First 2024 Call for Innovation Funding Recipients
Summary
These non-dilutive investments are being made through CICEs first 2024 call for innovation, which attracted close to 200 applications from across the province.Brokkr Mineral Resources Corporation is pioneering a first-of-its-kind, nature-based (bio)hydrometallurgical process for clean, low carbon extraction and purification of battery-grade nickel and cobalt. Telescope Innovations Corp. will leverage CICE funding to enable construction of a continuously operating lab-scale pilot for converting crude lithium chloride brines into battery-grade lithium carbonate, utilizing their carbon-negative and low-cost process, ReCRFT.Arca Climate Technologies Inc. a leader in carbon mineralization technology and a XPRIZE finalist, leverages historical mine waste to remove CO2 safely and permanently. CICEs funding will deploy Hydrons technology at the Wastewater Treatment Plant in Prince George, lowering emissions by upgrading biogas into renewable natural gas instead of flaring it.Salish Environmental Group is developing a co-generation technology that utilizes construction, demolition, and forestry wood waste to produce heat and electricity to power greenhouses to help create year-round food security, turning a previously underutilized bioresource into an emissions reducing fuel.pH7 Technologies is commercializing an electrolyzer enabled extraction process to get more copper out of low grade ores to keep up with growing market demand, while also producing clean hydrogen to lower mine emissions.HPDI Technology is advancing a project, through a new joint venture between Westport Fuel Systems and Volvo Group, that aims to nearly double the range of hydrogen-HPDI equipped heavy duty trucks.With 13 companies featured on the 2024 Global Cleantech 100 list, Canada is already leading as an innovation nation. CICE is proud to support the growth of these exceptional companies by validating actionable decarbonization pathways, unlocking access to capital, and accelerating the development and adoption of essential net-zero technologies. Together with our climate-first community of innovators, industry leaders, academia, government, and Indigenous partners, we advance future pathways to net-zero leveraging British Columbias clean energy advantages to attract investment, create good jobs and build sustainable economic prosperity for decades to come.
Funding
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