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.
Demonstration
Status: Closed
Funding to support the following:
Accelerate grid modernization
Improve customer accessibility of grid-integrated solutions and lower GHG emissions
Address market gaps with business solutions
Regulatory Innovation Capacity
Building
Status: Closed
Funding to support the following:
Regulatory experimentation to support grid modernization
Development of skills required for enabling regulatory innovation
Increase the participation and learning from innovations in a regulatory context
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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Contact us
For any questions regarding this Smart Grid Call, please contact NRCan at sg-ri@nrcan-rncan.gc.ca. During regular operations, NRCan will strive to respond within two business days.
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