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An overseas perspective: Canada’s renewable and solar energy capabilities Saroj Mishra Canadian High Commission Environment & Energy Enclave August 26-27, 2011, Kolkata. Renewable Energy Sector.
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An overseas perspective: Canada’s renewable and solar energy capabilities Saroj Mishra Canadian High Commission Environment & Energy Enclave August 26-27, 2011, Kolkata
Renewable Energy Sector • Huge network of dedicated stakeholders with sector employing well over 70,000 people across Canada • Federal and provincial governments have broad suite of programs and Incentives: Clean Energy Fund (CEF), Green Infrastructure Fund, Eco Energy Programs…
Cleantech in Canada Some facts and figures: • Renewable energy clusters located in various provinces and territories- (Ontario, Quebec, B.C, Alberta…) • 73% of Canada’s electricity already comes from clean sources – world’s biggest producer of hydropower • Canada has committed to a 17% reduction of GHGs by 2020 from 2005 levels • Investments in sustainable technologies currently represent 7.6% of total investments in Canada and this is increasing markedly • Venture capital investment is significant NA wide
Renewable Energy Capabilities • Canada has strong capabilities in a wide range of renewable energy • Wind • Hydrogen and fuel cells • Bio fuels • Solar • Hydro • Solid waste • Green building • Geothermal • Tidal and wave energy
Cleantech R & D Capacity • Canada has world class research capacity in the cleantech sector, e.g.: • National Research Council of Canada (NRC) • CANMET Energy • National Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) • Universities and colleges
Canada home to about 350 solar energy companies NA- world’s 3rd largest solar PV market Over the past 10 years, Canada has seen sustained domestic growth averaging 20% per year for both PV and Solar Thermal Federal and provincial incentives for manufacturing and deployment of solar panels Solar Power Scenario
Strengths: Producer of raw material used in manufacturing (silicon) Harsh climate expertise including design Installation of off-grid power systems for rural telecomms Solar power LED technology Photo-voltaic concentrator technology Solar water heating systems for commercial and multi-unit applications Concentrated solar power collectors designed to combine solar heat and power generation in a unit Solar Power Business
Solar Photovoltaics in Ontario • About 185 megawatts (MW) of large-scale solar photovoltaic ‘farms’ have been built in Ontario • New rates for solar photovoltaic electricity are being covered in the Feed in Tariff, as part of Ontario’s Green Energy Act 80 MW installation 100 kilowatt Installation
Ontario’s Solar Program • Government launched the FiT and microFiT programs • This program is the first of its kind in North America to encourage the development of of clean renewable energy • The FiT program is intended for installations over 10 kW while the microFiT program is to encourage the development of micro-scale renewable energy projects, such as residential SPV installations
FiT Rates for PV Size Rate ($/kWh) < 0 kW $0.802 10-250 kW $0.713 250-500 kW $0.635 > 500 kW $0.539 < 10 MW ground mount $0.443
Ontario’s Sarnia Photovoltaic Power Plant • Sarnia – world’s largest 80 MW SPV plant • This can power more than 12,000 homes • Project developed by Enbridge – consists of 1,000,000 panels • Located on 950 acres panel surface area which is about 1.3 million thin film panels
Research Areas • Carbon nanotubes in high efficiency flexible organic solar cells • Dye-sensitized solar cells • Nano-engineered thin film materials for dye sensitized cells • GaAs solar cells on Ge substrates • Silicon photovoltaics, thin film nanocrystalline-amorphous silicon-carbon materials and devices • New organic materials (polycarbazoles, poly-indolocarbazoles) in PV cells • Efficiency of organic PV with rare earth doped nano-particles • Photovoltaic cells based on dye sensitized nano-particles of TiO2 • Low temperature thin film silicon devices • Flexible three dimensional solar cell technologies using quantum dots
Photovoltaic Innovation Network • The Photovoltaic Innovation Network is a partnership between the research community, industry, government, funding agencies and advocacy groups to foster and accelerate the widespread adoption of photovoltaics (PV) as a renewable energy resource in Canada • It provides a networking ground between industry members and researchers in the photovoltaic community, across 13 universities in Canada • The network aims to provide a knowledge and technology base that will help Canada compete globally, and develop new intellectual property in PV for adoption by Canadian industry • Network is based at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario
Solar Buildings Research Network • The Network is the major Canadian research effort in solar energy utilization in buildings, bringing together 24 Canadian researchers from 10 universities to develop solar-optimized homes and commercial buildings in the future. • 5 of the 10 participating universities in the Network are from Ontario • Network includes researchers and experts from government and the private sector, and draws $6 million in funding from both sectors.
Canada-India Possible Cooperation in Solar? • Huge opportunity for industry to cooperate because of mammoth size of Indian solar opportunity and Canadian investment opportunities • Opportunity to collaborate in supply of modules, batteries, controls, inverters etc. • Small scale power solutions both on-grid and off-grid offer potential to collaborate • Rooftop solar • R, D & D in energy storage, new materials and smart solutions • Replicate model projects to demonstrate carbon reduction
Examples of Canadian Technologies • Spheral Solar Power – A division of ATS Automation Tooling Systems uses thousands of tiny silicon spheres bonded to thin, flexible substrates • Day4Energy – Stay-powerful™ Technology is comprised of a polymer film embedded with a number of copper wires specially coated with a proprietary, low-temperature melting point alloy • Canadian Solar - One of the world’s largest solar module producers. As a leading vertically integrated provider of ingots, wafers, solar cells, solar modules, solar power systems and specialized solar products • Carmanah Technologies – Solar LED lighting technology • Others: 5N Plus, Menova, 6N Silicon, Plutonic Power, Conserval Engineering, Arise Technologies Corporation
Opportunities Under Bi-lateral Cooperation • Canada India Energy MoU • Canada India Environment Cooperation • Canada India S&T Agreement – International Science and Technology Partnerships Canada Inc. (ISTP Canada) and Global Innovation & Technology Alliance (GITA) spearheading efforts on joint research work • Learning from cooperation under universities • Industry-university collaboration
Cleantech Trade Team India Team Manager : Shaun Wedick, Chennai Team Lead : Dr Saroj Mishra, New Delhi Team members • Ms Subha Sundarajan, Chennai • Gurbans Sobti, Chandigarh • Ms Yasmine Dubash, Mumbai • Vittal Nath, Bangalore • Vikram Jain, Hyderabad Email: india.commerce@international.gc.ca