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Prior to the annual Resource Recovery Partnership Workshop held on June 6 of same year, WISE along with partners at the Canadian Plastics Industry Association, the University of Waterloo and Lafarge arranged a webinar exploring the concept of energy from waste. This hour-long webinar featured Robert Cumming, Lafarge Canada Inc. and Briaan Lisk, Hawthorne Green Key Group.

Prof. Roydon Fraser, Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, was invited to present his research relating to low-carbon energy development and the applications in the area of transportation. Prof. Fraser also presented the role and vision of WISE to help transform our energy future through partnership.

Research Spotlight: Helping Households Save Power

Research Spotlight: Optimizing Power Flow

WISE Public Lecture: Energy Economics - Towards Sustainable Development & A 'Green GDP'

WISE Public Lecture: Experimental and Computational Optimization of a Wind Turbine Blade De-Icing System

WISE Public Lecture: Natural Gas - An Important Transportation Fuel as Part of a Low Emission Logistics Strategy

The Council for Clean and Reliable Energy and the Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy (WISE) organized the 1^st annual Technology Innovation and Policy Forum 2016. This inaugural event was intended to bring together policymakers, technology innovators, leading researchers and entrepreneurs, to address the convergence of policy development with technology advances. The goal of the forum was to understand the timing and impact of emerging disruptive technologies on the current policy regime, and to understand the impacts of microgrids embedded on a large scale within existing networks.

Event title: Microgrids & Distributed Energy: Is there a revolution in the making?

WISE Public Lecture: Demand-side Management, Micro-Grids, Demand Response and Reducing the Need to Overbuild Capacity