Collaborative and Innovative Energy Solutions for Frog Lake First Nations

这个商业驱动的项目组合的目标是支持青蛙湖第一民族的努力，他们的公司和商业伙伴需要通过绿色电力的过程来解决国家气候变化目标。加拿大的电力来自多种多样、可靠的可再生和不可再生能源。不断增长的电力需求是造成温室气体排放的主要原因。工业和社区向清洁能源过渡的愿望受到需要有效能源解决方案的挑战。随着他们向更清洁的能源过渡，青蛙湖原住民将花费大量的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害；他们的保护区位于北方森林，面临严重烧伤的高风险。阿尔伯塔省的许多其他企业也处于类似的境地，有价值的基础设施、人员和资源位于北方森林，面临野火的风险。本研究组合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减灾建议。研究方法将以三个不同规模的项目为基础，这些项目将与9个伙伴组成的财团进行一系列应用研究项目，这些伙伴都作出了重大的实物贡献。野火恢复绘图将确保社区基础设施得到保护。风能连接将解决可再生风力涡轮机基础设施与现有电网连接的挑战。储能弹性将通过钒开发新的替代能源集成的长期储能解决方案。联盟成员将研究氧化还原液流电池（RFB）和再生燃料电池（RFC）的潜在应用。这项工作的新颖性和重要性基于两个关键点。这是一个新颖的合作努力的财团致力于解决和解努力通过尊重和可持续的商业伙伴关系的土著和非土著公司。它为这些公司应用创新研究和技术并将其开发成新产品或服务创造了新的机会。学生和HQP正在接受土著关系、前沿绿色能源技能和无人机超视距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.