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.

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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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Benefits of smart grids

  • Better utilizing existing capacity of electricity assets
  • Increasing the penetration of renewable generation
  • Increasing the reliability, resiliency and flexibility of the power system
  • Maintaining cyber security
  • Reducing greenhouse gas emissions
  • Creating jobs
 

Results

The Energy Innovation Program – Smart Grids Call for Proposals received 103 eligible submissions, under the Demonstration focus area, amounting to an overall request of $354M. After a stringent review process, three contribution agreements have been signed. The Regulatory Innovation Capacity Building focus area received 46 eligible submissions, amounting to an overall request of $39.6M.

As the funded projects are announced, they will be posted on our Current Investments page. 

Contact us

For any questions regarding this Smart Grid Call, please contact NRCan at energyinnovation-innovationenergetique@nrcan-rncan.gc.ca. During regular operations, NRCan will strive to respond within two business days.

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