Sustainable Development Technology Canada issues call for funding applications

August 30, 2015 |

In Canada, the SD Tech Fund and the SD Natural Gas Fund are now open for applications through October 14, 2015. On behalf of the Government of Canada, SDTC helps bring Canadian clean technologies closer to market, readying them for growth and export markets. The SDTC portfolio is currently comprised of 269 clean technology projects with a total value of $2.5 billion, of which over $1.8 billion is leveraged primarily from the private-sector.

Leah Lawrence, President and CEO, Sustainable Development Technology Canada, said, “Cleantech represents that double bottom line, bringing together environmental goals and economic activity in a way that generates jobs and opportunity across Canada.  And what an opportunity it represents for Canada: recent reports peg the Canadian cleantech market at $12 billion. We look forward to working with entrepreneurs and technology developers from all corners of the country to get their cleantech innovations closer to market.”

Through the SD Tech Fund, SDTC supports technologies that address the challenges of Clean Air, Soil, Water and Climate Change, including technology solutions focused on these technology priority areas, including:

Energy Efficiency for Industry and Communities:

•Efficient freight and heavy-duty vehicle transportation: Technologies related to next generation freight and heavy-duty vehicles with reduced carbon footprints, including EV powertrain technologies, vehicle light-weighting, advanced trains, heavy-duty vehicles and aircraft, or technologies related to EV and CNG/LNG infrastructure that will enable broad adoption.

• Industrial efficiency and productivity: Technologies that encourage resource efficiency in industrial processes.

Next Generation Technologies with Longer-term Benefits for Canada:

• Combustion-free primary energy conversion technologies: Technologies that convert primary energy sources to carbon-free energy carriers such as steam, electricity or hydrogen without combustion and with negligible emissions or waste production.

• Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security: Technologies that reduce the usage of water, increase yield and improve drought resistance of agricultural crops.

• Biodiversity Protection and Enhancement: Solutions which mitigate biodiversity loss resulting from industrial/human activity.

The SD Natural Gas Fund, a collaboration with the Canadian Gas Association, focuses on the following priority areas.

• Residential (small-scale affordable CHP units, ultra-efficient water heaters, technologies that improve the efficiency of residential heating and/or cooling).

• Commercial (technologies that improve the efficiency of heating systems, measurement and data management to better control natural gas consumption, natural gas cooling systems).

• Industrial (higher-efficiency industrial heating equipment, CO2 capture systems, less energy-intensive hydrogen production).

• Power generation (higher efficiency power generation, emissions control technologies, natural gas storage solutions for remote locations).

• Transportation (more efficient and lower emission natural gas engines, alternative natural gas engines, lower-cost solutions).

• Renewable natural gas (technologies that improve cleanup economics, cost-effective small-scale anaerobic digesters).

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