Admissions for our programs are on a rolling basis. 

Spring Programs

Iceland: March 8-15, 2020 & March 15-22, 2020 (45 participant capacity)

Peru:  March 14-22, 2020 (30 Participant capacity)

Japan: March 7-15, 2020 (25 participant capacity)

Summer Programs

Iceland: May 11 - 19, 2020, May 18 - 26, 2020, June 1 - 9, 2020, Aug 3 - 11, 2020, Aug 10 - 18, 2020 (45 participant capacity) 

Peru: May 17 - 26, 2020 & Aug 10 - 19, 2020 (30 Participant capacity) 

Japan:  May 17 - 26, 2020 (25 participant…

Recall history. Oil was discovered in Ontario in 1865. Today, oil extraction in Ontario is no longer of any economic significance and, yet, Ontario continues to thrive. There is no reason to assume that a different economic future for Alberta or Saskatchewan is not possible. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

WATERLOO, ONT.—The positive contribution to Canada’s economic well-being by the fossil fuels resource sector—oil, coal, gas—is well-recognized, a matter of record and fully accepted…

Call it a double win. WISE researcher Maurice Dusseault and his Iranian collaborators have proposed a system that tackles two global imperatives: cutting carbon emissions and addressing water shortages at the same time. 

Renewables like wind and solar offer green sources of electricity. But to be viable on a large scale, we need a way to store excess energy when production is high and demand is low. To achieve this, Dusseault’s colleagues in Iran (Dr. Madjid Soltani, the second author, is a WISE…

WISE invites you to explore the Summary Report from the Science and Technology in Society Forum held from October 6^th to 8^th, 2018 in Kyoto, Japan. As Chair of the “Energy – Net-Zero Emissions” session, Jatin Nathwani, Founding Executive Director of the Waterloo Institute led the discussion which called for innovative solutions to meet the twin challenges of a low-carbon world combined with equitable energy.

This prestigious annual forum is organized by the Government of Japan and Chaired by the…

On behalf of the Partner Organizations (EnDev, GIZ, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT, REPIC, Siemens Stiftung, SNV and WISE) and the Scientific Committee, we are pleased to invite you to join the third International Conference on Solar Technologies and Hybrid Mini-Grids to improve energy access, at the Unversitat de les Illes Balears in Palma, Spain on April 1-3, 2020.

The main objective of the conference is to provide an opportunity for an exchange between practitioners from the industry,…

Ontario Power Generation (OPG), in collaboration with MaRS Discovery District, has recently launched the Generate Innovation Challenge to help identify new technologies that drive innovative, future-looking solutions impacting the Canadian energy landscape.

This crowd-sourced competition calls on startups, scaleups, entrepreneurs, academics, scientists and researchers from across Canada to submit ideas, technologies or solutions to four core issues (workforce and planning; inspection automation;…

The battery in an electric vehicle (EV) faces serious performance demands every time the driver steps on the accelerator or the brake. So after a number of years, when its capacity has dropped 20 to 30 per cent, it gets replaced.

But that retired battery can still function well in less demanding applications — like stationary energy storage systems of microgrids — where the fluctuations in power/energy and charge are much smaller.

Because the sun doesn’t always shine and the wind doesn’t always…

Some municipalities take a greener approach. Some burn the methane to produce electricity, but that’s an expensive process. Others use anaerobic digestion to break down food waste, but the value of the resulting compost isn’t high. 

Hyung-Sool Lee, director of the Waterloo…

Producing food consumes a lot of energy — and, as a result, creates a significant proportion of the world’s greenhouse gases. As the global population grows and the planet continues to heat up, it becomes more important than ever to produce food efficiently.

That’s why WISE member Keith Hipel, along with colleagues at York University and Queen’s University, recently scrutinized five different agricultural systems in coastal Bangladesh to compare energy efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions.

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