Ian Rowlands
Professor & Associate Director (Research) of Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy
About
Ian Rowlands has ongoing research activities associated with a number of different projects.
He is a participant in the Energy Hub Management System project, which is deploying innovative smart grid technologies in homes and businesses in southern Ontario; his work focuses upon customer engagement with these technologies.
He is a participant in the NSERC Smart Net-Zero Energy Buildings Strategic Research Network, examining the interactions between people (individually and as market participants) and advanced building technologies.
He co-leads, ‘Unlocking the Potential of Smart Grids: A Partnership to Explore Policy Dimensions’, which brings together a number of researchers to investigate policy and other social dimensions of smart grids.