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Full Paper Submission Deadline: August 30th 2017
Conference Dates: January 29th - 30th, 2018
Best Paper Awards and Best Student Paper Awards will be conferred at the conference (in order to qualify for the award, the paper must be presented at the conference).
Scope/topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:
| Sustainable/ renewable energy: • Biofuels / Biofuel Cells |
Michael Fowler, Ushnik Mukherjee, Sean Walker, Azadeh Maroufmashat, Abdullah Alsubaie, Daniel Van Lanen & Ali Elkamel
Power-to-gas systems may offer the energy storage solution the green energy sector has been searching for, allowing grid managers to match supply and demand. The process uses surplus electricity produced by wind and solar power to split water into oxygen and hydrogen.
That hydrogen then can be injected into existing natural gas distribution lines — providing customers with cleaner, hydrogen-enriched natural gas — or converted back to electricity when the grid needs it hours, weeks or months.…
The Energy Council of Canada Energy Policy Research Fellowship will provide $500,000 over 10 years to graduate students engaged in energy policy research. Annual fellowships valued at $15,000 for Master's students and $25,000 for Doctoral students will be awarded to eligible full-time graduate students registered at the University of Waterloo. Students must demonstrate interest in energy policy research defined annually by the Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy (WISE) in conjunction with Energy Council of Canada.
The 2017 call for Energy Council of Canada Energy Policy Research Fellowship is now closed.
This summit takes place from June 13, 2017 to June 16, 2017
The biennial summit, which has been hosted previously in Indonesia, Norway, and Canada, will gather 700 students from 120 countries. Speakers represent a wide range of expertise, ranging from policy-making to geopolitics, to technology, and private development. You can visit the summit website here to see the latest version of the program.
The Summit's delegates are students from undergraduate, graduate, and PhD programs. I would very much appreciate if you could circulate this with the…
Energy Council of Canada Fellow Bronwyn Lazowski
At the beginning of April 2017, I had the great opportunity to represent the University of Waterloo and the Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy at the 1st International Conference on Energy Research and Social Science. Hosted in Sitges, Spain, this conference brought together an engaging group of academics, policy makers and professionals in the sphere of energy research and social science. Affiliated with the Energy Research & Social Science Journal, the theme for the…
Michael Fowler, Manoj Mathew, Q.H. Kong, Jake McGrory
Even rechargeable batteries eventually die. Month after month of using a battery, topping it up and repeating the cycle gradually reduces its ability to hold a charge and the amount power it can supply. That’s why electric vehicle (EV) manufacturers suggest replacing the battery pack when its storage capacity drops below 80 per cent of maximum, and have 8 year warranties.
WISE researchers envisioned a different approach. A battery is only as strong as its weakest cells, propose researchers in…
Smart Grids for Smart Communities | |
Call-for-Abstracts Details & Guidelines | |
| Key conference topic areas embrace a wide range of automation, information technology, operations, infrastructure, standards, compliance and other topics, as listed below. The conference will focus on the leading topics, including grid resiliency, integrating energy storage, evolving the grid and consumer engagement to name a few. | |
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Anindya Sen
Mention hydro bills at any Tim Hortons in Ontario and you’re sure to set off a chorus of grumbling. Electricity rates in the province have skyrocketed in recent years. Today, they’re among the highest in Canada.
According to WISE researcher Anindya Sen, that’s due in part to the province’s High-5 program. Introduced in 2011, it provides incentives for large industries to reduce electricity consumption during the highest demand hours of the year.
Trimming peak consumption avoids the need to…
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The Shale Oil Revolution in the USA – Can it Continue?
Maurice B. Dusseault
Professor of Geological Engineering, University of Waterloo
WISE Member
As one may deduce from a number of recent articles, shale oil in the US (and slightly in Canada) has come to play a remarkable and novel role in the world of oil prices. Although once viewed as a challenging and difficult “unconventional” resource, drilling improvements, hydraulic fracturing improvements, and an “assembly line”…
Here in the Region of Waterloo we are lucky to have a reliable supply of energy - for lighting our homes, charging our phones and fueling our transportation. It’s so reliable that it’s practically invisible. We often don’t recognize its value until the power is out.
Power Shift is an events and communication campaign that sparks conversations about the Region of Waterloo’s relationship with energy. This Earth Week, check out events for children, adults and families hosted by local organizations around Cambridge, Kitchener and Waterloo and shift how you think about power.
Visit the official Power Shift website for details!
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