Grants and Contributions

Adaptis is a software solution for automating and optimizing building adaption project  (renovation, retrofitting, adaptive reuse, etc.) and material reuse planning. It enables existing building owners, designers, and engineers to make informed decisions to decarbonize their existing buildings and lower costs. Our platform analyzes existing building conditions, generates automated material salvage value and deconstruction planning, adaptation feasibility design options, and optimizes environmental and economic performance decision-making.

AERIUM Analytics is a Calgary-based clean technology company that uses data automation and analytics to provide geospatial intelligence, inspection, and wildlife management services utilizing its proprietary drone based technologies.
AERIUM is focused on three main product lines: Foreign Object Debris Detection (FOD);Runway Marking Analysis; and RoBird Wildlife Management; converge to provide airport and aviation clients more effective, safe, and environmentally friendly solutions. AERIUM specializes in solutions for highly regulated industries like aviation, energy and forestry.

Aurora Hydrogen is developing a technology that uses efficient microwave energy to heat natural gas in the absence of oxygen and water (pyrolysis) to produce hydrogen and solid carbon while avoiding the generation of CO2. The technology is highly scalable and modular, units can be installed anywhere there is natural gas and electricity, and the process consumes no water. Hydrogen production using Aurora's technology has the potential to reduce global CO2 emissions by over 900 million tonnes per year.

BioAlert Solutions provides facility owners and managers with a reliable, effective and sustainable solution to the threat of Legionella contamination in their cooling towers and other hot water systems. The company has developed an automated industrial device for detecting legionella in water. This enables continuous monitoring of bacteria levels, which in turn enables facility owners and managers to be proactive in the treatment of their water systems, and to have unrivalled peace of mind in the face of the threat posed by a Legionella epidemic.

Thanks to our technology, our customers are able to limit water discharges linked to excessively high levels of legionella, and they can administer adequate quantities of chemicals in their water, enabling them to make substantial savings and limit their environmental impact.

The project undertaken with SDTC enables the large-scale deployment of our technology, which supports our scientific approach, as we will have access to a quantity and quality of data that we would not otherwise have been able to obtain. This partnership gives us the opportunity to improve our offering and document the economic and environmental impact of our solution.

AdvEn has developed a proprietary recipe and production process for high-performance activated carbon trademarked “ASAC” (AdvEn Super Activated Carbon). It has record-breaking performance characteristics coupled with competitive cost efficiency, compared to current leading commercial products. It has many applications, the immediate of which is to build energy storage device such as supercapacitors (SCs). In 2011, Elon Musk predicted that “SCs, not batteries, would be the breakthrough for EVs (Electric Vehicles)”.
Our pilot plant has been operational for 4 years, producing ASAC at an equivalent annual capacity of 5 to 10 tons, from asphaltenes and refinery residues (LC Finer Bottom – by-products from bitumen’s partial upgrading), agricultural wastes, plastic wastes and even raw bitumen. In the current project, AdvEn seeks government support to build its first commercial demo plant with a capacity of 300 tons/year.
The ASAC technology is the most sustainable method to produce high end AC. It has a greatly reduced GHG footprint and has much lower overall energy intensity. Specifically the benefits results from: (1) no direct CO2 emission; (2) reduced production temperatures and elimination of highly hazardous strong acids/base that are typically used in all other AC manufacturing processes today; (3) reduced pollutant generation and GHG emission by capturing and utilizing hydrocarbon by-products/residues, scrubbing residual emissions and recycling process chemicals and water.

Our novel technology platform unlocks new advances in strength and durability for cement replacements. By permanently storing CO2 in industrial byproducts and natural materials—from coal plants, glass manufacturing, mine sites, and more—we are improving performance and lower emissions. We work directly with cement and concrete producers to utilize the CO2 they’re already capturing onsite for our processes. We also reduce second-order CO2 emissions by removing the need to import expensive SCM feedstocks from overseas and we use local wastes instead, such as steel slag. Carbon Upcycling’s SCMs decrease the amount of cement used in the production of concrete by up to 20%.

Specifically, in this project we will deploy our 50 tonne per day reactor with the goal to scale up to a 200 tonne per day reactor which utilizes waste steel slag, and CO2 emissions for permanent storage. This creates a stronger and more durable supplementary cementitious material (SCM). SDTC’s support of this project will expedite Canada's cement and concrete industry on reaching their goal of being net-zero by 2050. With the support of SDTC we are well on our way to deploying at all 16 concrete plants in Canada which would result in a 39.4MT CO2e savings. The support of SDTC means a healthier and cleaner environment for all Canadians.

Founded in 2019, CRT is a Pending B Corp, Canadian clean tech startup with a mission to enable infinite reuse of the world’s rubber. Globally, 20 million tonnes of rubber is used annually to make new tires, and the majority is ultimately landfilled or used in low grade applications at the end of their life. CRT’s proprietary process converts end-of-life industrial tires into high quality natural rubber reclaim that can be substituted for natural virgin rubber. A truly circular Tire-to-Tire Solution. Our high quality product, clean process, global supply chain network, and fully traceable solution provides tire manufacturers with a sustainable alternative to virgin rubber at stable lower cost levels with a significantly lower carbon footprint.   In 2023, CRT is constructing its first commercial facility in Alberta whilst continuing to innovate and scale its global operations to achieve significant growth.

Clir Renewables’ data and analytics software provides intelligence on performance and risk to investors in utility-scale wind and solar projects, improving returns and encouraging further investment in clean energy. The company's wind platform is already an established leader and is used by owners on more than 20 GW of wind farms across four continents. With the rapid development of large-scale solar projects, and the limited experience in the workforce, Clir’s enhanced solar platform will give investors and asset management teams the insights and tools they need to optimize solar project returns.

Perfluorinated and polyfluorinated alkyls, better known by their acronym “PFAS”, have always been used and released into the environment, mainly through the use of fire-fighting foams. Worldwide, the potential effects of PFAS on humans and the environment, and their ability to migrate, have given rise to considerable concern. Studies have already shown their potential harmful effects on humans. Some PFAS (PFOA and PFOS) are now regulated in several countries around the world. More standards are to come, as governments work on tighter criteria that will affect more compounds.
At present, there is no economically viable technology with minimal environmental impact to address this issue.
An electro-oxidation process has been developed by E2Metrix to degrade persistent refractory contaminants (known as “emerging contaminants”), including PFAS. Electro-oxidation with ECOTHOR-AOP uses highly conductive, chemically inert electrodes to effectively destroy these contaminants. The system is powered by solar energy. The system is controlled remotely and parameters are adjusted automatically using the integrated E2net platform (IOT).
E2metrix offers a new, efficient turnkey approach that will cut costs by 90-95%.

Enedym is a Canadian company at the cutting edge of electric motors and controls. Its proprietary technology will revolutionize the deployment of electric motors in clean energy production, transportation and industrial drives. The company’s patented Switched Reluctance Motor (SRM) technology offers robust, highly reliable and low-cost solutions to many sectors from clean energy production, to transportation, to industrial applications. SRMs do not use permanent magnets, which are sensitive to operating temperature and require rare earth materials with their associated challenges in global supply chains.
The technology will be demonstrated first in wind energy applications, through a partnership with windmill operators, manufacturers and installers. It will validate its robustness and reliability in the control of the wind pitch turbine blades, considered a harsh environment and where operational reliability is critical. The increased reliability of wind turbines significantly cuts GHG emissions by displacing fossil fuel generated electricity with clean energy from existing and future installations. The potential use of these motors in other sectors is enormous offering substantial climate change benefits.