Research

Januray 2013

• An article entitled 'Developing smart tools for householders: making the smart grid work (PDF)' -- outlining some of the project's work with the goal-setting tool -- was the lead article in the January 2013 edition of Municipal World. 

 December 2012

• An Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Transactions on Smart Grid with the title of "Optimal operation of residential energy hubs in smart grids" is published by M. Chehreghani, S. A. Hashmi, H. Hassen, C. A. Cañizares, and K. Bhattacharya. Abstract: ​Optimal operation of residential energy hubs in smart grids.

October 2012

• Some team members gathered at a pilot participant's home in Milton, Ontario to discuss the project.

Left to right: Frank Lasowksi (President and CEO, Milton Hydro), Gord Ellis (CTO, Energent), Ian Rowlands (Professor, University of Waterloo), Deep Mehta (Milton homeowner).

August 2012

• PhD student Sumit Paudyal successfully defended his PhD thesis, entitled, 'Optimal Energy Management of Distribution Systems and Industrial Energy Hubs in Smart Grids'. Abstract: Optimal energy management of distribution systems and industrial energy hubs in smart grids.

June 2012

• Julia Shulist presented her work at McMaster's Conference entitled, 'Conservation and Demand Management in a Sustainable Energy Future'.  Her poster was entitled, 'Goal-setting for residential electricity conservation (PDF)'.

May 2012

• Visit the Energy Hub Management System booth at Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE)'s Discovery 2012 conference on 14 and 15 May at Booth 330.

March 2012

• Ontario's Environmental Commission - Gord Miller - interviews Energent's Craig Haney about the energy hub management system at Globe 2012 in Vancouver.  Watch the interview on Youtube.

February 2012

• Amanda San Filippo successfully defended her Masters of Environmental Studies (MES) thesis entitled, 'Interpreting barriers to energy efficiency within Southern Ontario municipal buildings: a case study'.  

December 2011

• Project members participated in the Behavior, energy and climate change conference in Washington, DC. Christina Hoicka presented a poster, and Ian Rowlands delivered a presentation (PDF).

October 2011

• An Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Transactions on Industial Electronics with the title of "Optimal operation of distribution feeders in smart grids" is published by S. Paudyal, C. A. Cañizares, and K. Bhattacharya. Abstract: ​Optimal operation of distribution feeders in smart grids.

September 2011

• Eric Mallia successfully defended his Master of Environmental Studies (MES) thesis entitled, 'Exploring householders’ interest in home energy goal-setting (PDF)'. 

August 2011

• Mohammad Chehreghani Bozchalui successfully completed his PhD in Electrical and Computing Engineering.  The abstract for his thesis, 'Optimal operation of energy hubs in the context of smart grids', is availabe.

July 2011

• An interview with Energent's Craig Haney, as he describes some of our work (13 June 2011).
• Mohammad Chehreghani Bozchalui, a PhD student in Electrical and Computing Engineering on the project, received a Student Award from Mprime – Canada’s only Network of Centres of Excellence for the mathematical sciences, which brings together academia, industry and the public sector to develop cutting edge mathematical tools vital to the knowledge-based economy. Mohammad will receive his award at the 7th International congress on industrial and applied mathematics - (ICIAM) 2011 in Vancouver on 21 July 2011. Congratulations, Mohammad!

June 2011

• The poster that Sumit Paudyal will present at the 2011 Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers - Power and Energy Society (EEE-PES) general meeting in Detroit on 25 July 2011, entitled 'Three-phase distribution optimal power flow (OPF) in Smart Grids (PDF)', is available for viewing.

May 2011

• On 18 and 19 May 2011, visit the Energent booth at Discovery 2011 to get more information about the Energy Hub Management System.
• On 10 May 2011, Ian Rowlands is scheduled to present at the Ontario power summit.
• On 2 May 2011, Ian Rowlands and Claudio Canizares reported on the Energy hub management system to the Ontario smart grid forum. View a copy of the slides.

April 2011

• Energent CEO, Chris Reid, has published an article entitled 'Lessons from smart grid pilot in Canada can be applied to New England', in which he references the Energy Hub Management System project.
• The posters that Mohammed Chehreghani (July 2009) and Sumit Paudyal (July 2010) presented are now available on-line.  Go to the respective dates, below, and click where indicated.

March 2011

• Eric Mallia – a second year Master's student in Environment and Resource Studies at uWaterloo working on the project – won the award for best poster at the University of Waterloo’s 3rd Annual Student Colloquium on Climate Change.   Held on 10 and 11 March 2011, Eric’s poster was entitled ‘Exploring Home Electricity Management Strategies as a Climate Change Mitigation Option’.

October 2010

• As part of the activities  associated with the opening of the University of Waterloo’s Energy Research Centre and the appointment of project member Prof. Claudio Canizares as the inaugural Hydro One Endowed Chair, a number of posters reporting upon the project’s work were presented.

July 2010

• Sumit Paudyal presented some of his work (PDF) at the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers - Power and Energy Society (IEEE-PES) General Meeting (Minneapolis, MN, July 2010). 

June 2010

• Christina Hoicka presented a poster entitled '"Smart" Industrial, Commercial and Institutional Consumers in Smart Grids: Identifying Models of Information Use and Communication' at the United Kingdom Energy Research Centre (UKERC) PhD summer school (University of Warwick, UK, June 2010).

May 2010

• In May 2010, Mary Beth Deline successfully defended her Master of Environmental Studies (MES) thesis entitled ‘Keeping up with the Joneses: electricity consumption, publicity and social network influence in Milton, Ontario (PDF)'.
• Sumit Paudyal presented some of his work in a session entitled ‘High Performance Optimization and Applications’ at the Mitacs/ Cross-origin Resource Sharing (CORS) 2010 annual conference (Edmonton, AB, May 2010). His presentation (developed with Claudio Cañizares and Kankar Bhattacharya) was entitled ‘Optimal Operation of Distribution Feeders in Smart Grids’.
• The project participated in Discovery 2010. 

November 2009

• Mary Beth Deline presented a poster (co-authored with Ian Rowlands) entitled ‘Keeping Up With the Joneses - Energy Consumption, Publicity and Social Network Influence‘ at the 2009 Behavior, energy & Climate change conference (Washington, DC, November 2009)

October 2009

• Energent, one of the industry partners to the EHMS project, is profiled in the ​Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) Annual Report (page 29). 

September 2009

• Energy Hub partners are profiled in The Kitchener-Waterloo Record.

July 2009

• Mohammad Chehreghani Bozchalui presented a poster (co-authored with Claudio Cañizares and Kankar Bhattacharya) entitled ‘Mathematical optimization modeling of energy hub management systems’ (PDF) at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Power & Energy Society General Meeting (Calgary, AB, July 2009).  

June 2009

• The project is mentioned again on pages 30 and 32 of the IPPSO FACTO magazine in an article called "Energy management hubs". 

May 2009

• A number of faculty and students who are on the ​Energy Hub Management System (EHMS) project had a booth set up at Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) Discovery '09.  For more information about the event which was held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre from May 11-12 2009 please follow the Ontario Centres of Excellence Discovery link.
• You can also view the posters that we displayed at OCE Discovery by following these links:
  • Discovery '09 Energy hub management system overview poster (PDF)
  • Discovery '09 Energy hub management system streams poster (PDF)

March 2009

• The project was also mentioned in the 2009 edition of Watch (PDF), a magazine published by the University of Waterloo Research and Technology Park, on pages 12-13. 

February 2009

• The project is mentioned on pages 14-16 of IPPSO FACTO in an article entitled "Hi-tech firm gets a boost". 

October 2008

• Professor Ian Rowlands from uWaterloo and David Curtis from Hydro One made a presentation about the Energy hub management system project (PDF).  

February 2008

• The Energy Hub Management System (EHMS) project was mentioned in an article entitled "Energent to Participate in Clean Energy Project," on the Accelerator Centre web site.