Saurabh Biswas

Project Summary: The energy landscape is changing. Local and decentralized energy is viewed not only as a solution to meeting climate commitments, but also to ensuring energy security in remote regions. The success of decentralized energy systems and technologies hinges on effective and supporting policy and regulatory environments. The first part of this project is focused on identification of the dominant factors (e.g., regulatory, ownership, policy) that either enable or constrain decentralized energy in remote northern communities. The second part of this project is technology-specific and futures-oriented, focused on the policy and regulatory reforms required to support small modular nuclear reactors as a viable energy source. This research responds to national and provincial commitments to transition energy systems, power remote regions and to introduce small modular nuclear reactor technology to the energy mix. This project is connected with the broader Community Appropriate Sustainable Energy Security (CASES) research initiative.

Internal Mentors: Dr. Bram Noble and Dr. Greg Poelzer

External Mentors: Grant Crawford, SaskPower

• CASES Research Initiative