An overseas perspective: Canada’s renewable and solar energy capabilities Saroj Mishra Canadian High Commission Environ

1. An overseas perspective: Canada’s renewable and solar energy capabilities Saroj Mishra Canadian High Commission Environment & Energy Enclave August 26-27, 2011, Kolkata

2. Renewable Energy Sector • Huge network of dedicated stakeholders with sector employing well over 70,000 people across Canada • Federal and provincial governments have broad suite of programs and Incentives: Clean Energy Fund (CEF), Green Infrastructure Fund, Eco Energy Programs…

3. Cleantech in Canada Some facts and figures: • Renewable energy clusters located in various provinces and territories- (Ontario, Quebec, B.C, Alberta…) • 73% of Canada’s electricity already comes from clean sources – world’s biggest producer of hydropower • Canada has committed to a 17% reduction of GHGs by 2020 from 2005 levels • Investments in sustainable technologies currently represent 7.6% of total investments in Canada and this is increasing markedly • Venture capital investment is significant NA wide

4. Renewable Energy Capabilities • Canada has strong capabilities in a wide range of renewable energy • Wind • Hydrogen and fuel cells • Bio fuels • Solar • Hydro • Solid waste • Green building • Geothermal • Tidal and wave energy

5. Cleantech R & D Capacity • Canada has world class research capacity in the cleantech sector, e.g.: • National Research Council of Canada (NRC) • CANMET Energy • National Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) • Universities and colleges

6. Canada home to about 350 solar energy companies NA- world’s 3rd largest solar PV market Over the past 10 years, Canada has seen sustained domestic growth averaging 20% per year for both PV and Solar Thermal Federal and provincial incentives for manufacturing and deployment of solar panels Solar Power Scenario

7. Strengths: Producer of raw material used in manufacturing (silicon) Harsh climate expertise including design Installation of off-grid power systems for rural telecomms Solar power LED technology Photo-voltaic concentrator technology Solar water heating systems for commercial and multi-unit applications Concentrated solar power collectors designed to combine solar heat and power generation in a unit Solar Power Business

8. Solar Photovoltaics in Ontario • About 185 megawatts (MW) of large-scale solar photovoltaic ‘farms’ have been built in Ontario • New rates for solar photovoltaic electricity are being covered in the Feed in Tariff, as part of Ontario’s Green Energy Act 80 MW installation 100 kilowatt Installation

9. Ontario’s Solar Program • Government launched the FiT and microFiT programs • This program is the first of its kind in North America to encourage the development of of clean renewable energy • The FiT program is intended for installations over 10 kW while the microFiT program is to encourage the development of micro-scale renewable energy projects, such as residential SPV installations

10. FiT Rates for PV Size Rate ($/kWh) < 0 kW $0.802 10-250 kW $0.713 250-500 kW $0.635 > 500 kW $0.539 < 10 MW ground mount $0.443

11. Ontario’s Sarnia Photovoltaic Power Plant • Sarnia – world’s largest 80 MW SPV plant • This can power more than 12,000 homes • Project developed by Enbridge – consists of 1,000,000 panels • Located on 950 acres panel surface area which is about 1.3 million thin film panels

12. Ontario Photovoltaic Manufacturers

13. Research Areas • Carbon nanotubes in high efficiency flexible organic solar cells • Dye-sensitized solar cells • Nano-engineered thin film materials for dye sensitized cells • GaAs solar cells on Ge substrates • Silicon photovoltaics, thin film nanocrystalline-amorphous silicon-carbon materials and devices • New organic materials (polycarbazoles, poly-indolocarbazoles) in PV cells • Efficiency of organic PV with rare earth doped nano-particles • Photovoltaic cells based on dye sensitized nano-particles of TiO2 • Low temperature thin film silicon devices • Flexible three dimensional solar cell technologies using quantum dots

14. Photovoltaic Innovation Network • The Photovoltaic Innovation Network is a partnership between the research community, industry, government, funding agencies and advocacy groups to foster and accelerate the widespread adoption of photovoltaics (PV) as a renewable energy resource in Canada • It provides a networking ground between industry members and researchers in the photovoltaic community, across 13 universities in Canada • The network aims to provide a knowledge and technology base that will help Canada compete globally, and develop new intellectual property in PV for adoption by Canadian industry • Network is based at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario

15. Solar Buildings Research Network • The Network is the major Canadian research effort in solar energy utilization in buildings, bringing together 24 Canadian researchers from 10 universities to develop solar-optimized homes and commercial buildings in the future. • 5 of the 10 participating universities in the Network are from Ontario • Network includes researchers and experts from government and the private sector, and draws $6 million in funding from both sectors.

16. Canada-India Possible Cooperation in Solar? • Huge opportunity for industry to cooperate because of mammoth size of Indian solar opportunity and Canadian investment opportunities • Opportunity to collaborate in supply of modules, batteries, controls, inverters etc. • Small scale power solutions both on-grid and off-grid offer potential to collaborate • Rooftop solar • R, D & D in energy storage, new materials and smart solutions • Replicate model projects to demonstrate carbon reduction

17. Examples of Canadian Technologies • Spheral Solar Power – A division of ATS Automation Tooling Systems uses thousands of tiny silicon spheres bonded to thin, flexible substrates • Day4Energy – Stay-powerful™ Technology is comprised of a polymer film embedded with a number of copper wires specially coated with a proprietary, low-temperature melting point alloy • Canadian Solar - One of the world’s largest solar module producers. As a leading vertically integrated provider of ingots, wafers, solar cells, solar modules, solar power systems and specialized solar products • Carmanah Technologies – Solar LED lighting technology • Others: 5N Plus, Menova, 6N Silicon, Plutonic Power, Conserval Engineering, Arise Technologies Corporation

18. Opportunities Under Bi-lateral Cooperation • Canada India Energy MoU • Canada India Environment Cooperation • Canada India S&T Agreement – International Science and Technology Partnerships Canada Inc. (ISTP Canada) and Global Innovation & Technology Alliance (GITA) spearheading efforts on joint research work • Learning from cooperation under universities • Industry-university collaboration

19. Cleantech Trade Team India Team Manager : Shaun Wedick, Chennai Team Lead : Dr Saroj Mishra, New Delhi Team members • Ms Subha Sundarajan, Chennai • Gurbans Sobti, Chandigarh • Ms Yasmine Dubash, Mumbai • Vittal Nath, Bangalore • Vikram Jain, Hyderabad Email: india.commerce@international.gc.ca