Canada recently unveiled nearly $30 million for a dozen projects across Canada aimed to accelerating the development and deployment of clean energy technologies nationwide.
The federal government says it is committed to “building and deploying the technologies that will power a clean, reliable, and competitive energy system.”
“Canada is scaling up clean energy while strengthening our electricity grid and responsibly growing our conventional energy industry,” says Tim Hodgson, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources. “We are investing to provide reliable, affordable and clean power across the country.”
The recent influx of funding through the Energy Innovation Program announced by Hodgson included over $600,000 for Simon Fraser University.
SFU will “accelerate the use of distributed energy resources like managed EV charging, smart thermostats, and battery storage” through the province.
The institution’s project will “identify barriers in rules and markets in British Columbia” and “work with partners across Canada to develop solutions that support better policy, planning, and investment decisions.”
The Energy Innovation Program advances clean energy technologies that aim to help Canada maintain a reliable and affordable energy system while transitioning to a low-carbon economy.
SFU was also recently awarded over $12M via two different awards from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation.
The capital will support two major projects: SHIFT and ATLAS. The former is focused on advancing clean hydrogen, while the other hopes to better examine the profundity of proton-proton collisions.
“SFU is delighted to receive CFI funding to strengthen our leadership in clean hydrogen innovation, and to lead fundamental research in particle physics,” stated vice-president, research and innovation Dugan O’Neil. “We are privileged to collaborate with exceptional research partners across Canada and around the world in areas of strategic importance for our country, while also addressing important challenges of our times.”
SFU is among Canada’s fastest-growing research-intensive universities, O’Neil notes, with sponsored research income increasing almost 150% over the past decade to nearly $300 million in 2025.
To support all of this intensive research, the institution recently partnered with Vancouver’s Moment Energy to identify opportunities to deploy advanced energy storage to boost power availability for SFU’s data centres and R&D facilities.
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