The Canadian Trade Commissioner Service An overseas perspective: Canada’s renewable and solar energy capabilities Saroj Mishra Canadian High Commission Environment & Energy Enclave August 26-27, 2011, Kolkata
Dec 22, 2015
The Canadian TradeCommissioner Service
An overseas perspective: Canada’s renewable and solar energy capabilities
Saroj MishraCanadian High Commission
Environment & Energy EnclaveAugust 26-27, 2011, Kolkata
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• 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…
Renewable Energy Sector
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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
Cleantech in Canada
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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
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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
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• 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
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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
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• 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 Act80 MW installation
100 kilowatt Installation
Solar Photovoltaics in Ontario
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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
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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
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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
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Ontario Photovoltaic Manufacturers
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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: [email protected]