Sustainable Energy Applied Research Centre

圣劳伦斯学院将在未来五年内扩大其在可持续能源技术方面的应用研究活动，创建一个可持续能源应用研究中心。 应用研究将利用学院能源系统工程技术计划，以及风力涡轮机技术，土木工程，仪表控制工程和其他计划的教师专业知识，并将涉及高度积极的大学生。 合作伙伴将来自安大略东部快速发展的可持续能源行业和当地大学的研究人员。 这些项目将协助原型开发和实地测试，提高新技术和现有技术的效率，并发展与太阳能、地热能、风能和生物质能有关的各种新兴技术的相互整合以及与现有电网的整合。 通常情况下，该领域的中小企业（SME）和研究人员一样专注于单一技术（仅太阳能，仅风能等）。可持续能源技术的采用将得到极大的帮助，如果1）基本性能可以提高，2）它可以与包括公共电网在内的传统技术相吻合，3）多种新技术或旧技术可以集成到一个灵活有效的系统中。 大多数中小企业没有研究资源。 圣劳伦斯学院可以通过促进合作应用研究来改善和整合技术，从而与区域中小企业和大学一起利用其全面的能源系统规划。 SEARC及其研究网络准备在头两年启动近20个研究项目，并提供资源促进研究企业，在五年内完成60个项目，并将成果商业化，同时直接涉及500多名大学生。 SEARC将极大地丰富大学的教学和学习平台，培养优秀的高素质人才，显著支持地方和国家的可持续能源部门。

St. Lawrence College will expand its applied research activity in sustainable energy technologies over the next five years, creating a Sustainable Energy Applied Research Centre. Applied research will draw upon faculty expertise in the college's Energy Systems Engineering Technology Program, as well as Wind Turbine Technology, Civil Engineering, Instrumentation Control Engineering, and other programs, and will involve highly motivated college students. Partners will come from eastern Ontario's fast-growing sustainable energy industries and local university researchers. Projects will assist prototype development and field testing, improve efficiencies in new and existing technologies, and develop integrations of the variety of emerging technologies concerned with solar, geothermal, wind, and biomass energy with one another and with the existing power grid. Typically, small and medium enterprises (SME's) in the field have focused upon a single technology (just solar, just wind, etc) as have researchers. Sustainable energy technology adoption will be greatly aided if 1) basic performance can be enhanced, 2) it can dovetail with conventional technology including the public power grid, and 3) multiple new or old technologies can be integrated into a supple and effective system. Most SME's do not have research resources. St. Lawrence College can leverage its comprehensive energy system programming with regional SME's and universities by facilitating collaborative applied research to improve and integrate the technologies. SEARC and its research network are ready to launch almost 20 research projects in the first two years, with resources in place to promote the research enterprise, completing 60 projects in five years, and to commercialize results, while directly involving over 500 college students. SEARC will greatly enrich the college teaching and learning platform, producing superb Highly Qualified Personnel significantly supporting the sustainable energy sector, locally and nationally.