Research Funding

• NSERC Research Tools and Instruments (RTI), “Battery cycler system for second-life electric vehicle battery testing and modelling”, 2025–2027, $150,000, PI.
• NSERC Alliance and Mitacs Joint Program, "Residential Electrification: Power Grid Impact, Mitigation Strategies and Environmental Benefits", 2024–2027, $360,000, PI.
• Collaborative Energy, Minerals and Society Research Award, "Impact of Residential Air-Source Heat Pumps on Saskatchewan’s Electrical Grid", May–Sep 2025, Co-PI.
• Mitacs Globalink Research Program, "Second-life electric vehicle batteries for energy storage system applications", Jun–Sep 2024, PI.
• NSERC Alliance, "Electric vehicle infrastructure design, optimization, and emission evaluations toward full-scale net-zero transportation sector", 2023–2027, $710,400, Co-PI.
• NSERC Alliance Preparatory Funds, "Sustainable, Profitable, and Net-zero Controlled Environment Agriculture", 2023, $35,000, PI.
• NSERC Catalyst, "Design, modeling and optimization of a hybrid wind-gravity energy system", 2023–2024, $25,000, PI.
• Mitacs Accelerate Grant, "Clean Heating Using Geothermal Heat Pump Technology: A Feasibility Study for the City of Regina", 2023–2025, $185,996, Co-PI.
• Mitacs Accelerate Grant, "Sustainable Geothermal Reservoir Energy Production, Conversion, Utilization and Energy System Integration by Using Carbon Dioxide", 2023–2027, $719,982, Co-PI.
• Mitacs Accelerate Grant, "Design and development of a Virtual Window with industrial and civil applications", 2023–2024, PI.
• Mitacs Accelerate Grant, "Sustainable Geothermal Reservoir Energy Production, Conversion, Utilization and Energy System Integration in Saskatchewan Province", 2023–2025, $240,000, Co-PI.
• NSERC Discovery Grant, "Integration of distributed energy resources into electricity systems and markets", 2021–2026, $180,000, PI.
• Mitacs Accelerate Grant, "Integration of electric vehicles into the power distribution system", 2021–2023, PI.
• Mitacs Research Training Award, "Multi-agent optimization for vehicle-to-grid applications in frequency regulation", 2020, PI.
• Mitacs Research Training Award, "Vehicle to Grid Application in Unit Commitment", 2020, PI.
• President's Research Seed Grant at the University of Regina, "Stochastic Optimization for Residential Demand Response in Power Systems and Electricity Markets", 2020–2022, PI.
• Research Opportunities Fund at the University of Regina, "Demand Response for Solar PV Energy Integration", 2021, PI.
• Research Start-Up Fund at the University of Regina, PI.

Sponsors and Partners (in alphabetical order)

I would like to express my sincere gratitude to our sponsors and partners. Without their generous support, the research in our group would never be possible.

On Media

• U of R researcher looks into how EV batteries could be used for a second life
Live-to-air interview, CBC Sask Morning Edition
• If you build it, will they run?
Discourse Research Magazine