Posts Tagged: sustainability
The technology boom and a looming shortage of trained workers in the next five to ten years have set the stage for an aggressive electricity sector renewal project. “Our success will very much be determined by our efforts to ensure…
The prototype sustainable power plant that University of Toronto Professor Olivier Trescases (ECE) is demonstrating doesn’t look like much. A simple black-box battery connected by clips to red and yellow wires that go to a decades-old electricity meter, then by…
The University of Toronto Centre for Applied Power Electronics (CAPE) will receive $720,000 in funding for its smart-grid community lithium-ion battery solution for utility energy storage project. Mark Warawa, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of the Environment and Member of…
Compute Canada, a national platform of advanced computing resources across the country, has announced the largest ever awards of supercomputing resources to researchers working in areas from biomedicine and brain function to aircraft and aviation fuel design. These competitively-awarded grants…
Most people have never been up close to a natural gas processing plant, an oil sands operation or a large wind turbine. Yet the energy sector fuels not only Alberta’s prosperity, but also drives the country’s economic engine. Continued innovation…
Audrey Kertesz, an ECE student in her first year of graduate studies and specializing in control theory, received the 2010 André Hamer Postgraduate Prize from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) in Ottawa on Monday, February…
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