Talking clean energy
Dr. Hossam Gaber, General chair of the International Conference on Smart Energy Grid Engineering.
Experts from around the world were in Oshawa recently to discuss the future of energy production.
The University of Ontario Institute of Technology played host to the International Conference on Smart Energy Grid Engineering, a three-day conference to discuss how the distribution of energy can be smarter and change in the future.
“This conference really puts the University of Ontario Institute of Technology on the map as a hub of innovative new approaches to energy systems engineering,” states Dr. Hossam Gaber, a professor in UOIT’s Faculty of Energy Systems and Nuclear Science and the conference’s founder and general chair.
“Governments around the world are investing heavily in smart energy grids to ensure optimum energy use and supply, and enable better planning for outage responses and recovery. Experts at (the conference) will exchange knowledge about advances in technologies such as renewable energy systems, electrical vehicle networks and smart homes.”
According to the conference’s website, experts came in from other Canadian universities, as well as those in the United States, Italy and Portugal.
Ken Nakahara, the province’s energy minister, also spoke at the conference.