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WISE Annual Report 2022 - 2023 is now available to read and for download.

Research Spotlight by Prof. Sahar Pirooz Azad and Fatemeh Ahmadloo

Balsillie School of International Affairs will host a special event on 28 September at 2:30 and will launch the Technology Governance Initiative at the Balsillie School of International Affairs. 

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Research Spotlight by Amelia Clarke, Laura Tozer, and Samantha Linton

Right now, energy generators sell their electricity to grid operators in a competitive energy market. Grid operators also oversee a parallel “demand response” procurement program, where big energy consumers like steel plants and pulp and paper mills offer to curb their electricity use during peak time — for a price 

This can take a lot of pressure off the electricity grid. It also saves money by reducing the need for the most expensive forms of electricity generation. But according to WISE researcher Jessie Ma and her Toronto Metropolitan University colleague Bala Venkatesh, the current procurement practices create economic inefficiencies. 

A Sustainable Futures Initiative, the summer school is hosted by the Water Institute, the Waterloo Climate Institute and the Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy (WISE) and aimed at senior undergraduate and graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, practitioners and interested stakeholders.

In the case of a 100,000-square-foot office building recently constructed in Waterloo, Ontario, closing that performance gap required a complex process of optimizing the HVAC systems. 

Socio-political factors can make or break the large-scale deployment of virtually any new technology.

Flying cars are no longer reserved for sci-fi novels, with groups like Boeing, Toyota and NASA working to move electric vehicles into the skies.