Services
QUEST Canada supports governments, utilities & energy providers, the real-estate sector, and solution providers to grow the Smart Energy Communities marketplace with custom, trusted, and independent services.
Energy Mapping Workshops
Community Energy Planning Support
Custom Services
Resilience Workshops
Energy Mapping Workshops
An integrated approach to community energy planning is needed by governments, utilities, and the building sector to achieve a sustainable energy future - a future with lower energy costs, reduced GHG emissions, enhanced economic development, and greater resiliency.
QUEST’s proprietary Energy Mapping Workshops bring the right stakeholders together for an engaging, hands-on approach to community energy planning. Community energy planning is recognized across Canada as an effective pathway to Smart Energy Communities. It provides a platform for multiple stakeholder groups to convene, coordinate, and implement innovative community energy projects and programs, resulting in more energy efficient, resilient and vibrant communities.
Who Benefits:
QUEST’s energy mapping workshops can be customized for a variety of audiences with a wide range of expertise and can be designed to focus on developing energy literacy, strengthening energy planning alignment amongst stakeholders, or defining energy priorities for:
Governments (municipal, provincial/territorial and federal)
The building sector
Utilities
Professional associations
Local non-profits
Energy service providers
The public
What We Offer:
QUEST specializes in the development of energy mapping workshops focused on educating and inspiring participants to take an integrated, systems-thinking approach to community energy planning. QUEST delivers workshops focused on:
Envisioning the future of energy production, delivery and end use in communities
Educating and building the capacity of emerging energy practitioners to implement community energy projects and programs
Enabling collaboration among key stakeholders to inform a community energy plan and identify local projects
Biomass North Development Centre
Bioheat Opportunities in Rural and Remote Communities Workshop
When Biomass North was tasked with delivering a workshop to educate Northern Ontario stakeholders on bioheat opportunities for rural and remote communities, it thought of QUEST when it came to educating stakeholders on the importance of Community Energy Planning.
What Our Clients Say
“QUEST brought concrete and interactive tools and knowledge that proved invaluable for communities in the north in the development of their community energy plans. Their mapping exercise facilitated conversations between different stakeholder groups that may not have happened otherwise.”
Francis Gallo, Project Director
Biomass North Development Centre
Community Energy Planning Support
QUEST supports clients to enable Community Energy Plan (CEP) implementation. Our staff and Senior Associates draw on decades of experience and a vast network of community energy planning practitioners to bring your CEP to life.
The successful implementation of CEPs requires the participation of a wide range of community stakeholders. QUEST offers CEP implementation support to all stakeholders engaged in CEP development and execution, including governments (municipal, Indigenous, provincial/territorial and federal), utilities (gas, electric, thermal and water) product and service providers, and the development community (owners, operators, and builders).
What We Offer:
CEP Preparation Phase Services
-Marianne Wade, Development Services Manager, City of Campbell River
Custom Services
Technology disruptors, extreme weather events, and a changing policy landscape are just some of the fundamental changes in the energy sector that present unprecedented challenges and opportunities. Our Custom Services are designed to help you navigate the Smart Energy Communities marketplace.
Retainer Services
The successful implementation of Smart Energy Communities on any scale requires an integrated approach on both the policy side and the technical side. QUEST has pioneered this approach and developed a set of comprehensive policy and technical principles.
We have an experienced multidisciplinary team with specialized knowledge in engagement strategies, decision support processes, and tools designed to advance Smart Energy Communities. Build your custom support package based on the following offerings:
Group Facilitation
Through our experience providing working group management support for the operation of regional and national Smart Energy Community networks, we create environments where people and organizations know that they have been listened to and can learn from one another, while also remaining an objective convener.
This service benefits working groups, task forces, and communities of practice consisting of all levels of government, utilities, the building sector and other stakeholder groups engaged in energy at the community level.
Research & content development
Marketing and promotion
Summary reports and follow-up
What Our Clients Say
Workshop and EMMC Report - Toward a Positive Energy Future in Northern and Remote Communities
"Working with QUEST helped us to convene more than 60 First Nation, territorial, provincial, and federal governments; regional indigenous organizations; community representatives, utilities; and, local industry stakeholders to explore the unique energy challenges and opportunities of northern and remote communities. QUEST's summary report from the event was discussed by Federal, Provincial, and Territorial Energy Ministers who met in Iqaluit in August 2018 at the annual 2018 Energy and Mines Ministers' Conference.”
Paul Piasko, Manager, Public Affairs Branch
Natural Resources Canada, Government of Canada
Community Energy Initiative Workshop
“We are appreciative of the effort by QUEST for conducting a knowledge workshop for Alectra’s managers on Community Energy Initiatives. They successfully met the objectives of the assignment, acted professionally and delivered on time.”
Dan Pastoric, Vice President, Strategic Growth & Special Projects
Alectra
Resilience Workshops
Understanding how climate risks and vulnerabilities impact our energy systems is key to planning for safer, healthier, and more resilient communities
QUEST’s interactive resilience workshops engage municipal staff, elected officials, utilities, and key community stakeholders to increase understanding of climate risks and vulnerabilities, identify local strengths and weaknesses, and determine adaptation and resilience measures that will keep your community powered.
Who Benefits:
QUEST’s resilience workshops are energy-focused and geared toward local governments and utilities, but can be customized for other audiences to develop resilience literacy, strengthen climate adaptation planning alignment amongst stakeholders, or define adaptation priorities for:
Governments (municipal, provincial/territorial and federal)
The building and development sector
Utilities
Local non-profits
Energy service providers
The public
What We Offer:
QUEST specializes in the development of resilience mapping workshops focused on educating and inspiring participants to take an integrated, systems-thinking approach to energy-focused resilience planning. QUEST delivers workshops focused on:
Climate hazard and risk assessment for local government and utility infrastructure
Enabling collaboration among key stakeholders to inform resiliency planning and identify local solutions
Guidance and recommendations for reducing climate risk and building resilience
We provide four types of services: Energy Mapping Workshops, Community Energy Planning Support, Custom Services, and Resilience Workshops. All of our services are customizable and designed to help you evolve your business model to succeed in the Smart Energy Communities marketplace. We have a seasoned, experienced, and multi-disciplinary team with specialized knowledge in:
Engagement & Community Energy Planning
- Community consultation & engagement
- Community Energy Planning and Implementation Support
- Planning facilitation & alignment
- Decision support processes
Convening & Partnership Building
- Managing operations of regional & national working groups
- Workshop facilitation and delivery
- Creating environments where people organizations know that they have been listened to and can learn from one another while remaining an objective convener
- Collaborative partnership building
-Project management
Policy & Decision Support
- Energy policy & data
- Planning alignment
- Providing decision support processes & tools
- Corporate strategies for policy development
- Report research & creation
- Community energy metrics, indicators and measurements, and target setting and monitoring
Workshops in Photos
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Halifax 3
Halifax 4
Alnwick 1
Alnwick 2
Fredericton 1
Fredericton 2
Fredericton 3
Fundy Shores 1
Fundy-Albert 1
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Fundy-Albert 4
Hanwell Rural Community 1
Hanwell Rural Community 2
Arcadia 1
Arcadia 2
Arcadia 3
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