Category: News

  • Alberta joins world leaders to accelerate CCUS technology development; ERA announces almost $10 million in funding

    Today, the Government of Alberta announced up to $750 million from the Technology Innovation and Emissions Reduction (TIER) fund and other public funding for programs that will reduce emissions, boost the economy, and get Albertans back to work. This investment will be more than doubled by additional dollars from industry and other sectors, leading to more…

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  • $58 million announced for natural gas innovations worth $155 million

    Leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning to better measure and locate methane emissions, and prototyping new approaches to convert natural gas to hydrogen, are two of 20 technology innovations that will receive funding from the Government of Alberta through Emissions Reduction Alberta (ERA). Alberta’s Minister of Environment and Parks, Jason Nixon, and Associate Minister of…

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  • ERA and others asked to identify opportunities for future energy efficiency work in Alberta

    The Government of Alberta announced the winding down of Energy Efficiency Alberta (EEA). ERA is working with the Province and EEA on a plan that would see it assume responsibility for new program outcomes targeting industrial and commercial entities, along with associated EEA staff and resources. Program outcomes targeting residential municipalities and other institutional facilities…

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  • $40 million for food, farming, and forestry innovation

    Today, Government of Alberta’s Minister of Environment and Parks, Jason Nixon, announced Emissions Reduction Alberta’s (ERA) $40 million Food, Farming, and Forestry Challenge. This funding opportunity will accelerate technology innovation in support of long-term competitiveness and stimulate growth in the critically important agriculture, agri-food, and forestry sectors. It provides near-term capital to innovators, while also…

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  • ERA injects up to $10 million to improve cash flow for projects

    To help navigate the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the economic challenges facing Alberta, ERA is making up to $10 million available in the next quarter to speed up cash flow and support the liquidity of our active projects. ERA is temporarily adjusting our payment holdback policy to a lower percentage held until project…

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  • New $50 million funding opportunity targets natural gas innovation

    Emissions Reduction Alberta’s (ERA) new $50 million Natural Gas Challenge will unlock innovation across Alberta’s natural gas value chain, from production to market and all points in between. It supports clean technology projects that reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and improve the competitiveness of the natural gas industry. In 2018, Alberta produced almost 70 per…

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  • Two carbon converting technologies share $10 million in ERA’s Grand Challenge

    Two successful projects have emerged from Round 3 of ERA’s five-year funding competition, Grand Challenge: Innovative Carbon Uses. ERA is awarding $5 million to Mangrove Water Technologies and $5 million to CarbonCure Technologies to support commercialization of their technologies in Alberta. ERA launched the $35-million Grand Challenge in 2013 to find the world’s most innovative…

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  • $12.1 million announced for projects worth over a half billion dollars

    ERA’s new Partnership Intake Program helps leverage funding and streamline support for innovators EDMONTON, AB – A $285 million, first-of-its-kind, wheat-based, biofuels facility is being developed by Carbon Clean Energy Inc. The project aims to create low carbon intensity ethanol in response to Alberta’s new renewable fuel standards. Known as Project Wheatland, the state-of-the-art plant…

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  • $100 million investment in clean technology projects

    $600 million total project value will deliver 2.5 million tonnes of CO2e reductions EDMONTON, AB – An innovative clean technology to transition Alberta’s diesel-powered transit buses to electric is getting a boost in funding from Emissions Reduction Alberta (ERA). eCAMION’s first-of-kind charging system is expected to reduce e-bus impact on the electrical grid and lower…

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  • $70.2 million announced to help Alberta’s industries reduce greenhouse gas emissions and remain globally competitive

    Calgary, AB – Using low carbon fuels to make cement and recovering heat from a refinery to generate electricity are just two examples of promising new technologies that will get a funding boost as a direct result of the carbon levy paid by industry. Eleven projects worth a combined value of $267 million will receive…

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