The Canadian TradeCommissioner Service

An overseas perspective: Canada’s renewable and solar energy capabilities

Saroj MishraCanadian High Commission

Environment & Energy EnclaveAugust 26-27, 2011, Kolkata

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• 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…

Renewable Energy Sector

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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

Cleantech in Canada

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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

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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

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• 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

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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

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• 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 Act80 MW installation

100 kilowatt Installation

Solar Photovoltaics in Ontario

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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

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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

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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

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Ontario Photovoltaic Manufacturers

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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