Clean Fuels Fund - Building New Domestic Production Capacity

Domestic production capacity

Canada’s clean fuels industry must immediately, and significantly, increase its current capacity to play the critical role needed in our 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.

To that end, the Clean Fuels Fund will 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.

Program benefits

Funding the build-out of new production capacity will:

• Who can apply?
• What projects are eligible?
• How to apply
• Start your application

Key dates

1. Call for project proposals opens: June 21, 2021

2. Deadlines to submit your project proposals: Call for project proposals closed on October 13, 2021

3. Begin the review process

   • Completeness review: April 2022
   • Mandatory criteria review: Early May 2022
   • Evaluation Committee: May 2022
   • Investment Committee validation: June 2022
   • Final project decision: Summer/Fall 2022

4. Initiate contribution agreements with successful applicants: Summer/Fall 2022

5. Program completion date: March 31, 2026