GBA Members Recognized for Innovation!

June 27, 2019

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GBA Members Recognized for Innovation!

On 20 June, the consortium of London Hydro with Electron, ENMAX, University of Western Ontario, Navigant, and Gowling WLG was announced as a finalist team in the Natural Resources Canada (NRCan/RNCan) and United Kingdom (UK) Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy’s PowerForward Challenge. The aim of the Canada-UK PowerForward Challenge is for Canada and the UK to collaborate to envision and demonstrate breakthrough smart grid solutions that modernize the way they access clean, flexible and reliable energy. The finalist teams were selected from 44 project proposals and are eligible to receive up to CAD $3 million (£1.8 million) to begin building their smart-energy solution.

On 14 May, eIQ Mobility, and 14 other start-up companies, participated in the IlluminationLAB start-up challenge held in Columbus, Ohio, co-hosted by American Electric Power (AEP) and the American Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). eIQ Mobility was named the winner of the start-up challenge during the Illumination Energy Summit held 15-16 May. As the winner of the challenge, eIQ Mobility will run a 10-week fleet electrification project with AEP to scale and test eIQ Mobility’s cloud-based, fleet machine-learning technology with fleet, meter, and other data.

On 14 May, the Canadian Electricity Association hosted its 2019 Centre of Excellence to showcase innovation in electricity. London Hydro was named a Centre of Excellence award winner for its "Shaping Customer Experience Using Real-time Controls and Green Button (Youth Project)" pilot which combined critical peak demand response events and "behind the meter" energy-management tools to help customers understand energy impacts in real-time, powered by Green Button. London Hydro's Trickl mobile app simplified customer engagement by consolidating in-home device control, energy monitoring, and demand response.