About Us
CUE aspires to be a world-class research and innovation centre dedicated to solving our most pressing urban energy challenges.
Focus Areas
CUE’s focus areas are climate change, microgrids, demand management, efficiency, electricity planning, hydrogen, conservation, electric vehicles, net zero buildings, policy and regulation, renewables, smart grids, storage, transmission and distribution, and transactive energy.
Expertise
CUE combines the perspectives of engineering, science, environmental studies, business, social sciences, public policy, law and infrastructure management.
Activities
Research, Testing and Consulting
Sponsored projects and reports are executed in collaboration with government, industry and academic partners.
Testing of products or prototypes is completed at world-class, state-of-the-art laboratories.
Consulting projects draw on our capacity for multidisciplinary collaborations between industry professionals and academic researchers, as well as access to our unique laboratories.
Education
Professional development is offered through a formalized curriculum and an executive education seminar series.
Innovation
As part of TMU’s Zone Learning ecosystem and housed in CUE, CEZ is a startup incubator focused on fostering innovative ideas and businesses in the clean and sustainable energy sector
- Build academic, public and private sector partnerships
- Conduct research, development and demonstration, leading to commercialization
- Create the next generation of energy entrepreneurs
- Encourage multidisciplinary and collaborative approaches
- Provide scholarship and learning opportunities