In this presentation, Anna Cybulsky, Head of Energy System Integration, and Elizaveta Kuznetsova Head of the Energy Value Chains at ESMIA will highlight notable modelling projects conducted recently. Starting from a global perspective, insights from modelling decarbonization of international marine shipping on Canadian trade, shipping costs, and supply of low carbon fuels will be explored. Zooming in at national level, ESMIA will cover key outcomes from the modelling performed to revise Canada’s Hydrogen Strategy (2024), focusing on potential markets for hydrogen and opportunities for different production technologies including electrolysers. Finally, ESMIA will present city-level findings from the open-source modelling suite LENZ developed for the City of Toronto – from changes in energy use impacting load curves to opportunities for distributed generation. The presentation will provide an overview of ESMIA’s core modelling tools and opportunities for in-depth analyses at different scales.
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Anna is Head of Energy System Integration with ESMIA. She leads projects with major government clients at federal and state levels in the areas of economy-wide decarbonization, hydrogen sector development, and energy policy analysis. Her ability to synthesize key insights from modeled energy technology-policy scenarios has allowed her to successfully deliver executive presentations and public-facing reports for key clients in the North American market. With ESMIA, Anna seeks new business opportunities to use energy system models in innovative ways to support the private sector in market assessment, techno-economic trade-offs, policy impact assessment, and investment risk in the energy sector.
Prior to working at ESMIA, Anna was an aircraft systems model engineer at Airbus in France, where she developed and integrated models for flight simulators as well as for simulation platforms to assess new aircraft architectures. Her international experience also spans to Germany and India in the automotive sector, designing new methods for vehicle testing in simulation environments. Anna holds a Master of Science in Engineering and Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where her research focused on airport supply chains for avaiation decarbonization via hydrogen.
Elizaveta, as the Head of the Energy Value Chains at ESMIA, is the main instigator of RateVision, a consumer-centric model that forecasts changes in energy rates and bills. She oversees NAGEM Canada, a multi-regional dynamic macroeconomic model crucial for assessing the impact of energy and climate policies on economic growth, public welfare and employment. She leads projects that explore the economic transformations necessitated by policies aimed at achieving net-zero targets, with a focus on energy supply chains, stranded asset costs, energy rates, consumer bills, jobs and just transitions. Her expertise has been instrumental in projects commissioned by federal and provincial governments using modelling results to inform decision-makers. Elizaveta demonstrates strong leadership in the energy sector; she is a regular speaker at CAMPUT events, which are respected for providing best practice resources in energy and utility regulation.
Before joining ESMIA, Elizaveta worked in France, Singapore and Canada on the development of decision-making methodologies to support sustainable design and operations of smart grids, eco-industrial parks, waste-to-energy infrastructure, microgrids and electricity prosumers. Elizaveta earned her Ph.D. in economics with first class honor from the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (France) focusing on microgrid agent-based modelling and optimization under uncertainty. She holds a master’s in sustainable engineering from the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (France) and a master’s in fluid mechanics applied to energy, from ENSEEIHT in Toulouse (France).