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On Friday, 20 November 2015, the leadership teams – senior management and board members – of Cambridge North Dumfries Hydro, Guelph Hydro, Kitchener Wilmot Hydro and À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ North Hydro gathered for a half-day workshop in Cambridge, Ontario to examine the future of local distribution companies.

The School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability at the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ is seeking a post-doctoral fellow (PDF) in the area of sustainable energy policy. The position will commence as soon as possible (and no later than 1 June 2016) for an 18-month period. The annual salary will be $50,000 plus benefits.

On Friday, 20 November, the leadership teams – senior management and board members – of Cambridge North Dumfries Hydro, Guelph Hydro, Kitchener Wilmot Hydro and À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ North Hydro gathered for a half-day workshop in Cambridge, Ontario to examine the future of local distribution companies. 

Energy researchers from the Faculty of Environment were busy during the Spring 2015 ‘conference season’, disseminating results and networking with partners in À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ, across Ontario and Canada and around the world. Here are a few examples.

Profs. Ian Rowlands and Paul Parker worked with Hacettepe University’s

Prof. Ian Rowlands and MES-ERS graduate student Farhan Rahman will present the results of their research at the , to be held at the University of Ottawa from 23-25 October.  The full program can be found .

Profs. Ian Rowlands and Paul Parker – along with Faculty of Environment alum Tobi Reid (ERS ’13) – have just had an article published in the journal, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Energy and Environment.

±Ê°ù´Ç´Ú.ÌýIan Rowlands has published a blog entry entitled, '"Let’s talk!": More local conversations can advance energy sustainability'. It can be viewed on the website, .

Prof. Paul Parker will travel to China next week to share his expertise about growing the green economy with green energy.  Prof. Parker will focus on Ontario's experience of closing the coal plants and investing in renewable electricity, on retrofitting houses for efficiency and comfort gains, and on building low carbon subdivisions to test pathways to a low carbon future.

Prof. Ian Rowlands is travelling to France to share research findings related to residential (electricity) demand response.  Presenting with his collaborator, Dr. Guy Newsham (National Research Council, Ottawa), the international workshop is entitled, , and is being held in Paris on 30 June and 1 July 2014.