What Ontario’s Energy for Generations Plan Means for Class A Global Adjustment Costs

Authored by: Jessica M. and James C. from Peak Power’s Markets Team   Ontario is entering a new era in energy planning. In June 2025, the province released its Energy for Generations plan, a long-term supply framework to meet growing electricity needs through investments in nuclear refurbishments, new gas…

Navigating Ontario’s Market Renewal Program: A Guide for Class A Customers

Authored by: Jessica M. and James C. from Peak Power’s Markets Team   Ontario’s electricity market is gearing up for a big shift on May 1, 2025, with the implementation of the Market Renewal Program (MRP) changes to the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO)’s energy market. Through the MRP,…
Grid Modernization Leadership IWD

Grid Modernization Leadership: Perspectives from Women Energy Leaders

Women leaders at Peak Power share what grid modernization leadership looks like in a technical, capital-intensive sector, plus the skills and mindsets shaping the future grid.

IWD Peak Power Behind-the-meter energy storage female leaders

Behind-the-Meter: Peak Power’s Female Energy Storage Leaders

IWD perspectives on grid modernization and behind-the-meter energy storage, including how batteries reduce peak costs & support a more flexible electricity system

Release: Peak Power Awards Bursary to Promising Canadian Cleantech Student

Investing in the emerging energy innovators, Peak Power grants $1,500 to student who shows commitment to clean energy sector.

Peak Power Global Adjustment Cost Reduction Forecasting

Achieving Precision in GA Forecasting: Maximizing Global Adjustment Cost Reduction in 2025

Learn how leading peak demand forecasting from Peak Power is helping C&I facilities reduce GA costs even in today’s challenging market. 

Ontario Energy for Generations Plan Pickering Nuclear

What Ontario’s Energy for Generations Plan Means for Class A Global Adjustment Costs

What does the province of Ontario’s Energy for Generations plan mean for Class A Global Adjustment costs in the future? Insights from Peak Power markets team.

Ontario IESO Market Renewal Program

Navigating Ontario’s Market Renewal Program: A Guide for Class A Customers

Ontario’s electricity market is gearing up for a big shift on May 1, 2025, with the implementation of the Market Renewal Program (MRP). Learn more here.

Grid Resiliency Data Centre

Dependable Flexibility: The Fastest Path to a Resilient Grid

The next phase of the clean energy transition won’t be defined by who can build the biggest assets. It will be defined by who can build the fastest, most
NRCAN EIP 2025 Peak Power Battery Storage

Government of Canada Invests to Modernize Ontario’s Electricity Grid — Ensuring More Reliable Power for Ontarians

Honourable Tim Hodgson, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, announced over $13 million in federal funding to support five clean energy projects in Ontario that will help modernize existing

AI rewrites the corporate energy playbook

Open Circuit Podcast, co-hosted by Stephen Lacey, Jigar Shah and Peak Power board member Katherine Hamilton. Together with their episode guest, Caroline Golin, they explore how emerging technologies are
Peak Power Unit Tesla

4 Factors that Make Behind-the-Meter Battery Storage Financeable

Financing behind-the-meter (demand-side) battery projects has always been challenging for commercial and industrial customers. Here are 4 factors that make it possible.

Why solar and wind power are key to preventing Toronto’s next storm-related blackout

Decentralization and resilience are the key words to building a power grid that can withstand sudden weather disasters like the Toronto rainstorm.
Medium

Matthew Sachs Of Peak Power On How They Are Breaking the Cycle of Non-Renewable Consumption

Keep it simple. The energy industry is extremely complicated, and we can get so “into our own story” that we miss the forest for the trees.

Grid Modernization Leadership: Perspectives from Women Energy Leaders

Grid modernization leadership is being defined in real time as the electricity system evolves: more renewables, more battery energy storage development, more digitalization, higher peaks, and a faster pace of change across markets, policy, and technology. In honour of International Women’s Day, we hear from the women leaders at…

Behind-the-Meter: Peak Power’s Female Energy Storage Leaders

International Women’s Day is a moment to recognize the women shaping the systems we all rely on. At Peak Power, that work is centred on behind-the-meter energy storage: battery systems deployed at commercial and industrial facilities to cut peak demand costs and support a more flexible grid as it…

Release: Peak Power Awards Bursary to Promising Canadian Cleantech Student

Investing in the emerging energy innovators, Peak Power grants $1,500 to student who shows commitment to clean energy sector TORONTO, ON – Peak Power Inc. has awarded its 2025 Future Cleantech Leader Bursary to student Azka Siddiqui, underscoring the company’s belief that human ingenuity remains central to innovation in…

Achieving Precision in GA Forecasting: Maximizing Global Adjustment Cost Reduction in 2025

The Changing Ontario Energy Market  Ontario’s electricity system is in the middle of a significant transformation. Rising electrification, volatile demand patterns, and growing participation in demand response programs are making it increasingly difficult to predict when the grid will experience its highest system peaks.  For decades, the Independent Electricity…

What Ontario’s Energy for Generations Plan Means for Class A Global Adjustment Costs

Authored by: Jessica M. and James C. from Peak Power’s Markets Team   Ontario is entering a new era in energy planning. In June 2025, the province released its Energy for Generations plan, a long-term supply framework to meet growing electricity needs through investments in nuclear refurbishments, new gas…

Navigating Ontario’s Market Renewal Program: A Guide for Class A Customers

Authored by: Jessica M. and James C. from Peak Power’s Markets Team   Ontario’s electricity market is gearing up for a big shift on May 1, 2025, with the implementation of the Market Renewal Program (MRP) changes to the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO)’s energy market. Through the MRP,…
Grid Modernization Leadership IWD

Grid Modernization Leadership: Perspectives from Women Energy Leaders

Women leaders at Peak Power share what grid modernization leadership looks like in a technical, capital-intensive sector, plus the skills and mindsets shaping the future grid.

IWD Peak Power Behind-the-meter energy storage female leaders

Behind-the-Meter: Peak Power’s Female Energy Storage Leaders

IWD perspectives on grid modernization and behind-the-meter energy storage, including how batteries reduce peak costs & support a more flexible electricity system

Release: Peak Power Awards Bursary to Promising Canadian Cleantech Student

Investing in the emerging energy innovators, Peak Power grants $1,500 to student who shows commitment to clean energy sector.

Peak Power Global Adjustment Cost Reduction Forecasting

Achieving Precision in GA Forecasting: Maximizing Global Adjustment Cost Reduction in 2025

Learn how leading peak demand forecasting from Peak Power is helping C&I facilities reduce GA costs even in today’s challenging market. 

Ontario Energy for Generations Plan Pickering Nuclear

What Ontario’s Energy for Generations Plan Means for Class A Global Adjustment Costs

What does the province of Ontario’s Energy for Generations plan mean for Class A Global Adjustment costs in the future? Insights from Peak Power markets team.

Ontario IESO Market Renewal Program

Navigating Ontario’s Market Renewal Program: A Guide for Class A Customers

Ontario’s electricity market is gearing up for a big shift on May 1, 2025, with the implementation of the Market Renewal Program (MRP). Learn more here.

Grid Modernization Leadership: Perspectives from Women Energy Leaders

Grid modernization leadership is being defined in real time as the electricity system evolves: more renewables, more battery energy storage development, more digitalization, higher peaks, and a faster pace of change across markets, policy, and technology. In honour of International Women’s Day, we hear from the women leaders at…

Behind-the-Meter: Peak Power’s Female Energy Storage Leaders

International Women’s Day is a moment to recognize the women shaping the systems we all rely on. At Peak Power, that work is centred on behind-the-meter energy storage: battery systems deployed at commercial and industrial facilities to cut peak demand costs and support a more flexible grid as it…

Release: Peak Power Awards Bursary to Promising Canadian Cleantech Student

Investing in the emerging energy innovators, Peak Power grants $1,500 to student who shows commitment to clean energy sector TORONTO, ON – Peak Power Inc. has awarded its 2025 Future Cleantech Leader Bursary to student Azka Siddiqui, underscoring the company’s belief that human ingenuity remains central to innovation in…

Achieving Precision in GA Forecasting: Maximizing Global Adjustment Cost Reduction in 2025

The Changing Ontario Energy Market  Ontario’s electricity system is in the middle of a significant transformation. Rising electrification, volatile demand patterns, and growing participation in demand response programs are making it increasingly difficult to predict when the grid will experience its highest system peaks.  For decades, the Independent Electricity…

What Ontario’s Energy for Generations Plan Means for Class A Global Adjustment Costs

Authored by: Jessica M. and James C. from Peak Power’s Markets Team   Ontario is entering a new era in energy planning. In June 2025, the province released its Energy for Generations plan, a long-term supply framework to meet growing electricity needs through investments in nuclear refurbishments, new gas…

Navigating Ontario’s Market Renewal Program: A Guide for Class A Customers

Authored by: Jessica M. and James C. from Peak Power’s Markets Team   Ontario’s electricity market is gearing up for a big shift on May 1, 2025, with the implementation of the Market Renewal Program (MRP) changes to the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO)’s energy market. Through the MRP,…
Grid Modernization Leadership IWD

Grid Modernization Leadership: Perspectives from Women Energy Leaders

Women leaders at Peak Power share what grid modernization leadership looks like in a technical, capital-intensive sector, plus the skills and mindsets shaping the future grid.

IWD Peak Power Behind-the-meter energy storage female leaders

Behind-the-Meter: Peak Power’s Female Energy Storage Leaders

IWD perspectives on grid modernization and behind-the-meter energy storage, including how batteries reduce peak costs & support a more flexible electricity system

Release: Peak Power Awards Bursary to Promising Canadian Cleantech Student

Investing in the emerging energy innovators, Peak Power grants $1,500 to student who shows commitment to clean energy sector.

Peak Power Global Adjustment Cost Reduction Forecasting

Achieving Precision in GA Forecasting: Maximizing Global Adjustment Cost Reduction in 2025

Learn how leading peak demand forecasting from Peak Power is helping C&I facilities reduce GA costs even in today’s challenging market. 

Ontario Energy for Generations Plan Pickering Nuclear

What Ontario’s Energy for Generations Plan Means for Class A Global Adjustment Costs

What does the province of Ontario’s Energy for Generations plan mean for Class A Global Adjustment costs in the future? Insights from Peak Power markets team.

Ontario IESO Market Renewal Program

Navigating Ontario’s Market Renewal Program: A Guide for Class A Customers

Ontario’s electricity market is gearing up for a big shift on May 1, 2025, with the implementation of the Market Renewal Program (MRP). Learn more here.

Grid Modernization Leadership IWD

Grid Modernization Leadership: Perspectives from Women Energy Leaders

Women leaders at Peak Power share what grid modernization leadership looks like in a technical, capital-intensive sector, plus the skills and mindsets shaping the future grid.

IWD Peak Power Behind-the-meter energy storage female leaders

Behind-the-Meter: Peak Power’s Female Energy Storage Leaders

IWD perspectives on grid modernization and behind-the-meter energy storage, including how batteries reduce peak costs & support a more flexible electricity system

Release: Peak Power Awards Bursary to Promising Canadian Cleantech Student

Investing in the emerging energy innovators, Peak Power grants $1,500 to student who shows commitment to clean energy sector.

Peak Power Global Adjustment Cost Reduction Forecasting

Achieving Precision in GA Forecasting: Maximizing Global Adjustment Cost Reduction in 2025

Learn how leading peak demand forecasting from Peak Power is helping C&I facilities reduce GA costs even in today’s challenging market. 

Ontario Energy for Generations Plan Pickering Nuclear

What Ontario’s Energy for Generations Plan Means for Class A Global Adjustment Costs

What does the province of Ontario’s Energy for Generations plan mean for Class A Global Adjustment costs in the future? Insights from Peak Power markets team.

Ontario IESO Market Renewal Program

Navigating Ontario’s Market Renewal Program: A Guide for Class A Customers

Ontario’s electricity market is gearing up for a big shift on May 1, 2025, with the implementation of the Market Renewal Program (MRP). Learn more here.

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With the right strategies large commercial and industrial facilities can maximize their electricity curtailment savings and minimize impact to operations. Whether you’re targeting immediate energy cost savings or long-term sustainability goals, this guide will help you get there.

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