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Partnership Engage Grants are expected to respond to the objectives of the Insight program and the Connection program. They provide short-term and timely support for partnered research activities that will inform decision-making at a single partner organization from the public, private or not-for-profit sector. The small-scale, stakeholder-driven partnerships supported through the Partnership Engage Grants are meant to respond to immediate needs and time constraints facing organizations in non-academic sectors. In addressing an organization-specific need, challenge and/or opportunity, these partnerships let non-academic organizations and postsecondary researchers access each other’s unique knowledge, expertise and capabilities on topics of mutual interest.
SSHRC welcomes applications involving Aboriginal research, as well as those involving research-creation.
Here are the six future challenge areas selected by SSHRC through the Imagining Canada’s Future initiative. Possible subquestions under each challenge area may include, but are not limited to, the ideas listed.
Congratulations to the 2017 Energy Council of Canada Energy Policy Research Fellowship Recipients
The EOI template should then be completed and submitted by 23:59 EDT, September 25, 2017. No EOI submitted after that deadline will be accepted. Natural Resources Canada recommends that proponents keep a record of the date and time their EOI was submitted as proof in case of any dispute.
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A clean environment and a strong economy go hand-in-hand. To advance Canada’s efforts to build a clean economy, the Federal Government proposed investments in green infrastructure, including initiatives that will support the implementation of the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change.
Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) is proposing to advance Canada’s efforts to build a clean economy by accelerating the market entry of next generation clean energy…
Reid Miller, Lukasz Golab, & Catherine Rosenberg
The theory behind time-of-use electricity pricing is simple. Charge more for electricity when demand is highest, and consumers will either reduce the amount they use or shift their consumption to a lower-cost time of day. However, quantifying that impact isn’t so simple.
Yes, you can compare electricity consumption before and after time-of-use pricing is introduced. However, weather changes from year to year, affecting how much people use fans, air conditioners, furnaces and space heaters.…
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…
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