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Colonel By Boardroom, 2nd Floor
City Hall, 110 Laurier Avenue West
7:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
Moving Bits Instead of Electrons: How the ICT Sector is Uniquely Positioned to be Powered by Renewable Energy
Guest Speakers
Bill St. Arnaud, Chief Research Officer, CANARIE Inc.
Session Overview
One of the major challenges of utilizing more renewable energy sources, such as wind turbines, is the inadequate electrical transmission infrastructure currently in place to feed the power from remote windmill farms and small hydro-electric facilities to potential customers. It will take many years and billions of dollars to upgrade the U.S. electrical transmission infrastructure to meet the renewable energy targets being proposed by state and federal governments. However, there is another solution. Rather than bringing power to the major users of electricity, bring the user to the electricity generating source.
The telecom and data center industries consume upwards of 10 per cent of all of the electricity produced in the U.S., and are responsible for up to five per cent of all green house gas emissions. In Canada, these telecom and data centre industries are ideally positioned to take advantage of the opportunity to relocate their computing and telecommunication hubs to renewable energy sites that are interconnected to their major markets through high speed optical networks.
Join Bill St. Arnaud, Chief Research Officer at CANARIE, as he describes CANARIE's new Green IT Program designed to demonstrate the use of renewable energy to power the ICT sector.
Speaker Bio
Bill St. Arnaud is Chief Research Officer for CANARIE Inc.-Canada's Advanced Internet Development Organization. At CANARIE, Mr. St. Arnaud has been responsible for the coordination and implementation of Canada's next generation optical Internet initiative called CA*net 4. Currently he is leading a Green IT initiative, using cyber-infrastructure and Internet to address the challenge of climate change.
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Date
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Time
7:30 a.m. - Registration and continental breakfast
8:00 a.m. - Presentation
9:00 a.m. - Event concludes
Location
Colonel By Boardroom, 2nd Floor
City Hall, 110 Laurier Avenue West
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