The National Research Council-Canada's Institute for Fuel Cell Innovation (NRC-IFCI) and Concurrent Technologies Corporation (CTC), will hold an international workshop on "Achieving Cleaner Distributed Power Generation in Remote Locations," March 10–11, 2008, in Vancouver, British Columbia (BC), Canada.

The workshop will be conducted jointly by Dr. Yoga Yogendran, Director, Technology Deployment and Commercialization, NRC-IFCI (National Research Council - Institute for Fuel Cell Innovation), and CTC's Dr. Cheng-Guan Michael Quah, Executive Director, Energy and Environmental Sustainability, Strategic Initiatives. Workshop participants will explore remote community needs, challenges and opportunities in supplying power and energy through the use of distributed generation and microgrids.

The workshop will engage participants in a dialogue around issues and challenges of powering remote communities as well as exploring opportunities to work with remote communities to develop and deploy clean energy distributed power systems. The speakers will be from the governments of Canada and the United States, military and provincial authorities, electric utilities, technology suppliers, academia, and the communities. Among the confirmed speakers are:

• GEN (ret) Paul Kern, The Cohen Group, ex-Commanding General of U.S. Army Materiel Command (AMC) and Army Research, Development, Engineering Command (RDECOM)
• Christine Ianniciello, British Columbia Provincial Government
• Ed Andrukaitis, Canadian Department of National Defence (DND)
• Frank Holcomb, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Engineer Research & Development Center-Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (ERDC-CERL)
• Dr. Darrell Massie, Intelligent Power & Energy Research Corporation (IPERC)
• Nick Hawley, British Columbia Hydro
• and others …..

If you are interested in attending the workshop, see the NRC informational flyer for details.

For more information about the workshop, contact Marty Rogers, Vice President, CTCanada, 613-850-4282, rogersm@ctcanada.org, or Dr. Cheng-Guan Michael Quah, 814-243-1333, quahm@ctc.com.