Solutions for intelligent energy management
LIREI is a multidisciplinary team of researchers, members of the Hydrogen Research Institute (IRH) at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières. Since 1999, we have been working to optimize energy use in buildings and vehicles, with a particular interest in hydrogen and renewable energy.
2023-2028 research program with Hydro-Québec's LTE/IREQ and Polytechnique Montréal: unlocking customer energy flexibility through local energy service markets and hierarchical distribution grid management.
Program targeting greenhouse energy efficiency and yield in northern climates: predictive energy and climate management, robustness to uncertainty and intelligent anomaly diagnosis.
Program on microgrids for remote communities and sites: replacing diesel with hybrid renewable systems and storage, reliable even under extreme northern conditions.
The technical capabilities our programs rest on. Some belong to a single program, others run through all of them.
Design and simulation of smart power grids that use computing to better manage consumption and energy exchange…
3 projects
Energy management systems for residential buildings: demand response, thermal storage, consumption monitoring …
1 project
Application of machine learning to non-intrusive load monitoring, occupancy detection and stochastic modeling …
3 projects
Integration of hydrogen and fuel cells into energy systems, in synergy with renewable energy and the work of t…
3 projects
Transactive energy mechanisms and local flexibility markets: convex optimization, economic analysis, equity an…
4 projects
Optimization of energy use in electric and hydrogen vehicles, and integration of vehicles into the grid as fle…
2 projects
After a first Canadian edition organized in partnership with UQTR's Hydrogen Research Institute, Hyvolution Canada returns on 29-30 September 2026. The event expects more than 400 participants for two days of talks, panel discussions and networking around hydrogen technologies.
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The INRS-UQTR joint research unit on materials and technologies for the energy transition secures $2.88M: three NSERC Alliance projects and a Canada Research Chair, with Hydro-Québec, Mitacs and Arkema Canada as partners. Professor Kodjo Agbossou leads the work on solid oxide fuel cells and their integration into the power grid.
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Daniel Camilo Galeano Suárez defended his PhD in electrical engineering on 18 June 2026 at UQTR's Albert-Tessier building. A LIREI member, his work addresses equity and cost sharing in transactive energy systems: assessment frameworks for cost-sharing agreements, the effects of locational marginal pricing on fairness and voltage quality, and co-simulation of distribution grid constraints.
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