The Queen’s University Solar Calorimetry Lab, headed by Professor Steve Harrison, comprises a group of nearly 20 and is a world leader in the field of designing, analyzing, modelling, and improving solar heating systems and components. With the help of Kingston’s PARTEQ Innovations, it spun off Enerworks Inc., North America’s leading provider of solar thermal technology and still performs research work for that company. This locally developed technology is reaching the mass market stage of commercialization. Solar thermal power is a multi-billion dollar a year market globally. Work in this area is concentrating on systems integration, manufacturing techniques, and improvements in the areas of new materials, to improve the cost, reliability and durability of their product as it expands into the global mass market and faces global competitors. High profile activities include the Enerworks spinoff and its solar thermal systems, Solar cooling, with a pilot project in northern Kingston, the potential of making good use of spare heavy manufacturing capacity in Ontario.