Canadian innovation incubator launches new gas challenge
NGIF Industry Grants, a division of NGIF Capital, said May 27 it was launching a new C$5.5mn (US$4.6mn) funding competition to accelerate clean technology solutions across the natural gas value chain.
The NGIF Innovation Challenge, NGIF’s 7th such funding competition, invites start-ups and small and medium enterprises with innovative solutions to key challenges facing the production, transmission, distribution and end-use of natural gas. On offer are grants of up to C$500,000 per project, representing as much as 33% of a project’s eligible expenses.
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“Our largest innovation challenge to date aims to harness ideas to develop and scale technologically and economically impactful solutions in the natural gas sector,” NGIF Capital CEO John Adams said. “Developing low-emission and resilient technology is key to enhancing our sector’s leading environmental performance.”
Applications will be accepted until July 8 for innovations in seven strategic focus areas: renewable natural gas (RNG), hydrogen, carbon capture utilisation and sequestration (CCUS), heat pumps and micro-combined heat and power (micro-CHP), transportation, waste heat utilisation and water management.
Under NGIF Capital’s trusted partners model, which brings together the federal government and cleantech support agencies in Alberta, BC, Saskatchewan and Ontario, innovation challenge applicants can apply for funding through a harmonised process, Adams said.
“NGIF’s trusted partnership model has resulted in a strong portfolio of projects with federal, provincial and industry support,” he said. “Working together with our trusted partners accelerates innovation faster to commercialisation.”
More information, including application documents and portals, can be accessed at the innovation challenge website.