Grants and Contributions

2S Water is developing a sensor system to ensure safe drinking water. Our system will scan the output of water treatment facilities for 105 contaminants identified in federal water guidelines, and provide reports and near real-time data to operators on demand via web-enabled technologies, no matter what the operator’s skill level. Our service will be fully automated and only require annual maintenance. Over the first five years of deployment, the impact of launching this new technology will be the reduction of 13,334 tonnes of CO2e, 349,778,500 m3 of water, 19,265 tonnes of chemicals, and 211,363,645 m3 of tailings water in the first five years of deployment, which represents 117 treatment facilities in Canada and 1118 worldwide, totalling 1235 deployment.

2S Water will help communities protect their water quality by letting operators know immediately when the quality of their water changes or a contaminant intrusion occurs. This will enable communities to better protect the health of their citizens, and improve the environment by allowing their operators to use more precise amounts of chemicals in their water treatment at lower cost.

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. One unit replaces 10 of the competitor’s offering a paradigm shift in environmental monitoring and management. ESI’s technology provides cities and industries much needed insights on air quality for informed decision making thus optimizing their operational efficiency, managing their carbon footprint, and achieving their sustainability objectives.

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).

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.

Most cities generate more organic waste than they can process, leaving it to rot in landfills and generate greenhouse gases. Anaconda’s technology offers an affordable and sustainable organic waste infrastructure solution that takes food waste and converts it to organic fertilizer - all in under 10 days. Plus, our process is low odor so organic waste can be processed close to its source.

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.

Axine Water Technologies is developing a next generation electrochemical oxidation system for on-site treatment of toxic, non-biodegradable pharmaceutical pollutants in manufacturing wastewater to drive scale-up and growth in international markets. This new system will combine advances in material science and hardware design with digital automation, data analytics and machine learning to provide a step change improvement in efficiency, performance, verification, automation and cost reduction.