Research Areas
Low-Carbon and Offshore Renewable Tech
Helping communities explore clean, local energy options by assessing site-specific renewable energy potential, testing new battery energy storage and advanced system controls, and building the tools to keep them working in even the most challenging environments.
Distributed Systems and Hybrid Microgrids
Empowering remote and off-grid communities by analyzing their energy systems to inform local decision-making, then co-designing solutions that reflect the surrounding environment and the community’s clean energy aspirations.
Green Hydrogen and E-Fuels
Our researchers are developing new materials used in next-generation technologies to turn water into hydrogen more cheaply and efficiently than existing options. Beyond the science, ACET researchers also help communities determine whether hydrogen can meet their energy needs.
Business and Finance
Collaborating with community leaders, investors, entrepreneurs and policymakers to develop financial tools, ownership models and business strategies that support community aspirations, build resilience and expand economic opportunities.
Integrated Energy Systems
We work closely with community partners to ensure that their energy transformation makes sense for them and their local environment, and provide a big-picture view that connects everything from people and policies to power systems and economies.
Scale-Up and Acceleration
ACET's research on scale-up and acceleration explores how local, community-based energy solutions and innovations can be expanded, amplified or reproduced in ways that accelerate energy transformation in other communities across Canada and around the world.
Land acknowledgement
ACET acknowledges, with respect, the traditional territories of the Indigenous Peoples upon whose lands our five collaborating institutions are located: the lək̓ʷəŋən Peoples, Songhees Nation and Xʷsepsəm (Esquimalt Nation), and the W̱SÁNEĆ Peoples, home to the 探花系列 and Royal Roads University; the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation), home to the University of British Columbia, Vancouver campus; the Abenaki and the Wabenaki Confederacy, home to the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières; and the 14 Yukon First Nations, home to Yukon University. We also recognize the Indigenous communities and organizations with whom we have the honour to partner in advancing community-led clean energy transformations.