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Climate Tech Day: Funding Community-Owned Energy

The technology is ready and the money is not, because almost none of it is built for the community to end up owning the thing.

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3 min walk. 5 locations within 5 min.

When
Wednesday, September 23, 2026
14:40 to 16:00, Pacific Time (PCT)
Where
Swans Pub (its map, in a new tab)
1601 Store St, Victoria, BC V8W 1N6
Cost and entry
Free, meal at about $20 to $30
Talk · Climate & ocean · In person
Area
Victoria (YYJ)

Anu’s take

Ownership is the whole argument here. A community can host the generation and still watch the value leave, and which way that goes is usually settled in the financing structure long before anything gets built. One speaker named so far and she is on the capital side rather than the developer side, which is the right end to start from.

Who’s involved

Slate Strategies (their website, in a new tab)
Chris Fernando on LinkedIn, in a new tab, Aaron Nelson on LinkedIn, in a new tab
Aura Silva

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From Slate Strategies’s page on luma.com (the organizer’s page, in a new tab) · Listed Sep 19 · Updated Nov 2, 06:17