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The Government of Canada is to invest up to $146 million over the next five years in 19 clean energy projects spanning energy use in buildings, community heat generation, renewables and energy storage.

The projects are being supported by the $1 billion Clean Energy Fund, which is part of the Government of Canada’s Economic Action Plan aimed at advancing the country’s development of clean energy technologies.

The Government will now begin discussions with the successful candidates on actual funding amount, which will range from $2.5 million to $20 million for each project.

Projects include a biomass-based district heating system in Québec; demonstration of smart grid technology for commercial buildings in Calgary, Alberta, Ontario and British Columbia; and a comparison of different types of solar collectors and storage technologies for residential solar-thermal heating.

Other projects include the demonstration of a 100-kW wave energy device off Vancouver Island, British Columbia; a combined 9 MW wind energy and storage system on Prince Edward Island; and a 1 MW anaerobic digestion facility in British Columbia to generate electricity from food waste.

An effort to assess the performance of tidal current turbines in the Minas Passage of the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia will also receive a $10-20 million funding package.

For further information:
www.nrcan.gc.ca/

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