Grants and Contributions

Challenger Technical Service’s MCDIS project is designed to eliminate fugitive GHG emissions that occur on existing oil and gas wells. The system will offer a dramatic improvement in the success rate and lifetime of a gas migration repair by introducing new intervention equipment and methods. Two materials are injected separately into a leaking wellbore, where they react and form a permanent seal which blocks gas migration to surface. Challenger will deploy its technology with major Calgary based operators on existing wells across Alberta. The technology is projected to eliminate 35,102 tonnes of CO2e per year by the year 2030. Challenger has received funding from ERA along with assistance from PTAC and CanERIC to develop and commercialize the GHG reduction project.

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%.

L'objectif du projet est de commercialiser de nouveaux biocapteurs spécifiques aux souches capables de distinguer de faibles concentrations de bactéries pathogènes en temps quasi réel, de mettre en œuvre une méthodologie de fabrication évolutive pour les capteurs de détection rapide des pathogènes et de piloter les systèmes complets de détection des pathogènes avec 4 à 5 premiers adeptes.  La technologie des capteurs sera développée parallèlement à une plate-forme automatisée d'échantillonnage et de traitement capable de fonctionner de manière indépendante dans une usine de transformation alimentaire et de traitement des eaux. À l'issue du projet, le système automatisé Kraken sera capable de prélever, d'analyser, de stocker, de transmettre des données et de détecter des bactéries pathogènes à de faibles concentrations, le tout en temps réel et avec une intervention humaine minime, voire inexistante. La technologie d'Ecoli Sense permettra d'éviter les rappels d'aliments liés à des pathogènes tout au long de la chaîne d'approvisionnement en identifiant la contamination par des pathogènes au cours de la transformation des aliments et en disposant d'informations sur la qualité des aliments en temps réel. Ecoli Sense prévoit de commercialiser sa technologie dans le secteur de la transformation des protéines et des légumes au Canada et dans le monde à partir de 2022. Les avantages environnementaux cumulatifs, au Canada seulement, sur une période de 10 ans, sont estimés à une réduction des émissions de GES de plus de 22 mégatonnes de CO2e, à des économies d'eau de plus de 6 milliards de m3, à un évitement de la mise en décharge de plus de 330 kilotonnes et à une réduction de l'utilisation des terres agricoles de plus de 10 millions d'hectares.

Ecopia leverages AI to convert high resolution images of the earth into HD vector maps. This digital representation of the real world offers unique insight for decision-making at-scale.

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.

RECIRCUIT has developed and patented an innovative, efficient and economically viable process for recycling critical and strategic materials (CSMs) from printed circuit boards (PCBs). Thanks to pilot plant development, this process will be refined and optimized. By tapping into the urban mine, the construction here in Montreal of the first 5000 Tm/year commercial plant will aim to recover the PCI discarded and reclaimed by existing networks to revalue the SCMs using a low-GHG hydrometallurgical process.Thanks to SDTC, RECIRCUIT will eventually commercialize its process to show that, with its vision, it is possible to bring as much of the SCM recovered from PCI into the circular economy as possible, so that it can be reintroduced into the production chain worldwide.Thanks to a very high extraction efficiency rate (95%), RECIRCUIT is pioneering the use of hydrometallurgy to recycle low- and medium-grade PCI in order to extract SCMs. This innovative process counteracts the landfilling or export to certain developing countries of this electronic waste, while preserving the environment and the health of workers and citizens alike.

With its innovative insect-derived solution, Entosystem puts nature at nature's service to reduce the carbon footprint of conventional agriculture. In response to a broken food system, Entosystem will demonstrate its process in an efficient and rapid circular economy within its commercial plant, gradually increasing the transformation of imposing quantities of organic matter into a high-quality protein source and organic fertilizer.

EMS’s Crop Sense technology enables crop producers to track water, fertilizer and carbon across the broad acres of farmland that make up the world’s breadbaskets. The Crop Sense is a revolutionary soil sensor that agronomists and farmers can use where they wish, and for as long as they wish to answer the questions that keep them up at night. EMS’s decision support system links seamless with today’s farm management systems enabling producers to optimize food production while minimizing greenhouse gas emission and fertilizer runoff. In partnership with SDTC, EMS is building tomorrows soil sensors that will form a key component of the sustainable agriculture technology stack needed to reduce greenhouse gasses from production, while maintaining farm profitability and production capacity.