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Prof. Ian Rowlands and MES-ERS graduate student Farhan Rahman will present the results of their research at the 1000 Islands Energy Research Forum, to be held at the University of Ottawa from 23-25 October.  The full program can be found here.

Profs. Ian Rowlands and Paul Parker – along with Faculty of Environment alum Tobi Reid (ERS ’13) – have just had an article published in the journal, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Energy and Environment.

Prof. Ian Rowlands has published a blog entry entitled, '"Let’s talk!": More local conversations can advance energy sustainability'. It can be viewed on the WISE website, here.

Prof. Paul Parker will travel to China next week to share his expertise about growing the green economy with green energy.  Prof. Parker will focus on Ontario's experience of closing the coal plants and investing in renewable electricity, on retrofitting houses for efficiency and comfort gains, and on building low carbon subdivisions to test pathways to a low carbon future.

Today, Ian Rowlands, in collaboration with research partners at Carleton University, had an article published in Renewable Energy.  Entitled, 'Managing Solar-PV Variability With Geographical Dispersion:  An Ontario (Canada) Case-study', it examines the extent to which the broad distribution of solar-PV panels in Ontario might lead to better performance, on a variety of metrics.  The article can be found in Vol. 68, August 2014, pp. 171-180 or here.

The Energy Hub Management System project (energyhub.uwaterloo.ca) is looking for a full-time Community Engagement Analyst (28 April 2014 to 22 August 2014).  This job opportunity is being concurrently offered through the University of Waterloo's co-operative education system and through this 'open posting'.  Full details may be found here.

Prof. Paul Parker recently returned from Oklahoma, where he gave a series of three lectures at the University of Oklahoma.  Two were for students taking a course on 'Sustainability and Global Environmental Change', and were entitled, 'Sustainability Macro Solutions:  Policies and Technology', and 'Sustainability Micro Solutions:  Information, Incentives and Action'. The other was a public lecture, entitled, 'How to Turn Sustainability Research into Practice:  Reducing Carbon in Electricity and Saving Water'.

Sustainable Energy Policy at the University of Waterloo has launched a twitter account.  @SEPuWaterloo is intended to be a means of communicating our research group's activities with like-minded individuals, both with uWaterloo and beyond; additionally, it will be a means of fostering increased communication and collaboration among our members.

All those interested are encouraged to follow us!

ENV graduate students Nicholas Belanger and Junna Zhao, along with ENV  Professors Ian Rowlands and Paul Parker, will present some of their research findings at the upcoming Annual Workshop of the Ontario Network for Sustainable Energy Policy.