Canada extends funding to clean energy projects
SUMMARY
Several projects using natural gas to produce hydrogen will receive support.
By Dale LunanAhead of the annual Energy and Mines Ministers’ Conference in Calgary, the Canadian government on July 3 announced C$11mn (US$8mn) in funding to support nine energy technology projects, most of them in Alberta.
Small modular reactor research will receive C$2.5mn, while C$8.5mn will go towards innovation in Canada’s clean hydrogen sector.
Included in the funding is C$3mn to Aurora Hydrogen, which is developing technology to use microwave energy for methane pyrolysis to create hydrogen and solid carbon from natural gas and C$1mn to Innova Hydrogen for zero-carbon hydrogen production via catalytic methane pyrolysis.
Quantiam Technologies will also receive C$1mn to support its technology to produce carbon-negative methanol and e-fuels from captured CO2 and green hydrogen.
ATCO Gas and Pipelines will receive C$1.3mn to advance its project, with partner Qualico, to develop a hydrogen community near Edmonton, and nearly C$509,000 to develop its Fort Saskatchewan Operating Centre into North America’s first 100% hydrogen-heated building and as a demonstration site for end-user heating technologies using pure and blended hydrogen with natural gas.
And New Wave Hydrogen will receive C$415,000 to accelerate the development of its technology that uses shock wave heating technology for methane thermal cracking.
