Dec 14, 2025

2024-2025 Undergraduate Academic Calendar

2024-2025 Undergraduate Academic Calendar [ARCHIVED CALENDAR]

ENSY 4620U – Smart Grids

This course introduces smart grids. Smart grids are defined and applied at a building, neighbourhood and community (Ontario) level. Focus is mostly on electricity, however, other data systems and energy transference grids are evaluated. The course examines the challenges of modernizing and digitizing the electrical grid in Ontario. The course explores the engineering and technological challenges of smart grids, issues of privacy and security, third party access to data, technologies which allow the customer to manage their consumption of energy, and the innovation and economic opportunities of smart grids.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): ENSY 2210U and ENSY 4400U