University Chair Endowments

By supporting research chairs, Hydro-Québec encourages the development of knowledge in areas important to its activities, helping to prepare a new generation of competent employees capable of meeting its future needs. These chairs also facilitate industrial partnerships, which in turn maximize company contributions to research activities.

The chairs Hydro-Québec contributes to are supported financially by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). NSERC matches the contributions made by industry, thus enhancing the universities’ research capabilities for projects of interest to companies.

École Polytechnique de Montréal

• Hydro-Québec Industrial Chair in Nuclear Engineering
• NSERC/Hydro-Québec Industrial Research Chair on the Stochastic Optimization of Electricity Generation
• International Chair in Life Cycle Assessment

Université du Québec à Chicoutimi

• Industrial Chair on Atmospheric Icing of Power Network Equipment

Université Laval

• NSERC Industrial Chair on Durable Repair and Optimized Maintenance of Concrete Infrastructures
• NSERC-Hydro-Québec Industrial Research Chair in Life Cycle Optimisation for Embankment Dams

INRS-ETE

• Chaire en hydrologie statistique (Chair in statistical hydrology)

Université de Sherbrooke

• Chaire CRSNG Hydro-Québec TransÉnergie sur les structures et la mécanique de lignes de transport d’énergie électrique (NSERC Hydro-Québec TransÉnergie Chair on the structures and mechanics of power transmission lines)
• NSERC Chair in Industrial Energy Efficiency
• NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Concrete Structure Analysis
• NSERC Research Chair in Innovative FRP Composite Materials for Infrastructures
• NSERC Industrial Research Chair on High-Performance Flowable Concrete with Adapted Rheology

Concordia University

• NSERC/Hydro-Québec Industrial Research Chair: Energy Efficiency in Electrical Machines for Small Scale Renewable Energy Production Systems

McGill University

• Chair on Short-term Weather Forecasting
• NSERC/Hydro-Québec Industrial Research Chair on the Integration of Renewable Energies and Distributed Generation into the Electric Distribution Grid

École de technologie supérieure

• TransÉnergie Chair on Simulation and Control of Electric Power Systems