APPRO (the Association of Power Producers of Ontario)

We've been pleased to be a member of APPRO since 2004.

WHAT IS APPRO?

APPrO (the Association of Power Producers of Ontario) is a non-profit organization representing more than 100 companies involved in the generation of electricity in Ontario, including generators and suppliers of services, equipment and consulting services.  APPrO members produce power from co-generation, hydro-electric, gas, coal, nuclear, wind energy, waste wood and other sources.

APPrO's members currently produce over 95% of the electricity made in Ontario.

For the first 17 years of its operation, the organization was known as IPPSO, the Independent Power Producers' Society of Ontario.   In 2002, when Ontario's electricity market was officially opened to competition, the organization began a process in which it broadened its scope to include more generators, and changed its name to APPrO, the Association of Power Producers of Ontario.

APPRO's website provides a fuller description

 

WHY ARE WE A MEMBER?

Our company was established in 2000 to make the electricity market understandable, to a wide range of people (not just the direct wholesale market incumbents).  We see that, in some small way, by providing this service we can help the electricity market to deliver the benefits promised to all of us.

Since 2000, our client base has grown steadily for a range of software products we've put together for Australia's National Electricity Market (NEM).

In mid-2002 we released a new software package (ez2view^TMOntario) to provide a similar service to generators (and others) in and around Ontario.  The service has been progressively enhanced since that time, and we've been pleased to serve a diverse range of clients over the period (including some APPRO members).

We're a member of APPrO for a variety of reasons. For instance, APPrO offers us one avenue by which we ensure we're aware of the issues of concern to generators in Ontario (who are APPrO members), and may be our clients.