Source: The Climate Center
Program Title: Integrating Reliability Engineering and Resilience Assessment for Hybrid Renewable Energy Facilities Management
Amount of Funding: $155,000 (2022-2027)
Funding:
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NSERC Natural Sciences Engineering Research Council of Canada |
Program Team
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Concordia
University – SEISE Lab The Sustainable Energy & Infrastructure Systems Engineering Lab (SEISE), led by Dr. Nasiri, is at the forefront of systems engineering solutions for sustainable energy applications: https://users.encs.concordia.ca/~fuzhan/ |
Program Description
This research program will explore development of various integrated assessment, optimization, and simulation models advocating a tri-level value chain-reliability-resiliency analysis for integration of renewable energy technologies at the community scale in northern Canada. The proposed tri-level analysis targets a whole-system understanding of the opportunities and challenges of renewable energy adoption in northern communities of Canada as well as a comparative analysis of alternative renewable energy technologies in terms of value-chain, reliability, and resiliency perspectives. As such, a hybrid approach to renewable energy adoption is promoted with involvement of multiple sources of energy coupled with energy storage capacities to ensure value-added and continuous renewable energy supply pathways for northern communities that could withstand and respond to the extreme and changing climate in these geographies.