CanREA delivers a compelling value proposition to companies at a range of different membership levels. Choose the membership level that lines up with the investment you want to make, the benefits and services you need and the level of engagement you want your organization to have within CanREA and the industry.
CanREA’s extensive member benefits and services fall into five categories:
Policy & Advocacy
Participate in community-of-interest and regionally-based policy and regulatory networks, steering committees and working groups. In these forums, you can help to shape CanREA’s positions and recommendations to governments, agencies and other key stakeholders.
Business Development & Networking
Raise your company’s profile and strengthen your brand through exclusive member-profiling opportunities on CanREA’s website, in the member directory and at well-attended events. Align your brand with a unique national voice and a broad industry network.
Market Intelligence & Industry Trends
Get access to critical industry news, data and market updates to ensure your company retains its edge in these rapidly changing times. Members receive exclusive updates and insights through a variety of channels, including a member-only website and exclusive member-only events.
Influence & Governance
Engage in your association and make your voice heard. Members elect and can run for CanREA’s Board of Directors and, depending on membership level, can participate in CanREA’s strategic planning and have regular touchpoints with the board and executives.
Cost Savings & Affinity Programs
CanREA’s exclusive affinity programs will help your company cut costs and save money on various expenses, while also enabling you to provide additional employee benefits. All members can attend and exhibit at CanREA events at discounted rates. Visit the members-only area of the website to access your cost-saving programs.
Exclusive costs savings and affinity programs for Canadian Renewable Energy Association members include:
About GroupHEALTH
For more than 40 years, GroupHEALTH Benefits Solutions™ has been transforming the way Canadians experience benefits by developing and delivering the most cost-effective, configurable, and usable benefit solutions to businesses across Canada. Leaders in employee benefits plans and group insurance, the GroupHEALTH Family of Companies has more than 1,000 employees in offices in Vancouver, Surrey, Prince George, Calgary, Edmonton, Etobicoke, Woodbridge, and Barrie.
GroupHEALTH supplies market-leading employee benefit services to more than 4,000 client organizations across Canada in both the public and private sectors, supporting more than 450,000 Canadians and their families.
GroupHEALTH is proud to offer CanREA member companies a group benefit plan with a unique combination of value & features, including financial sustainability, hassle-free administration and better tools and features to improve your plan experience.
Click here to get your personalized quote or to learn more about the program.
GPSI Solar provides CanREA members with a 10% discount on installer pricing for microinverters from Canada’s own Sparq Systems. Sparq’s latest model, Q2000, connects 4 PV panels, up to 550W each with 2000W output and 97.5% maximum efficiency. Sparq’s patented technology has eliminated the use of short life electrolytic capacitors, providing high reliability, and 25 year design life, and the smallest footprint and weight of its class. Sparq products are stocked and distributed in North America by GPSI Solar.
Purchase a Sparq System at a discounted rate! Contact us to learn more!
CanREA Member Benefits Marketplace powered by HUB International
As a member of CanREA, you have access to a comprehensive collection of voluntary benefits – here for you to take advantage of when you choose to.
Within your Member Benefits Marketplace you will find exclusive insurance products and services as well as “Members Only” discounts on lifestyle and travel goods and services to help you live a fuller, healthier life without jeopardizing your financial balance.
The Discount Marketplace hosts thousands of Canadian vendors to offer even more exclusive deals and cash back opportunities with household brands you shop for daily. Simply create your personal account – to keep track of your “digital wallet” – and shop online as you normally would to let the savings pour in!
Similan Consulting provides CanREA members with a significant discount on quarterly forecast subscriptions. Similan Consulting Reports provide long-term Alberta power price forecast to help support budgeting, hedging decisions, and project development. Similan Consulting’s forecast assumptions are based on 40+ years of real-world experience in the Alberta market. Similan’s Alberta power price forecast includes a detailed report and data tables going out 20 years.
Via Rail Canada gives members a five per cent discount each time they book. This applies for all destinations and fare categories, except Escape and Prestige. This can be used for professional and personal travel, and for up to three friends, family or colleagues who are travelling with you.
GoodLife Fitness offers members $0 enrollment and 20 per cent off its memberships. This discount is accessible at more than 200 GoodLife locations across Canada, and also applies to short-term access to fitness locations in the United States.
To discuss membership options, please contact us at members@renewablesassociation.ca or 613-552-8589.