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ERA injects up to $10 million to improve cash flow for projects
To help navigate the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the economic challenges facing Alberta, ERA is making up to $10 million available in the next quarter to speed up cash flow and support the liquidity of our active projects. ERA is temporarily adjusting our payment holdback policy to a lower percentage held until project…
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New $50 million funding opportunity targets natural gas innovation
Emissions Reduction Alberta’s (ERA) new $50 million Natural Gas Challenge will unlock innovation across Alberta’s natural gas value chain, from production to market and all points in between. It supports clean technology projects that reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and improve the competitiveness of the natural gas industry. In 2018, Alberta produced almost 70 per…
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Two carbon converting technologies share $10 million in ERA’s Grand Challenge
Two successful projects have emerged from Round 3 of ERA’s five-year funding competition, Grand Challenge: Innovative Carbon Uses. ERA is awarding $5 million to Mangrove Water Technologies and $5 million to CarbonCure Technologies to support commercialization of their technologies in Alberta. ERA launched the $35-million Grand Challenge in 2013 to find the world’s most innovative…
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$12.1 million announced for projects worth over a half billion dollars
ERA’s new Partnership Intake Program helps leverage funding and streamline support for innovators EDMONTON, AB – A $285 million, first-of-its-kind, wheat-based, biofuels facility is being developed by Carbon Clean Energy Inc. The project aims to create low carbon intensity ethanol in response to Alberta’s new renewable fuel standards. Known as Project Wheatland, the state-of-the-art plant…
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$100 million investment in clean technology projects
$600 million total project value will deliver 2.5 million tonnes of CO2e reductions EDMONTON, AB – An innovative clean technology to transition Alberta’s diesel-powered transit buses to electric is getting a boost in funding from Emissions Reduction Alberta (ERA). eCAMION’s first-of-kind charging system is expected to reduce e-bus impact on the electrical grid and lower…
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$70.2 million announced to help Alberta’s industries reduce greenhouse gas emissions and remain globally competitive
Calgary, AB – Using low carbon fuels to make cement and recovering heat from a refinery to generate electricity are just two examples of promising new technologies that will get a funding boost as a direct result of the carbon levy paid by industry. Eleven projects worth a combined value of $267 million will receive…
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New chair for Emissions Reduction Alberta
Respected oil and gas expert David Collyer is the new board chair of Emissions Reduction Alberta (ERA), effective Oct. 1, 2018. Collyer’s nearly 40 years of experience complements and builds on the skill sets of ERA’s board of directors. He has served as president and CEO of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, president and…
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Alberta invests in new clean technology challenge
Innovators in biotechnology, electricity and sustainable transportation are invited to apply for government funding to develop new clean technologies that reduce greenhouse gases. Funding for the program is provided by the government through ERA. “We are looking for innovative technologies that will strengthen Alberta’s economy and reduce GHG emissions. This challenge reinforces the benefits of…
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Helping energy-intensive industries cut emissions
Large industrial emitters with innovative ideas to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and save money are invited to apply for funding from a new government program. The $35-million Industrial Efficiency Challenge supports Alberta’s energy-intensive and trade-exposed industries, offering large industrial emitters the opportunity to improve cost competitiveness and reduce emissions. Funding for the challenge is provided…
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$28.8-Million to Lower Hospital Costs, Reduce Water Use in Oil Industry Operations, and Address Greenhouse Gas Emissions
EDMONTON, AB – The Kaye Edmonton Clinic and the Fort Saskatchewan Community Hospital will be test sites for a project looking to improve the efficiency of large commercial buildings, reducing GHG emissions and energy costs. This is just one of 11 projects focused on innovative clean energy and water technologies receiving $28.8-million in joint federal…
