Bring your Canadian community spirit to CanREA’s Operators Summit 2025
Canada is facing some tough headwinds at the moment, with our supply chains under stress, our economy under threat of tariffs, and the integrity of our country itself being questioned.
Just like down at the local rink, the best way to overcome challenges is to dig deep in the corners, work together as a team, display our community spirit and, when needed, get our elbows up.
For wind, solar and energy-storage site operators, CanREA’s Operators Summit 2025 is the perfect opportunity to connect with your highly specialized community—and show a little Canadian pride along the way.
Engaging our communities
The Ops Summit is designed to enable operations professionals from across the country to assemble, exchange insights, share challenges and discuss solutions.
The theme of this year’s Ops Summit is “Engaging our communities.” It’s all about building relationships. And that’s why, at our Opening Plenary, you’ll hear firsthand from First Nations leaders, municipal workers and land agreement specialists: Community support is absolutely key for the renewable energy industry.
And because the Summit is returning to Toronto this year, our closing panel will focus on the Ontario-wide community. In “How operators will advance Ontario’s energy transition,” the IESO will explain the process of getting a PPA extension in this province, Alderville First Nation will discuss a project of a certain vintage, and CanREA’s Eric Muller will give a development perspective.
Learning opportunities
Over the two days of the Ops Summit, you’ll learn about the new bat regulations in Alberta and Ontario, hear from experts at some of Canada’s longest-running wind farms, get advice on the advantages of connecting with your local emergency services when fine-tuning your emergency response plan, and much more.
You’ll also enjoy an exclusive opportunity to engage directly with the Canadian insurance industry—reach out to CanREA’s membership team for an invitation to the CanREA Insurance Committee’s pre-show meeting!
Interactive workshops
This year, we expanded our successful National Operators’ Roundtables, designed to provide valuable opportunities to learn from one another through focused discussions, such as a solar-focused workshop on “Growth Opportunity: Vegetation Management.”
Another new feature is a technical transformer-focused workshop led by Kinectrics. The session, “More Than Meets the Eye? Troubleshooting Anomalous Gassing in Transformers,” will be of use to anyone who has had transformer headaches.
Last but not least, our friends at Electricity Human Resources Canada (EHRC) will lead an important workforce-development workshop, where they will officially launch their “Winds of Change: Renewables Workforce Outlook” report, exploring trends, challenges and opportunities over the next five years. EHRC will present the key findings of this report, then discuss what renewable operators can do to address workforce challenges.
Networking
Amidst all this learning and discussion, we’ve made sure to build plenty of downtime into the schedule, so you can check out innovative technologies and service providers exhibiting at the show, or interact with other operators, service providers and experts during the breaks and at the networking reception. Because we can’t build community without taking the time to get to know one another!
This year’s CanREA’s Operators Summit will be an arena where our operations community will do what Canadians have always done in the face of challenges: marshal our strength, diversity, innovation, resilience and commitment to succeed. I hope to see you there. Registration is open now: check out all the details on our website!
Acknowledgments
CanREA thanks all sponsors for their invaluable support of the 2025 Operators Summit, headlined by Nordex, our Registration Sponsor. There are still attractive sponsorship packages available. To learn more, see CanREA’s event sponsorship prospectus.