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NGIF Industry Grants, in collaboration with the International Gas Union, has launched a $10 million global clean technology challenge.

The challenge is a call for funds for energy startups from around the world with clean technology solutions to come to Canada to access grants, technology validation for product market fit and future energy customers.

The Global Cleantech Challenge will allow the NGIF Industry Grants to provide funding to its 14 participating energy companies to support the development and demonstration of new clean technologies around the world. Each demonstration project undertaken in Canada is eligible to receive up to CAD 1 million, which represents up to 50 % of a project's eligible expenses.

NGIF Industry Grants accept applications from small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and global start-ups proposing solutions that can create value and mitigate environmental impacts in the production, transportation, distribution and end use of natural gas in Canada.

Main areas of intervention

• The objective of this funding competition, which focuses on gaseous energy production (upstream), transmission (midstream), distribution and end-use applications (downstream), is to advance advanced clean technologies.
  • Responsibly sourced natural gas
    • Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS)
    • Methane mitigation
    • Energy efficiency
    • Emissions monitoring
    • Use of residual heat
    • Water management
  • Alternative gases
    • Hydrogen
    • Renewable natural gas
  • Natural gas applications
    • Heat and electricity production
    • Natural gas heat pumps
    • Value-added products
    • Fuel change
    • Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)
    • Transport

Information on financing

• The NGIF IG is offering up to $10.0 million (CAD) in grants available for this funding competition to support natural gas production (upstream sector), transmission (midstream sector) and distribution and end-use applications (downstream sector) in Canada. Eligible projects can apply for up to 1,000,000 $ (CAD) per project, which represents 50 % of the total project cost. Final approval of funding is subject to the discretion of the NGIF IG and the availability of funds.

Location of the project

• Approved projects must be demonstrated in Canada. Projects that are directed towards upstream operations must be demonstrated at a site owned by one of the following IG NFIM industry participants:
  • Birchcliff Energy Limited
  • Canadian Natural Resources
  • Cutbank Dawson Gas Resources Limited (a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Corporation)
  • Embedded perpetual energy
  • PETRONAS Energy Canada Limited
  • Tidewater Midstream and Infrastructure Limited
  • Shell Canada Limited
  • Tourmaline Oil Corporation

Eligibility criteria

• The competition is open to Canadian and international small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), including technology development startups.
• New technologies that improve the environmental and economic performance of the gas energy industry.
• Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 6 or higher technologies. If TRL 6 is imminent, the latest TRL 5 technologies will be considered.
• Canadian and international small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that are not subsidiaries and independent technology development companies with fewer than 500 employees.
• Canadian and international technology development start-ups that are independent, non-subsidiary technology development companies that employ fewer than 100 employees, generate less than C$25 million in annual revenues and focus on the development and scale-up of pre-commercial technologies.

Leveraging trusted partners for funding

• NGIF IG has working relationships with other federal and provincial funding agencies across Canada. In some cases, NGIF IG may have the opportunity to share applicants' proposals with trusted partners and explore opportunities to leverage funding available from these organizations. NGIF IG has a "trusted partnership" with the following organizations:
  • Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
  • Emissions Reduction Alberta (ERA)
  • Alberta innovates (AI)
  • Province of British Columbia ICE Innovative Clean Energy Fund (ICE Fund)
  • Geoscience BC
  • Innovation Saskatchewan
  • Ontario Innovation Centre (OIC)

For more information, please visit the Global Cleantech Challenge .