Archives: Research

Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Integrating climate and physical constraints into assessments of net capture from direct air capture facilities

Few credible experts see how we’ll reach net-zero emissions without actively removing carbon dioxide out of the air, perhaps through direct air capture technologies. This has become an active research area over the past two decades, but most existing work doesn’t consider how ambient environmental conditions—temperature, humidity, pressure,... More

Monday, December 16, 2024

Luis wins Best Poster Award at EMH 2024

Congratulations to 2nd year PhD student, Luis Lopez Diaz, for winning the Best Poster Award at the 2024 edition of EMH! He presented his work on optimizing the flexibility of active distribution networks to support the larger transmission... More

Friday, December 16, 2022

Green hydrogen production in the Atlantic Maritimes for fossil fuel-exit

Research published recently by the APEX group assesses the cost and performance of integrated energy systems that employ offshore wind power and water electrolysis to supplant liquid and gaseous fuel consumption in the Atlantic Maritimes region of Canada. Apart from hydropower, it is difficult to find an energy technology in Canada around which... More

Wednesday, November 23, 2022

Announcing new 5-year research project supported by ECCC: Bending the Curve with NETs

The Government of Canada’s Environmental Damages Fund, administered by Environment and Climate Change Canada, is allocating $1.489 million to Carleton University for the research project entitled “Bending the Curve with NETS: Developing a New Modelling Framework for Negative Emissions Technologies”. The project is led by Dr. Kristen R.... More

Monday, July 12, 2021

Spatio-temporal probabilistic wind power forecasting framework

Accurate probabilistic forecasting of wind power output is critical to maximizing network integration of this clean energy source. New research by Professors Arrieta-Prieto and Schell, published in the International Journal of Forecasting, developed a spatio-temporal framework that outperformed competitive models in both the univariate and... More

Monday, June 29, 2020

Integrating societal preferences in large-scale optimization models of the energy system

Public policy has grown increasingly reliant on complex analytical models that, while valuable, rarely integrate behavioural constraints in theoretically appropriate or practically relevant ways. By offering a simplistic representation of the real world, these models risk producing unrealistic results and leading to potentially myopic decision... More

Monday, June 29, 2020

Enhancing the performance of technology development programs

Since the conclusion of World War II, policymakers in the U.S. have maintained a broad and firm consensus regarding the critical role that government-supported innovation plays in that nation's welfare. For a number of reasons, however, the pillars of American innovation are under threat at a time when urgent challenges require government to make... More

Monday, June 29, 2020

Optimizing the development and deployment of negative emissions technologies

Deep decarbonization of the energy system over the course of this century is a prerequisite to averting the worst consequences of climate change. Many decarbonization pathways have been proposed, most of which envision a substantial expansion in the deployment of variable and intermittent renewable energy sources, mainly solar and wind power. What... More

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