Collaborative and Innovative Energy Solutions for Frog Lake First Nations

这一业务驱动的项目组合的目标是支持青蛙湖原住民、他们的公司和商业合作伙伴的努力，通过绿化他们的电力来满足国家气候变化目标的需要。加拿大的电力来自各种不同和可靠的可再生能源和不可再生能源。不断增长的电力需求是温室气体排放的一个关键因素。工业和社区向更清洁能源过渡的愿望受到了对经过验证的能源解决方案的需求的挑战。随着他们过渡到更清洁的能源，青蛙湖原住民将花费大量时间和投资于新的基础设施，他们试图保护这些基础设施免受野火的侵袭；他们的保护区位于北方森林，有很高的严重燃烧风险。艾伯塔省的许多其他企业也处于类似的境地，拥有宝贵的基础设施、人员和资源，位于北部针叶林，面临野火风险。本研究的第二个目标是学习如何研究野火风险，分析这些研究的数据，并确定缓解建议。研究方法将以三个不同规模的项目为基础，这三个项目将与九个伙伴组成的财团开展一系列应用研究项目，这些伙伴都作出了重大的实物捐助。野火复原力测绘将确保社区基础设施得到保护。风能连接将解决与现有电网设施连接的可再生风力涡轮机基础设施挑战。能源储存弹性将开发新的长期能源储存解决方案，通过钒进行替代能源整合。将对氧化还原液流电池(RFB)和再生燃料电池(RFC)进行研究，以供财团成员可能采用。这项工作的新颖性和意义源于两个关键点。这是一个财团的一项新的合作努力，旨在通过土著公司和非土著公司之间相互尊重和可持续的商业伙伴关系解决和解努力。它为这些公司创造了新的机会，应用创新的研究和技术，并将其开发成新的产品或服务。学生和HQP正在接受土著关系、前沿绿色能源技能和视线外无人驾驶飞行器数据收集和分析方面的培训。

The objective of this business driven portfolio of projects is to support the efforts of Frog Lake First Nations, their corporations and business partners' need to address national climate change goals through a process of greening their electrical power. Electrical power in Canada comes from a variety of diverse and reliable renewable and non-renewable energy sources. Rising electricity demand is a key greenhouse gas contributor. The desire of industry and communities to transition to cleaner energy sources is challenged by the need for validated energy solutions. As they transition to cleaner energy sources, Frog Lake First Nations will spend considerable time and investment into novel infrastructures which they seek to protect from wildfires; their reserves are situated boreal forest and at high risk of a significant burn. Many other businesses in Alberta are in a similar position with valuable infrastructure, people and resources situated in boreal forest and at risk of wildfires. The second objective of this research portfolio is to learn how to study wild fire risk, analysis of data from those studies and identification of mitigation recommendations. The research approach will be grounded in three projects of varying sizes that will undertake a set of applied research projects with a consortium of nine partners who all make significant in-kind contributions. Wildfire Resilience Mapping will ensure community infrastructure is protected. Wind Energy Connectivity will resolve renewable wind turbine infrastructure challenges for connection to existing grid utilities. Energy Storage Resiliency will develop novel long-term energy storage solutions with alternative energy integration via Vanadium. Redox Flow Batteries (RFB) and Regenerative Fuel Cell (RFC) will be studied for potential adoption by members of the consortium. The novelty and significance of the work is grounded in two key points. This is a novel collaborative effort of a consortium working to address reconciliation efforts through respectful and sustainable business partnerships between Indigenous and non- Indigenous corporations. It creates new opportunities for these corporations to apply innovative research and technologies and develop them into new products or services. Students and HQP are being trained in Indigenous relations, leading-edge green energy skills and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Beyond Line of Sight data gathering and analysis.