Preparing for Climate Change through Energy Internet and eVehicles: Quebec to invest $60 million in Green ICT for future low carbon economy

Energy Internet and eVehicles Overview

Governments around the world are wrestling with the challenge of how to prepare society for inevitable climate change. To date most people have been focused on how to reduce Green House Gas emissions, but now there is growing recognition that regardless of what we do to mitigate against climate change the planet is going to be significantly warmer in the coming years with all the attendant problems of more frequent droughts, flooding, sever storms, etc. As such we need to invest in solutions that provide a more robust and resilient infrastructure to withstand this environmental onslaught especially for our electrical and telecommunications systems and at the same time reduce our carbon footprint.

Linking renewable energy with high speed Internet using fiber to the home combined with autonomous eVehicles and dynamic charging where vehicle's batteries are charged as it travels along the road, may provide for a whole new "energy Internet" infrastructure for linking small distributed renewable energy sources to users that is far more robust and resilient to survive climate change than today's centralized command and control infrastructure. These new energy architectures will also significantly reduce our carbon footprint. For more details please see:

Using autonomous eVehicles for Renewable Energy Transportation and Distribution: http://goo.gl/bXO6x and http://goo.gl/UDz37

Free High Speed Internet to the Home or School Integrated with solar roof top: http://goo.gl/wGjVG

High level architecture of Internet Networks to survive Climate Change: https://goo.gl/24SiUP

Architecture and routing protocols for Energy Internet: http://goo.gl/niWy1g

How to use Green Bond Funds to underwrite costs of new network and energy infrastructure: https://goo.gl/74Bptd

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Quebec to invest $60 million in Green ICT for future low carbon economy

[Kudos to the Quebec Government in this bold strategy. This investment combined with Quebec’s abundance of clean energy will make Quebec a global powerhouse in the future low carbon economy. Special credit must be given to the Quebec based organizations PROMPTinc (www.promptinc.org) and the Greenstar project (http://www.greenstarnetwork.com/) for their global leadership in this field.—BSA]

http://www.mdeie.gouv.qc.ca/index.php?id=6884

“Ecolo TIC” (Ecology ITC)

A proposed $ 60 million which consists of structuring a partnership between government and business leaders in this field. This project enable the development and demonstration of new products or systems that promote the reduction of consumption energy or the development of other systems have a positive effect on the environment.

This initiative, which aims to share the risk with the companies in the ICT sector, will leverage the strengths of Quebec, including the centers private research centers, research and public research groups, universities and SMEs, whose work will contribute to specific projects. It will create a pool of world-class expertise in the niche of green ICT, where innovation technology and maximize commercial benefits go hand in hand.

The government will invest $ 30 million over three years. The contribution of the private sector will be $ 30 million for the same period.

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