Grants and Contributions

Next Hydrogen is a developer and provider of water electrolysers for low cost, large-scale green hydrogen production. The company’s unique patented design enables the operational flexibility required to cost effectively utilize renewable energy sources. Next Hydrogen is a Mississauga-based company working to further scale up its product for further significant cost reduction.

Niricson is developing a proprietary cloud-based damage assessment platform-AUTOSPEX to help asset owners inspect and manage their assets (Dams, Bridges, Nuclear Power Plants etc.) faster, cost-effectively, accurately, and safely.

With the proposed project, Niricson plans to automate the big data processing from 50% to over 90%. This will allow more asset owners to collect and process their assets data frequently allowing building predictive maintenance models, extending the service life of their assets, and hence, reducing the CO2 emissions significantly.

Development of a coating process for purified spherical graphite efficient, competitive and part of an integrated carbon neutral framework, through the implementation of a demonstration plant on a semi-commercial scale with innovative characteristics and following an analysis program and monitoring at the highest international level.

Omniply Technologies Inc. redefines the manufacturing of flexible electronics. From Flexible OLED Displays, Wearable Devices, Thin Film Sensors, and more, Omniply’s patented technology enables an ultra low peel force release process.
Omniply offers high efficiency and can scale to large format production lines. OmniCoat©, OmniClear©, and OmniPeel© bring industry leading cost competitive solutions to the market, while offering the advantage of having no impact on the current manufacturing infrastructure of your production lines.

Based on Photonics Integrated Circuits (PIC) technology, OSCP is developing the next generation of Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) for Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) navigation application. Unlike MEMS-based IMUs, OSCP’s IMU can reliably navigate a vehicle with Centimeter level of position accuracy even in the absence of GNSS for several minutes. OSCP’s IMUs are also both dramatically higher-performance and much less sensitive to environmental effects such as Thermal Drift, Vibration Induced Noise, and EMI.
As compared to the high end IMUs such as Fiber-Optics Gyroscope (FOG)-based, OSCP’s IMU not only delivers the same performance but in a compact, low power, low-cost footprint, thanks to its on-chip integrated CMOS compatible technology. As a +30 years old technology, FOGs are specifically designed for Aerospace application and as a result they are not scalable and therefore super expensive for AVs applications. By integrating all optical components on the same chip, OSCP is delivering a scalable, revolutionary IMU with extraordinary performance at a low cost for AVs market.
Addressing $45B total available market by 2032, and with an order of magnitude less power consumption than FOGs, OSCP's IMUs contributes to hundreds of kilotonnes of CO2 reduction over the next 10 years.

Peak Power is a Toronto-based climate tech company that enables contributors to climate change to be a part of the solution. Peak designs and delivers AI-powered software that transforms buildings from static energy consumers into dynamic, revenue-generating assets. Their technology optimizes commercial buildings through the intelligent management of energy use, energy storage, and EV grid integration.

Peak Power is building a distributed energy resource aggregation (DERA), that has the potential to be a catalyst for deep decarbonization within the buildings, energy, and transportation sectors. The DERA will unlock the trapped latent flexibility capacity and environmental potential in these demand-side resources. The DERA aims to be the foundation of smarter and cleaner cities across North America and globally.

pH7 has created an innovative process for extracting and refining of critical metals that will enable the transition to renewable energy in an environmentally and economically sustainable way.

pH7 closed loop process applies organic, inorganic, and electro chemistries to reduce the environmental impact of the mining and mineral processes. This disruptive process enables efficient metal extraction from low grade resources or difficult substrates which are uneconomical or infeasible by current pyro or hydro metallurgy approaches.

This project will grow the industry's capacity to extract PGM from end-of-life materials to meet the growing demands of the green, circular and hydrogen economies.

Driven by the energy efficiency goals of commercial kitchens everywhere, Intellinox is the mastermind behind ECOAZUR, the industry’s next-generation intelligent kitchen ventilation system.

Polar Sapphire produit de l'aluminium de haute pureté utilisé dans la fabrication de batteries lithium-ion pour les revêtements critiques qui prolongent la durée de vie, la sécurité et la performance des batteries de la prochaine génération.  Ce projet de démonstration permettra de créer une installation de production d'alumine de haute pureté au Canada, contribuant ainsi à l'établissement d'un domaine croissant de composants essentiels pour la production nationale de véhicules électriques et d'énergies renouvelables.

Cement is a critical infrastructure material that is both energy and carbon intensive to produce.  Unlike fossil fuels, cement cannot be easily phased out and currently accounts for approximately 5-7% of all GHG emissions. Additionally, most of the glass collected for recycling ends up in landfills, with the highest volume use of both glass and cement being in major cities.

PLAN’s project, “PozGlassTM 100G: a waste glass to cement replacement product with CO2 sequestration” will demonstrate a pilot scale, continuous manufacturing process, using patent-pending technology and Canadian waste glass feedstock, that can be duplicated in major cities across Canada and the globe. The production process uses waste glass diverted from landfill and sequesters existing plant emissions, to create a high value product that:

-mitigates the emissions of cement,
-provides superior structural capabilities compared to competitors,
-promotes a sustainable, circular economy, and
-eliminates overseas or out of province sourcing due to existing shortage, reducing fuel usage and lowering GHGs.