The 5th Canada-China Clean Energy Research and Training Partnership Conference was successfully held in Shanghai from April 23 to April 24, 2015. The Conference was jointly organized by Shanghai Advanced Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Sciences (SARI) and Institute of Electrical Engineering, CAS. The feature theme of this year’s conference is “Intelligent Energy Micro-grid in City or District”. More than 60 attendees from China and Canada joined the event.

President of SARI, Prof. Feng Songlin gave a keynote speech on city intelligent energy network (CIEN) in SARI. Vice President Wang Maohua delivered a welcome address. The invited experts delivered plenary presentations about Renewable energy, energy Internet, carbon emission and CCUS Technology. During the two parallel sessions , the attendees made in-depth discussions and communications on renewable energy, smart grid, green transportation and energy manage system.
The participants also visited the energy station of CIEN, and spoke high of the demonstration project.
Professor Peter Wild from the University of Victoria expressed his thanks to the organizers of the conference during the closing remarks, mentioned the progress made along the way for the conference started by Chinese and Canadian experts, and invited the participants to join the next conference to be held in Canada.
The Canada-China Clean Energy conference is dedicated to forge a platform for experts from academia and industry to exchange research progress and ideas for the development of clean energy, and develop research cooperation.