Sustainable Energy Applied Research Centre

圣劳伦斯学院将在未来五年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项目以及风力涡轮机技术、土木工程、仪器控制工程和其他项目的教员专业知识，并将吸引积极性很高的大学生参与。合作伙伴将来自安大略省东部快速增长的可持续能源行业和当地的大学研究人员。项目将协助原型开发和现场测试，提高新技术和现有技术的效率，并将与太阳能、地热、风能和生物质能源有关的各种新兴技术相互整合，并与现有电网整合。通常，该领域的中小型企业(SME)像研究人员一样，专注于单一技术(仅限太阳能、仅限风能等)。如果1)基本性能能够得到提高，2)它可以与包括公共电网在内的传统技术相衔接，3)多种新技术或旧技术可以集成到一个灵活而有效的系统中，那么可持续能源技术的采用将得到极大的帮助。大多数中小企业没有研究资源。圣劳伦斯学院可以利用其与区域中小企业和大学的全面能源系统规划，通过促进协作应用研究来改进和整合技术。SEARC及其研究网络准备在头两年启动近20个研究项目，并准备好资源来促进研究事业，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，培养出优秀的、高素质的人才，为地方和国家的可持续能源行业提供重要支持。

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.