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A Canadian Smart Grid in Transition: A Case Study of Heat for Less

2014· dissertation· en· W2193659088 on OpenAlex
Nicholas Belanger

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no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
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Bibliographic record

VenueUWSpace (University of Waterloo) · 2014
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicIntegrated Energy Systems Optimization
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTransition (genetics)Smart gridGridMechanical engineeringComputer scienceEngineeringMaterials scienceChemistryElectrical engineeringMathematicsGeometry
DOInot available

Abstract

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Energy supply is a major contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions. Smart grids, technologies which integrate information and communication components into the electricity grid, have emerged as a cost-effective means of mitigating energy supply emissions, optimizing the integration of intermittent renewables and creating new opportunities for demand side management. 
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\nSmart grid projects have been launched in many Canadian provinces, however few of these projects have succeeded beyond the pilot stage. In order to learn and benefit from these smart grid experiments, the literature suggests documenting these projects in detailed case studies.
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\nThis paper presents a case study of Heat for Less, a smart grid project in Summerside, Prince Edward Island that links the City’s excess wind capacity to smart appliances, sold and installed in the homes of residents, which store electricity in the form of heat. Drawing on desktop research and semi-structured interviews, this paper details how and why Heat for Less moved beyond the pilot stage and into wide-scale deployment. Additionally, this paper analyzes these findings by applying three frameworks from the sustainability transitions literature: strategic niche management, the multilevel perspective, and the transition pathways. 
\nThis research found that context is critical to understanding how this project moved along the innovation chain. In addition to the technological aspects of Heat for Less, the politics and social dynamics at play in the City of Summerside significantly contributed to the success of this project. 
\nFuture researchers might consider expanding upon this study by surveying the early-adopting homeowners who purchased smart appliances. Further, researchers might also consider transferring the methodology used in this paper to a similar smart grid project for comparative purposes.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.495
Threshold uncertainty score0.983

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.008
GPT teacher head0.178
Teacher spread0.171 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it