Energy Innovation Program – Smart Grids

STATUS: Closed

The Energy Innovation Program’s Smart Grid call for proposals will provide support to the key technology, market, and regulatory innovations that address barriers in order to scale pilot projects into grid-wide deployments. The intended results include significant impacts to enhancing grid reliability, resiliency, and flexibility; energy affordability; enabling greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions; and making market conditions more favourable to scaling successful innovations.

Timelines

Smart Grid Calls	Open to Applications	Close Date	Expression of Interest Selection Period	Status
Demonstration	October 30, 2023	January 10, 2024	Winter/Spring 2024	Closed
Regulatory Innovation Capacity Building	October 30, 2023	January 31, 2024	Winter/Spring 2024	Closed

Why is Canada investing in Smart Grids?

Smart grids modernize the safe and secure delivery of electricity, provide foundations for new market structures and a higher quality of service for customers. They are a key enabler for GHG mitigation as they increase the hosting capacity of renewable generation, leverage more from the electricity infrastructure we have, and increase resiliency.

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