The province will hand out a total of nearly $6 million to six Innovative Clean Energy (ICE) Fund projects, the government has announced.
The selected projects are:
- Burnaby-based Delta-Q, which will receive $1 million for a project that will showcase energy use and storage and the next generation of B.C.-developed charger technology for electric vehicles;
- Delta-based Earth Renu Energy Corp., which will receive $1 million for a facility that will process up to 66,000 tonnes per year of urban organic waste to produce natural gas, separating organic material from contaminated urban organic waste (such as food in plastic containers);
- Delta-based Quadrogen Power Systems, which gets $1 million for a project that will use landfill gas from the Vancouver Landfill to demonstrate a power plant system that will be used in greenhouses at the Village Farms site;
- North Vancouver-based S2G Biochemicals Inc., which will receive $1 million for a project that will demonstrate the viability of bio-glycols produced from agricultural, forest and biofuels industry feedstock and byproduct hydrogen;
- Vancouver-based Saltworks Technologies Inc., which will receive $977,790 for a low-energy plant powered by waste heat that demonstrates desalination of seawater and wastewater treatment, with pure water and salt as end products;
- Sooke-based T’Sou-ke First Nation, which will be given $1 million for a project that will demonstrate new green MicroAir heating and cooling technology in an industrial greenhouse.
“Clean technology continues in B.C. with these six new ICE Fund projects, which will bring 184 jobs and almost $53 million in investment to B.C. communities,” said Energy and Mines Minister Rich Coleman.
Jenny Wagler
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