Champion of Clean

Helen Bremner, Executive Vice President, Brand & Residential Markets at ENMAX Corporation

WADE Canada member and stakeholder in the 2011 Global Clean Energy Congress, ENMAX Corporation (ENMAX), through its subsidiaries, provides electricity, natural gas, fibre-optic, and value-added services. ENMAX, through its subsidiaries and predecessors, has provided Albertans with safe, reliable electricity for more than 100 years. We're a wholly owned subsidiary of The City of Calgary, headquartered in Calgary, Canada. ENMAX operates and competes in Alberta's restructured electricity industry. In 2010, the company had shareholder's equity of $2.404 billion and net earnings of $177.8 million.

Helen, tell us about Residential Markets at ENMAX Corporation:

The residential markets group includes brand, community investment & sponsorship and energy products to the residential deregulated market.  These products & services cover energy contracts, distributed generation, HVAC home services, ad emerging products to support electric vehicles, energy management and conservation and in home micro generation.

What’s new and exciting in your world at ENMAX Corporation?

ENMAX is strongly focused on providing customers choice in their retail products & services.  We are in a strong growth phase for our deregulated energy business; we are implementing decentralized energy at both the larger and smaller scale with our Shepard Energy Center, District Energy and GenerateChoice programs.  We also have a number of pilot projects underway including electric vehicles for fleet and consumers, micro CHP and energy management.

How did your career end up focusing on the utility consultation?

I started as a management consultant right out of college and later moved to one of my clients.  I have spent the majority of my career working in deregulation, establishing new utility companies resulting from deregulation and developing strategies for success in this environment.  This has been an exciting opportunity.

Why are you passionate about decentralized energy?

I believe decentralized energy will be a big part of the utility model moving forward.

What excites you most about the next 10 years for decentralized energy?

The opportunity for customers in choice of supply, products and services and the ability to engage more proactively in their energy solutions. Also, more renewable & cleaner energy supply options.

How does ENMAX Corporation’s membership with WADE Canada translate to value for ENMAX?

WADE Canada provides a forum for discussing issues, networking, education and showcasing programs.

The inaugural Global Clean Energy Congress held in Calgary, is an excellent example of the value from our relationship with WADE Canada. WADE organized a successful event that brought together a wide range of participants to discuss and showcase many aspects of renewable energy.  It was an exciting opportunity and provided many insights and new perspectives. 

Executive Vice President, Brand & Residential Markets

Helen joined ENMAX as Executive Vice President in November 2009. Her current responsibilities include competitive residential retail markets and developing and commercializing ENMAX’s distributed generation plans. She is also responsible for the development of energy management, electrical vehicle and conservation initiatives, as well as other related smart grid technologies. In addition, she assumed responsibility for ENMAX’s brand, market research and sponsorship initiatives in February 2011.

Ms. Bremner has utility and consulting experience in North America, Australia and New Zealand. Prior to joining ENMAX, Ms. Bremner was Chief Executive Officer at ARC Innovations Ltd. in New Zealand. She also held executive positions at Meridian Energy Ltd. and TransAlta New Zealand and consulted for Andersen Consulting and Booz Allen and Hamilton. Ms. Bremner has an MBA from the University of Chicago, an MA from St. Andrews University, Scotland and attended the Stanford Executive Program.

Contact Helen at: hbremner@enmax.com