Deadline: 29-Sep-21
The Government of Canada has announced the Clean Fuels Fund – Building New Domestic Production Capacity to provide the private sector with cost-shared, conditionally repayable funding to build new, or retrofit or expand existing, clean fuel production facilities in Canada.
Support is also available for feasibility studies, basic engineering studies and detailed front-end engineering studies for new facilities, facility expansions or facility conversions.
Canada’s clean fuels industry must immediately, and significantly, increase its current capacity to play the critical role needed in the net-zero future.
To do this, it will be essential to overcome the barrier of the upfront capital cost that private sector investment faces in the buildout of new clean fuels production capacity.
Program Benefits
Funding the build-out of new production capacity will:
- grow the domestic production capacity for clean fuels including clean hydrogen, advanced biofuels, renewable natural gas, and sustainable aviation fuel, across Canada
- offer new opportunities for Canada’s energy sector in the transition to producing cleaner sources of energy
- support Canada’s efforts to reach net-zero by 2050
- position Canada globally to reap economic, environmental, and social benefits of the energy transition
Eligible Projects
- Capital clean fuel production projects that use fuel production technologies in advanced stages of technological readiness and that are designed for commercial deployment.
- Feasibility studies, basic engineering studies and detailed front-end engineering studies to assess the new build or expansion of low carbon fuel production facilities. In addition, feasibility studies to assess the techno-economic feasibility of blending hydrogen into natural gas systems.
Eligibility Criteria
Legal entities validly incorporated or registered in Canada including not-for-profit and for-profit organizations such as:
- electricity or gas utilities
- private sector companies
- industry associations
- research associations
- standards organizations
- Indigenous organizations and Indigenous communities
- Canadian academic institutions
- provincial, territorial, regional or municipal governments or their departments or agencies where applicable
For more information, visit https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/clean-fuels-fund-building-new-domestic-production-capacity/23726