Smart Energy Opportunities and Challenges

The worsening environmental problems associated with the consumption of fossil fuels are forcing us to reconsider the whole issue of energy production from diversified and renewable sources, storage and conversion, distribution, as well as the various energy applications in all sectors of consumption, including transportation and buildings. The concept of smart energy represents a set of technological innovations to overcome these problems in an integrated approach, from the energy source to the point of consumption (home, business, mobility). It supports the ongoing energy transition through the development of smart vehicular (transport) and stationary (electricity grid and building) applications based on energy storage and conversion technologies, all of which are managed in real time thanks to advances in information technology and artificial intelligence.

Discussion between Sophie Brochu, CEO of Hydro-Québec, and Christine Beaulieu, actress and playwright, author of J’aime Hydro, as they share their point of view on the opportunities and challenges of smart energy.