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Speaker: Lalith Gunaratne Topic: Renewable Energy Adventures: Solar and Small Hydro Stories that bind Canada and Sri Lanka Time: Apr 3, 2024 Summary: The presentation will highlight a lifetime of renewable energy adventures with solar and small hydro that began with a Canadian-Sri Lankan collaboration in 1985 - continuing to date. The entrepreneurship story is […]
Speaker: Paul Martin Topic: Hydrogen, Hopium, and Scale. Time: Jun 26, 2024 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: EV vs hydrogen trucks and the materials and primary energy fallacy myths. Biography: Paul Martin is a Toronto based chemical engineer with extensive experience in consulting engineering. He has about three decades worth of experience with a […]
Topic: Thermal Networks and Nuclear Energy – a pathway to decarbonizing building heating Speaker: Dr. Robert Walker Time: 24 July 2024 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: In Canada, about as much energy is used to heat buildings as is delivered as electricity for all purposes. Current plans for achieving net-zero buildings include retrofitting the millions […]
Speaker: Dr. Art Hunter Subject: Project Payback. Financial benefits of a microgrid as part of a virtual power plant Time: 4 Sept 2024 13:30 Eastern Standard Time (US and Canada) Summary: Home rooftop solar panels and home batteries provide a microgrid owner with energy independence from grid failures. Recently the Ontario Energy board approved Ultra-Low […]
Speaker: Dr. Raymond Murphy Topic: What is Undermining Climate Change Mitigation? How Fossil-fuelled Practices Challenge Low-carbon Transitions Time: Nov 27, 2024 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: Why are fossil fuels stuck at eighty per cent of global energy despite impressive rollouts of wind and solar energy and increased efficiencies? This investigation documents that […]
Speaker: Jake Brooks Topic: Achieving reliability in a Net Zero Ontario electrical grid. Time: Jan 22, 2025 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: Although low carbon sources of bulk electricity are becoming increasingly straightforward and economic to source, ensuring grid reliability is more complex than simply supplying bulk power. Focused attention will be needed […]
Topic: OREC: Empowering Ontario communities with renewable energy Speakers: John Kirkwood & Dick Bakker Time: Mar 12, 2025, at 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Dick John Summary Ontario's electricity system is at a critical juncture. The government's own forecast indicates we will need 75% […]
