Canada recently announced investments into a dozen projects nationwide aimed at advancing the mining and clean energy sectors. Minister of Energy Tim Hodgson unveiled up to $73 million in funding, including $51M through the First and Last Mile Fund for five projects to advance critical minerals production, as well as $20M under the Energy Innovation […]
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As Energy Bills Climb, ‘Greener Homes’ Retrofit Program Expands to More Provinces
The federal government recently announced the expansion of the Canada Greener Homes Affordability Program. At the International Energy Agency Global Energy Efficiency Conference in Montreal, federal minister Tim Hodgson confirmed that the retrofit-oriented program will expand to Quebec, British Columbia, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. “Energy bills are too high and too volatile for […]
Invinity Partners With Indigenous-Led Developer to Advance Long-Duration Energy Storage Across Canada
Canada’s clean electricity buildout will need more than new generation. It will also need storage that can help keep power reliable when demand rises and renewable output fluctuates. Invinity Energy Systems has announced a strategic collaboration with the First Nations Utility Batteries Partnership to advance long-duration battery energy storage projects across Canada. Under a newly […]
pH7 Draws Federal Support to Validate Company’s Copper Cleantech in Canada
Vancouver-based pH7 Technologies has secured funding from Natural Resources Canada through the Energy Innovation Program’s Mining Decarbonization Demonstration Call for Proposals to evaluate a first-of-its-kind copper production technology using samples from a local mine in British Columbia. The critical metals processing innovator says the project, supported by up to $5 million in federal capital, will […]
Seeking to Be an Energy World Leader, Canada Aims to Unlock Potential of Alberta
Canada, it appears, is finally realizing how much it needs Alberta. The province continues to boast the nation’s strongest per-capita economy, despite federal initiatives around “Net Zero” hampering the energy-focused region’s ability to grow over the past decade. Backpedaling a bit, the federal government spent a week in Alberta, where trade minister Dominic LeBlanc met […]
Deep Sky Alpha’s Direct Air Capture Marks a Carbon Credit First in North America
Deep Sky and Isometric announced this week that they have captured and permanently removed carbon from the atmosphere in Alberta. Montreal-based Deep Sky is the world’s first tech-agnostic carbon removal project developer aiming to remove gigatons of carbon from the atmosphere and store it underground. Isometric, meanwhile, is an agentic certification platform for the environmental […]
Canada Invests $20M Across 13 Projects to Improve Energy Efficiency of Industry
Canada’s government is investing nearly $20 million into 13 projects to advance clean energy innovation across the nation’s industrial sector. The investments hail from the Green Industrial Facilities and Manufacturing Program and the Energy Innovation Program, and target projects within Alberta. The GIFMP supports energy efficiency and energy management solutions in Canada’s industrial sector, while […]
NorthX Backs Moment Energy With $3 Million To Expand Second-Life Battery Storage In B.C.
NorthX Climate Tech has invested another $3 million in Moment Energy, backing the B.C. company’s efforts to bring more second-life battery storage systems into commercial deployment. The follow-on investment is aimed at solving a common but often overlooked challenge in clean energy deployment: the gap between when project costs are incurred and when project revenues […]
VCC Launches Clean Energy Training Programs as B.C. Workforce Needs Shift
Vancouver Community College is expanding its clean energy training offerings as British Columbia prepares for growing workforce demand across renewable energy, electric vehicles, building systems, and electrical infrastructure. The Vancouver college announced this week that it is launching a series of new and expanded clean energy programs designed in partnership with industry. The goal is […]
Moment Energy Opens Megafactory To Give Retired EV Batteries A Second Life
A Vancouver cleantech company is scaling up a new approach to energy storage at a moment when power demand is rising across North America. Moment Energy has officially opened Megafactory 1 in Surrey, B.C., a facility the company says is the world’s largest EV battery repurposing facility. The site will turn retired electric vehicle batteries […]