Krausert said the challenge is to figure out how to use existing infrastructure in that transition.
Ling Bai, managing partner of VL Energy Ltd., is working out of the centre with three other employees. The company is a consulting firm looking to commercialize its predictive emission monitoring technology that would have broad applications throughout the sector. “It’s a journey. Some people know what the next step is and you don’t know the next steps, that’s how I learned,” she said. “This ecosystem in this Energy Transition Centre, it really accelerated my own journey for my own development.”
“Our students — I like to characterize as the value generation — they’re very interested in how we improve the world around us,” said Ed McCauley, president and vice-chancellor of the U of C. “Ensuring secure safe and low carbon supplies of energy, I think is vitally important to any of our students.”