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Grid Flexibility, Enhancing Forecasting and Planning, Distributed Energy Resources - EVs
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2024 | Active Project Attridge Transportation Inc. - Attridge-Toronto Hydro-Electric Services Limited (THESL) EV Storage ProjectThe Attridge-THESL EV-Storage Project seeks to showcase and measure the effectiveness of using EV school bus fleets as dynamic energy storage systems, providing essential grid flexibility services such as demand response and peak load management to Toronto Hydro and the IESO. |
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Infrastructure Resilience, Decarbonization, Enhancing Forecasting and Planning
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2024 | Active Project Confederation College - Local Distribution Company (LDC) grid peak demand management by using customer sited large scale heat pump system integrated with thermal storage tanksThe project concept is to design, build, and operate a new heating and storage system, aligned with Confederation College’s net zero targets, that can integrate with the distribution grid. Through control integration between blackPAC™ DERMS, the Powerconsumer platform, and the distributor, activation of customer-sited load can shave distribution system winter peaks. |
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Enabling Non-Wires Alternatives, Distributed Energy Resources - EVs
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2021 | Completed Project BluWave-ai - EV EverywhereThe project results are expected to reduce peak demand and inform potential deferral of future infrastructure upgrades. It will create a framework for Hydro Ottawa to participate in the EV market creatively, leveraging the investment in EVs to provide distribution non-wires solutions in the form of demand response and demonstrate the effectiveness of pairing this strategy with front-of-meter (FOM) batteries with dispatchable injection capabilities. |
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Distributed Energy Resources - EVs
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2021 | Completed Project Enel X Canada Ltd. - Unlocking Distributed Energy Resource (DER) Participation Across OntarioEnabling and aggregating heterogenous behind the meter resources in the IESO administered markets (IAMs) with improved and streamlined participation models. |
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Enhancing Forecasting and Planning, Market Integration
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2021 | Completed Project Essex Powerlines Corporation - DSO Pilot ProjectKey outcomes of this project include a deeper understanding of a Distribution System Operator (DSO) structure in Ontario and the running of a local electricity market, the performance of DERs and DER aggregations, and their ability to reliably meet real, local needs and simulated wholesale needs by local and IESO Market Rules, transmission-distribution coordination processes, the value of DERs as non-wires alternatives to mitigate local and bulk level constraints while deferring traditional infrastructure upgrades, and the level of engagement and interest from DER asset owners to provide grid services. |
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Distributed Energy Resources DER, Market Integration
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2021 | Active Project PowerON Energy Solutions LP - Battery Storage for Electric Bus Charging, Demand Reduction and Grid ServicesBehind-the-meter battery storage and smart charging management will provide backup power, global adjustment savings, distribution system upgrade deferral and provision of demand reduction grid services. |
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Enabling Non-Wires Alternatives, Transmission Distribution Co-ordination
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2021 | Active Project Toronto Hydro - Benefit Stacking Transmission and Distribution System Non-Wires Alternatives Pilot ProjectThe result of the project will create a process for better coordination between Toronto Hydro and the IESO in the deployment of Local Demand Response (LDR) capacity to address target constraints at both the distribution system and bulk-system levels of the electricity grid. |
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Enhancing Forecasting and Planning
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2020 | Completed Project CanmetEnergy - Enabling Ratepayer Cost Savings by Adding Demand Response/Load Reduction Capabilities and Deep Retrofit Facility Archetypes to RETScreen ExpertThis project will enable Ontario ratepayer cost savings by developing and integrating, into the RETScreen Clean Energy Management Software (RETScreen Expert), demand response and load reduction analysis capabilities, as well as deep retrofit facility archetypes. These new capabilities will then be built into RETScreen Expert’s Virtual Energy Analyzer to facilitate rapid and low-cost identification of cost-effective demand response (i.e. peak clipping and peak shifting), load reduction (i.e. electricity fuel switching) and energy efficiency (i.e. reduced electricity consumption) measures and technologies. |
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Distributed Energy Resources - EVs, Enhancing Forecasting and Planning
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2020 | Completed Project Elocity Technologies - Hyper Integrated Electric Vehicles PlatformIntegrate an end-to-end AI-powered solution that provides the data and control needed to manage EV electricity demand. The pilot aims to demonstrate the value of an interoperable and secure digital platform for LDCs to understand, visualize and predict EV power demand, including peak load reduction/shifting and cost savings for EV drivers. |
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Enabling Non-Wires Alternatives
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2020 | Completed Project Great Lakes Greenhouses Inc. - Energy Efficient Autonomous GreenhouseDemonstrate the application of an intelligent autonomous agent controlling a greenhouse with the objective of reducing the energy footprint of the facility without negatively impacting crop yield. |
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Infrastructure Resilience, Enabling Non-Wires Alternatives
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2020 | Completed Project Hydro One - Residential Reliability Improvement Pilot ProjectHydro One is proposing to improve the reliability for 50-100 rural residential customers on the distribution system who are experiencing extremely long outage duration (greater than 50 hours annually) by installing, operating, and maintaining behind-the-meter (BTM) Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) that provide whole-home backup. |
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Distributed Energy Resources DER, Ehancing Forecasting and Planning
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2020 | Completed Project Powerconsumer - Finding Value in Local Energy MarketsDevelop a software platform that could facilitate transactions between DER owners, or DER aggregators, and local utilities. The platform would be used to simulate the operation of a future local energy market within the Newmarket Tay and Elexicon service territories, and estimate the energy, cost and reliability benefits of using local resources to meet local need. |
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Decarbonization
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2020 | Completed Project Region of Waterloo - Membrane Aerated Biofilm Reactor (MABR) Demonstration at Wastewater Treatment PlantReplace the existing aeration equipment at the Hespeler Wastewater Treatment Plant in Cambridge, Ontario, with MABR technology to reduce electricity and demand consumption. The project will conduct measurement and verification to quantify the energy and demand savings and greenhouse gas reduction resulting from the MABR technology. |
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Distributed Energy Resources - EVs, Market Integration
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2020 | Completed Project Sky Clean Energy - Optimal Vehicle-to-Grid Charging System considering solar, storage and user privacyDevelop a public facing, V2G enabled, distributed ledger technology based charging system that aggregates multiple on-site DERs (storage and solar) to participate in demand response events. The project aims to develop best practices for an interoperable, scalable and secure V2G model for Ontario, while delivering energy savings and peak load reduction. |
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Distributed Energy Resources - EVs, Transmission Distribution Co-ordination
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2020 | Completed Project Survalent Technology Corporation - Energy Management Platform for Autonomous and Multi-Market Participation of DERsEstablish a framework and a real-time information platform that aggregates the LDCs’ Advanced Distribution Management Systems (ADMS) data to increase autonomous and market participation for distributed energy resources (DERs). Inform a business case for LDCs on how they can plan and invest to integrate DERs into distribution systems to meet current and future needs. |
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Decarbonization
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2020 | Completed Project Toronto 2030 District - Zero Emissions RoadmapDiscover the pathway to a GHG-emissions-free building sector by 2050 through engagement and input of 40+ stakeholders from the sector through a series of workshops. The findings will be adaptable by any Ontario city, given the mix of building types involved in the project. |
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Decarbonization
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2020 | Completed Project York University - Underground Seasonal StorageThe project is aimed at evaluating a new approach for identifying suitable aquifers for large scale seasonal thermal energy storage applications. This geological survey will provide inputs for a feasibility study to assess the techno economic potential of integrating large-scale underground seasonal storage into an example of an Ontario large electricity consumer, such as at York University Keele campus. |
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Distributed Energy Resources - EVs
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2019 | Completed Project Alectra - Alectra Drive@HomeAlectra Utilities seeks to develop and implement an electric vehicle (EV) deployment model for residential customers to identify the economic, technical, regulatory and customer outreach considerations that will be relevant to deploy these solutions at scale in the future to benefit the local and provincial electricity system. |
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Decarbonization
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2019 | Completed Project EnerQuality - Net Zero TAP PilotIncrease penetration of new net-zero technologies into mainstream new housing by engaging individual builders to pilot new net-zero technologies. The result is a technology adoption model that can be replicated across the province and integrated into future conservation programming. |
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Distributed Energy Resources - EVs , Enhancing Forecasting and Planning
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2019 | Completed Project Essex Powerlines Corporation - DER and EV Visibility ToolEnhance the SmartMAP software, which is a geospatial load analysis tool used by utilities, to enable visibility to EVs and DERs and their impact on distribution system assets. The software enhancements will add detection algorithms that allow for EV charging loads to be automatically identified, improving both visibility and data analysis. |
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Decarbonization, Electrification
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2019 | Completed Project Toronto and Region Conservation Authority - Small and Medium Enterprises Unite to Fast Track Strategic Energy ManagementThis project will demonstrate a Community of Practice program model for industrial sector small-to-medium enterprises to learn about and adopt long-lasting and high impact energy efficiency measures. |
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Distributed Energy Resources DER, Enabling Non-Wires Alternatives
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2019 | Completed Project University of Windsor - Powering Greenhouse Sector Expansion with Distributed Energy Resource SolutionsReduce reliance on grid supplied electricity and enable the deferral of costly transmission infrastructure construction, and mitigate additional electricity costs. |
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Decarbonization, Electrification
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2018 | Completed Project City of Toronto - Waterfront Neighborhood Centre Deep Energy RetrofitThis deep energy retrofit will demonstrate a commercial- scale lake-based geothermal system. The demonstration will produce valuable quantitative and qualitative information on the technology, and deep energy retrofits more broadly, to inform future deployments. |
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Enabling Non-Wires Alternatives
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2018 | Completed Project Innovia GEO Corp. - Pile-Integrated Geo-Exchange System for Geothermal Heating and CoolingDemonstration of an innovative geothermal solution integrating a geo-exchange system into a helical steel pile at a transformer station in Waterloo. The system consists of a conventional geo-exchange ground loop as well as a geo-exchange pile array to enable a side-by-side comparison of the heating and cooling performance of the two systems. |
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Electrification, Decarbonization
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2018 | Completed Project Newmont (formerly Goldcorp) - Distributed Underground Air Compressors DemonstrationPilot small distributed air compressors to achieve compressed air needs in mines using 50% less energy compared to a conventional central surface compressor plant with the associated underground distribution. Create wider implementation within and beyond Ontario and enhance the case for building new mines or converting existing mines to all electric. |
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Distributed Energy Resources DER, Market Integration
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2018 | Completed Project Opus One Solutions - Transactive Energy Network for Clean Generation, Energy Storage, Electric VehicleDemonstrate the feasibility of resource-agnostic DERs in market-based approach to unlock the value to the distribution and bulk systems while coordinating with local system safety constraints, enhancing market efficiency, and system reliability. |
