Deadline: 22-Sep-21
The Government of Canada is pleased to announce Energy Innovation Program that aims to support Front-End Engineering and Design (FEED) studies for CCUS projects that have the potential to significantly mitigate emissions.
This is the first call for CCUS project proposals by the Office of Energy Research and Development (OERD) with a focus on Front-End Engineering Design studies.
These projects will increase the knowledge base for applying CCUS technologies to different types of facilities in Canada.
A critical and costly step in this process is completing a FEED study. Performing a FEED study helps reduce the technical and commercial risk of a project to the point where an investment decision can be made to proceed with construction. It also provides an opportunity to evaluate and benchmark near commercial technologies helping them to come to market.
Objectives
- The pace of innovation in the natural resource sectors remains significantly short of what is needed to meet shared climate change objectives.
- The existing suite of clean technologies is neither sufficiently developed nor adequately de-risked to enable mass-market deployment.
- Proposed investments will build on Canada’s strengths and competitive advantage, supporting next generation technologies that target the country’s natural resource sector profiles and needs, support Canadian prosperity, jobs and competitiveness, and help deliver on Mission Innovation objectives, while reducing future GHG emissions and addressing other environmental goals.
- Activities will seek to fill critical gaps in the natural resource sectors innovation chain by providing funding for research, development (R&D), demonstration, including up to first commercial installations, and related scientific activities (RSA) – collectively, RD&D projects – where market failures are keeping new Canadian discoveries and technologies from being developed and commercialized domestically and internationally.
- Activities are expected to contribute to new research, development, demonstration projects and associated codes and standards, and new knowledge products, including studies and analyses, and to support the Government of Canada’s commitments to reduce Canada’s total greenhouse gas (GHG) by 30% from 2005 levels by 2030.
Funding Information
- The Energy Innovation Program provides non-repayable contributions for eligible project activities.
- This call may contribute up to 50% of total project costs. It is expected that projects will request between $3,000,000 and $7,000,000.
Outcomes
- Advance engineering knowledge and experience for large CCUS capital projects including demonstrations up to first-of-a-kind commercial deployments; producing references and analyses of performance and cost for new technologies and approaches; to inform the development of next generation technology.
- Increase the likelihood that CCUS will be constructed at scale in Canada across several different industries, supporting different technologies and approaches to CO2 usage and storage.
- Increase the knowledge base of applying CCUS to industrial facilities to accelerate replications across Canada.
Eligibility Criteria
It may include:
- Legal entities validly incorporated or registered in Canada, including:
- For profit and not for profit organizations such as electricity and gas utilities, electricity system operators, transmissions owners and operators, companies, industry associations, research associations, and standards organizations;
- Indigenous organizations and groups;
- Community groups;
- Canadian academic institutions.
- Provincial, territorial, regional and municipal governments and their departments and agencies where applicable.
- It is expected that Proponents (the entity that will sign a contribution agreement with NRCan) will be the majority owner of any assets purchased in full or in part by funding provided by NRCan.
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