$2.4 Million for Decentralised Energy Innovation
Application Intake#2 will be announced December 2024!
Decentralised Energy Canada (DEC) and the City of Medicine Hat are proud partners in the Energy Innovation Challenge, a ground breaking three-year program aimed at empowering small and medium-sized Canadian enterprises (SMEs) to overcome commercialisation obstacles and bring their decentralised energy solutions to market.
Three main program activities:
Strengthening Distribution Grids
We are seeking innovative solutions that demonstrate the value and benefits of decentralised energy including:
grid reliability
grid resiliency
energy affordability
sustainability
These solutions must address one or more of the focus areas at the customer and/or system level.
Grid Decongestion at Customer Level - Innovations that can help relieve congestion at the customer/building level
Demand side management – Your solution offers a non-wires alternative and business model to help shave peak demand and reduce customer bills
Energy efficiency – Your solution offers whole-building scale energy efficiency solutions and
on-site technologies at the residential, commercial and industrial consumption levels (e.g., heat
pumps, heat recovery, district energy, building integrated energy storage, etc.)
Energy density – Your solution offers building scale technologies and systems that can help
reduce energy density and needs for the City and its’ customers
Grid Decongestion at System Level – Innovations that can help optimise current energy infrastructure on the distribution level
Predictive modelling – Your solution leverages predictive modelling to help manage growth
demand at the distribution system level
Energy storage – Your solution leverages energy storage and other technical innovations to
optimise the technical, economic and environmental performance of the City’s energy system
Energy aggregation – Your solution leverages energy aggregation solutions and systems (e.g.,
virtual power plants) and offers innovative solutions, business models and contracting solutions
System modelling – Your solution leverages dynamic system modelling to optimise distribution
systems in real time
If you believe your startup or innovation can successfully address or optimize one or more of these challenge areas for the City of Medicine Hat, we encourage you to submit your application to the Energy Innovation Challenge.
Application Intake #2: Watch for Announcements in December 2024
If you have questions regarding the Energy Innovation Challenge (EIC) please check out our Frequently Asked Questions section here.
Additional questions can be emailed to: eicapplications@deassociation.ca
