Search Wise :
Truzaar Dordi | 30 Under 30 Sustainability Award
WISE Energy Policy Research Fellow
Truzaar Dordi (PhD Candidate, Climate Finance, University of Waterloo) is selected to be featured as one of this year's top 30 under 30 sustainability leaders by Corporate Knights! His research focuses on pathways for low-carbon transition through social and financial movements. He is also a recipient of the Energy Policy Research Fellowship with the Energy Council of Canada (ECC) in partnership with the Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy (WISE).
Truzaar’s research on stranded assets in…
An article by Prof. Jatin Nathwani and Colleagues
Published in the Journal of Energy Conversion and Management
The original article can be found here.
The global destructive effects of carbon dioxide emissions and the importance of energy storage for grid stability and peak shaving applications are in deep concern. In this regard, this paper investigates the recycling of carbon dioxide from gas-fired power plant emissions into synthetic natural gas based on a novel power-to-gas process with the aim of chemical energy storage and emission reduction. The hybrid power-to-gas process proposed in this paper…
Prof. Jatin Nathwani's Talk's on the Merits of Nuclear Energy
On this week's show: Three Green leadership candidates outline their plans for the party and two experts debate the merits of nuclear energy. One of them is Dr. Jatin Nathwani. He is the Executive Director of WISE and Professor at the Department of Management Sciences and Civil and Environmental Engineering of University of Waterloo. Dr. Nathwani was also the Ontario Research Chair in Public Policy and Sustainable Energy.
Link to Dr. Nathwani's Talk: https://wise.uwaterloo.ca/download/documents/j…
OfflineWISE Member Catherine Rosenberg weighs in on the much talked about 5G topic!
Amid much fanfare, Canada's Big 3 telecom companies introduced fifth-generation networks in major cities earlier this year and a few smartphones with 5G capabilities are now available for sale.
Yet after years of promises about next-generation wireless powering self-driving cars and robotic surgery, it's still unclear exactly what the newly launched networks are currently able to do.
The short answer, experts say, is that it will take years to understand the true potential of 5G.
Catherine…
OfflineOriginally posted by Jeff Semple, Global News
June 14, 2020 11:00 am
The original article can be found here
Paul Koch woke up one morning last month and peered out his kitchen window to find a trespasser taking a dip in their backyard pool.
“I called my wife and said, there’s a moose in the pool!”
Koch said the 800 lbs female swam a few laps and then stood calmly in the shallow end for several hours. He called police, who watched as the moose eventually made her own way out of the backyard.
A report by Jatin Nathwani and Raynier Ramasra
Published online by Balsillie School of International Affairs in the Balsillie Papers
The Post-COVID-19 Economy: Financing Canada’s Leadership in Sustainable Energy
The current federal government returned to deficit spending while the economy was still expanding, which reduced the available fiscal capacity when the COVID-19 pandemic began. With interest rates already near historic lows, current monetary capacity to stimulate the economy is also diminished. Yet while no serious voice would suggest the government stop its current efforts to sustain the economy, the politicians…
OfflineWritten by WISE Member Professor Maurice Dusseault
The combination of the Coronavirus shutdown and the KSA’s (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) attempted punishment of Russia’s oil producers and America’s shale oil frackers has shocked the Canadian oil industry profoundly. Price collapse happened in a few weeks, and no producers in Canada are profitable at the prevalent prices in the third week of April, 2020. The question in Canada is not how to respond, but how to survive, and the short-term survival options for Canadian producers are few.
Technology:…
OfflineThis week, oil futures fell below $0 per barrel. What happened? What is Canada’s plan for helping the industry at home, and will it be effective?
We put these questions to Professor Jatin Nathwani, Executive Director of the Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy.
Originally published by the University of Waterloo.
THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 2020
To see Professor Nathwani answering, click here.
What is happening in the global energy market? Why are we seeing oil prices below $0 per barrel?
Global energy markets are in turmoil for two reasons: a dramatic drop in demand because large parts of the global economy are in a 'lockdown' and the second reason, in simple terms, is that we are in a global recession.
The reason we are seeing oil…
OfflineWritten by Jatin Nathwani, Founding Executive Director of WISE for the Hill Times
WATERLOO, ONT.—Although the final pages on the unfolding human tragedy of the COVID-19 pandemic have yet to be written, the ‘tsunami-scale’ of economic disruption has led to responses by the federal and provincial governments that the most acclaimed of futurists could not have predicted even six weeks ago. If the adage, ‘Do not let a good crisis go to waste’ has any resonance, this is the perfect opportunity to re-set and re-confingure Canada’s energy sector away from dependence on oil and gas.…
Hill Times op ed by WISE Executive Director
The COVID-19 pandemic has arrived in our midst. This is a historic opportunity for the oil and gas sector to transition to a low carbon energy economy.
Prof. Nathwani is the Ontario Research Chair in Public Policy for Sustainable Energy and Executive Director of WISE
Page Options
