Partnerships
Since 2010, we have worked with dozens of partners on a wide range of projects focused on delivering tangible solutions to pressing energy issues. These are our key partnerships.
Our long-term relationship with this founding partner — covering areas such as the integration of wind and solar power on its network, the design of faster electric vehicle charging stations and the analysis of its carbon footprint — continues to expand into new areas. Four three-year research projects to launch in 2021 will explore distributed energy resource (DER) forecasting and modelling.
As a founding sponsor, the IESO has been integral to CUE’s success. The organization has sponsored five fellowships focused on areas that are key to the modernization of Ontario’s grid: energy storage, conservation and transactive energy. In 2020, yet another productive year for the partnership, IESO fellows developed software for a Transactive Energy Distribution System (TEDS) and created the TEDS Lab at CUE.
Our award-winning partnership with Toronto Hydro has tackled a wide range of projects across the city. These include addressing power quality challenges for key customers such as manufacturing plants and hospitals, installing a pole-top energy storage system on Toronto’s grid, piloting a grid-scale battery on Ryerson’s campus and helping prevent shoulder injuries among the company’s workers.
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Toronto Hydro is proud to have played a role in establishing Toronto Metropolitan University's (formerly Ryerson University) Centre for Urban Energy. Since its inception in 2010, CUE has focused its research and collaborations on overcoming energy challenges faced by our communities and industries. The centre's work has expanded our knowledge base, uncovered effective solutions and contributed to the betterment of energy provision for all of us who live and work in our city.
The Schneider Electric Smart Grid Laboratory opened in 2015 with a $500,000 investment, and in 2018 the company provided $1 million worth of equipment towards a new Smart Building Analytics Living Lab on campus. Schneider Electric’s commitment to CUE extends to its place on the CUE advisory board and on the NSERC Energy Storage Technology Network (NESTNet) research and commercialization committees.
Our relationship with India’s largest power generation company was established in 2017 and continues to expand into new areas of research, covering distribution models, loss reduction, renewables, and electric vehicles. CUE researchers also developed a clean electricity roadmap for Delhi, the world’s second-biggest city.
NESTNet has transformed Canada’s energy storage sector — and its impact will be seen for generations to come. Leading researchers from across Canada came together to commercialize cutting-edge clean technologies, train highly qualified professionals and publish more than 500 journal articles and papers.
The energy landscape has been rapidly changing in recent years. Schneider Electric continues to be a proud partner with the Centre for Urban Energy to drive meaningful change.
Tata Power has been working closely with the Centre for Urban Energy forthe last five years in multiple areas covering efficient distribution network planning models and edge-of-the-grid solutions such as rooftop solar, storage and electric vehicle charging. We look forward to continued collaboration and co-innovation with the faculty and scholars of Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University).
NSERC’s research partnerships support collaborations that allow new scientific evidence to be created which economically, socially or environmentally benefits Canada and Canadians. We are pleased to have supported the NSERC Energy Storage Technology Network at Toronto Metropolitan University's (formerly Ryerson University) Centre for Urban Energy that has brought together leading academic, industry, utility and government partners to work together to develop the next generation of energy storage technologies and products in Canada.