Grants and Contributions

eCAMION envisions Grid 3.0:the Intergrid, an advanced power network of interconnected Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) controlled through a virtual network using LTE+/5G technology. This intelligent grid will enable automation, advanced network management, diagnosis, and proactive maintenance for electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure. Leveraging artificial intelligence (AI), Grid 3.0 will function as a self-healing infrastructure, efficiently distributing energy within the power network to offset peak power demand.

To develop this innovative grid, eCAMION focuses on three key areas: ultra-efficient modular converters for high power density, optimized thermal management for electronics (Power Converter and Lithium-ion cells), and the utilization of 5G/LTE+ networks and AI for seamless control and decision-making. Grid 3.0 aims to address challenges hindering the mass adoption of EVs, such as inadequate charging infrastructure and grid resiliency. By transforming the EV charging landscape, eCAMION's Grid 3.0 will pave the way for a more sustainable and decarbonized future in transportation.

Lithium-Ion Batteries (LiB) dominate the electric vehicle (EV) market and require high purity graphite to function. As demand for EVs increases, a supply gap in graphite is projected to be 3 million tonnes by 2029. With SDTC’s support, Green Graphite Technologies (GGT) will commercialize the most cost effective and environmentally friendly sustainable process to transform mined natural flake graphite into high purity LiB-grade graphite. This industrial scale demo plant will be used to engineer standard modular technology packages for rapid commercial roll-out.
As a technology provider, GGT will license its patent pending GraphPureTM technology to all NFG miners. With 10 modules expected to be in operation within 5 years of commercialization the impact on CO2e reduction is 2.1M tpa. GGT’s multidisciplinary team of industry experts are confident that GraphPureTM can be demonstrated at an industrial scale in less than 5 years for the benefit of multiple Canadian graphite miners.

Headquartered in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada, Visual Defence is a market leader in the implementation of AI and smart cameras for optimizing municipal operations. Developed in partnership with more than 150 cities, Visual Defence’s ROVER AI in-vehicle cameras help cities operate in a sustainable manner, allowing cities to share resources, extend the life of infrastructure, provide public services effectively, keep the roads well maintained and traffic moving, and accomplish more with existing staff levels. Under this project, with the support of SDTC, Visual Defence will work together with Canadian cities representing over one million Canadians to accomplish even more in a smart and sustainable manner.

Provision is software to streamline food safety and QA. It enables clients to build simple digital templates that expedite record-keeping, with automatic schedules, rules, and alerts that increase compliance. All process documentation is centralized in one hub with automatic history and customizable reporting. This makes it faster to complete audits, and easier to analyze process data. Since being founded in 2018, Provision has been adopted for over half the refrigerated food shipped in Canada, and it's now quickly growing across the U.S.

Cyclic Materials has developed a sustainable and scalable recycling technology that recovers rare earth magnets and circulates their valuable critical materials back into the economy, providing a domestic source to the fragile supply chain of these critical minerals. Cyclic Materials is helping the world transition to a more environmentally responsible future by helping businesses recycle, provide the market with a secure and regional supply of critical metals, and do so in an ethical, economic, and sustainable way.

Clear Blue Technologies has built the world’s first Smart Off-Grid technology to delivery ultra-reliable, 100% off-grid, solar power for cell phone towers, Satellite Wi-fi systems, and Smart City infrastructures. The company’s Pico-Grid and Nano-Grid systems coupled with its Cloud remote management platform uses predictive data analytics to install and operate systems in 37 countries around the world. Thru its patented weather and energy forecasting, its energy management capabilities and its troubleshooting and remediation tools, Clear Blue’s Smart Off-Grid technology allows customers to ‘cut the cord’ and ditch the gas generator by moving to solar energy systems.

Ecosystem Informatics Inc. (ESI) fills the critical need around the world for hyper-local emissions and pollution data insights with its smart mobile-sensor units that can be mounted on vehicles. The accuracy of ESI’s technology is comparable to that of lab grade equipment, thanks for ESI’s proprietary Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms.

EMS’s technology addresses the needs of the resource extraction industry by leveraging unique features of soils, to create biogenic minerals to catalyze hydrocarbon destruction. Solar powered and local water sources, allow EMS technology to provide cost-effective, carbon efficient, solutions for industry’s looking to improve their environmental performance. Each EMS technology ecosystem deployed saves 30,000 t of soil, 1,000 kt CO2-equivalents emitted and removes over 300 t of spilled hydrocarbons from the environment.

EMS has partnered with SDTC, to deploy, validate and scale EMS-technology such that EMS’s technology can be used across the world. The SDTC sponsored project will transform EMS technology to a data-based, internet-of-things solution to today’s environmental challenges. In so doing, EMS’s technology will transform how organizations, large and small, manage their environmental liability.

UNICEF estimates that two billion people live in countries where water supply is inadequate and that half the world’s population could be facing water scarcity by 2050. The world increasingly needs affordable, sustainable drinking water supplies at large volumes and is turning to conventional desalination, which is expensive, dirty, and unsustainable. Almost half the cost of traditional desalination pays for fuel, creating a carbon footprint that is on average 2.0 kg CO2e/m3 of water produced.

While the desalination industry uses seawater as an input, it does not take advantage of the immense energy in ocean waves proximal to the input resource. Using wave energy instead of fossil fuels to power desalination plants presents tremendous opportunities to reduce GHG emissions.

The project, led by Oneka Technologies, aims to scale up its wave-powered desalination buoys to utility-scale units, called “Glaciers”. The project will allow Oneka and its partners to deploy their redesigned hull & structure, design and deploy seabed anchoring approaches adapted to Glacier class buoys and develop operational and maintenance innovations at scale while serving as a platform to gather real-time operational data and market the technology to utility-scale users. The project will also allow the team to cost-engineer Glacier for competitiveness with the conventional desalination industry at any scale, consuming zero fossil fuels, producing zero operational emissions and using no land.

The adoption of electric transportation in Canada as a sustainable alternative is facing many barriers including range anxiety in varying climate conditions, safety, lifetime, and fast charging which are common in different electric vehicle (EV) market segments, including commercial (light/heavy), passenger and aerial/marine vehicles. These challenges are mainly related to Li-ion battery limitations in which temperature is one of the dominant operative variables. The goal of the project E-Motiv is to complete the development of an innovative battery module including a novel battery thermal management system and a pilot manufacturing line to produce it. The project consortium is formed by the Calogy Solutions team, BRP, and Westward Industries. The partnership of an innovative start-up with expertise in the Li-ion battery technology and thermal management with a recreational vehicle manufacturer and a commercial light EV manufacturer ensures the success of the next phase of the project by reducing technological/manufacturing risks for the partners. Both partners will act as customers and user-validator of the TGP (for BRP) and battery pack (Westward Industries).