Details on Transfer Payment Programs of $5M or more

NRCan’s Green Construction through Wood (GCWood) Program is aimed at supporting the use of wood in non-traditional construction projects, such as tall buildings, low-rise non-residential buildings and bridges. The GCWood Program launch follows the Government’s Budget 2017 announcement of $39.8M over four years, starting in April 2018, to undertake this initiative.

The GCWood Program supports Canada’s transition to a more wood-inclusive construction industry by funding projects that encourage:

• Greater adoption and commercialization of wood-based products in the construction of innovative tall wood buildings, timber bridges, and low-rise non-residential wood buildings;
• Replication of demonstrated innovative non-traditional wood-based buildings and timber bridges; and,
• Research that addresses the gap in technical information needed to facilitate revisions to the 2020 and 2025 National Building Code of Canada (NBCC) to allow tall wood buildings beyond the current 6 storey limit.

The Program provides non-repayable contributions of up to 100% of a project’s eligible incremental costs for the demonstration of innovative engineered wood products and systems. The funding is intended to offset the cost of being the “first mover” of wood-intensive projects, and to support the development of knowledge and tools to support the success of future projects.

The GCWood Program will directly contribute to the following results:

• Regulatory agencies and specifiers (engineers, designers and architects) have the information they need to determine product, performance and environmental credentials;
• Architects, engineers, and builders have the information and tools necessary to pursue wood-based building projects;
• Regulatory acceptance/recognition of Canadian wood products and building systems in building codes, standards, and policies.

*****There are expected results that extend to 2025 and 2030, but those noted above are the core expected results that can be achieved by end of 2020*****

Eligible recipients of the GCWood Program, and the primary targets for demonstration activities include:

• For-profit and not-for-profit companies registered in Canada;
• Provincial, territorial, regional and municipal governments and their departments and agencies.

Eligible recipients and the target audience for education and code-related initiatives are:

• Forest product associations (engaged in forest product promotion)
• Provinces, provincial Crown corporations; and,
• Not-for-profit organizations engaged in forest product research.

The Clean Technology Challenges form part of the Government of Canada’s Impact Canada Initiative (ICI), designed to help departments accelerate the adoption of innovative funding approaches to deliver meaningful results to Canadians. The Clean Technology program ($75M over 4 years) stream will address areas such as climate change, clean growth, and the application of new technologies to reduce negative environmental impacts. All five cleantech challenges were launched in 2018-19. For each challenge, a mix of tools (e.g., contribution agreements, grants, micro-grants) will be used, based on technical, market and environmental circumstances, in order to achieve breakthroughs in clean technology, and leverage as much innovation activity as possible from a given award level.

Contribution payments made under this program are non-repayable.

The ICI Cleantech program is focused on unlocking breakthrough solutions to complex and persistent problems in developing clean technology. In the long term, the program is intended to contribute to improved environmental and economic performance in Canada’s natural resource and clean technology sectors. Short- and medium-term results include:

• Increased awareness, participation and collaboration in clean technology challenges and projects;
• Increased investment by stakeholders in clean technology research, development and demonstration (RD&D) projects;
• Increased engagement with/among Canadians
• Emerging technologies are closer to commercial readiness; and, new disruptive technologies, alternative business/funding models that can generate better outcomes, and/or capacity building activities to facilitate the adoption of clean technology solutions.

Funding is open to Canadian and international identified eligible recipients provided they meet the criteria established by each challenge or challenge stage.

Eligible recipients will include, but are not limited to:

• Legal entities validly incorporated or registered in Canada or abroad such as:
• Private sector and not-for-profit organizations such as electricity and gas utilities, companies, industry associations, research associations, and standards organizations;
• Indigenous organizations and groups;
• Community groups;
• Academic institutions;
• Provincial, territorial, regional and municipal governments and their departments and agencies, where applicable;
• Unincorporated groups, societies and coalitions; and,
• Individuals.

Delivery of each ICI Challenge varies from challenge to challenge. The development and scoping of challenges involved extensive consultations with experts, partners and stakeholders, such as sector associations, industry, academia, and Indigenous governments and representative organizations and provinces/territories and other levels of government.

The program engages in a range of activities to help promote the challenges, encourage participation and provide guidance to potential challenge participants including: sharing challenge information on Natural Resources Canada website and the Impact Canada Initiative Prize and Challenge interactive website, using social media campaigns, targeted outreach, hosting webinars and delivering workshops.

The objectives of the program are to increase the energy efficiency of consumer and commercial products, to enhance commercial and residential building sector performance, to encourage the implementation of cleaner and more energy efficient technologies in the industrial sector and to support low carbon options for the on-road transportation sector.

Contribution payments made under this program are non-repayable.

The ultimate outcome of the program is improved energy efficiency in target sectors (industry, equipment, building, housing and transportation).

This will be measured through the total annual energy savings [in petajoules (PJ)] resulting from the adoption of energy efficiency codes, standards and practices.

Expected results in 2021: 600 PJ in total annual energy savings by 2030.

The general audience is individuals and legal entities validly incorporated or registered in Canada including for-profit and not-for-profit organizations such as:

• Electricity and gas utilities, companies, industry associations, research associations, standards organizations, indigenous and community groups, Canadian academic institutions; and,
• Provincial, territorial, regional and municipal governments and their departments and agencies, where applicable.

International legal entities validly incorporated or registered abroad including for-profit and not-for-profit organizations such as:

• Industry associations;
• Research associations;
• Standards organizations; and,
• Academic institutions.

Residential Energy Efficiency

The Office of Energy Efficiency is supporting experimentation and the use of new policy instruments and approaches to drive residential energy efficiency.

Energy Efficient Buildings Research Development & Demonstration Program:

The program conducted extensive engagement with industry, associations, provinces and Territories, and research and policy groups to help inform the scope of calls for proposals.

In 2017-18, requests for project proposals were solicited from a broad range of eligible recipients including industry, academia and consortia via open, advertised proposal calls; non-advertised direct requests for proposals to allocate the first envelope of funding ($15M).

Other calls for proposals are planned on a bi-yearly basis until the remaining program funds are fully allocated.

This program will advance the decommissioning of legacy uranium mine and mill tailings in the Province of Saskatchewan, to be in accordance with current regulatory standards. The program will provide financial contributions to the Government of Saskatchewan for it to undertake decommissioning activities at the Gunnar uranium mine site.^{Footnote 2}

This program does not contain any repayable contributions.

The Clean Growth Program will provide $155M over four years to support clean technology research and development (R&D), and demonstration projects in Canada’s energy, mining, and forest sectors. The program is designed to advance emerging clean technologies towards commercial readiness so that natural resource operations can better reduce their environmental impacts on air, land, and water, while enhancing competitiveness and creating jobs.

The program has conditionally repayable contributions for demonstration projects; R&D activities are non-repayable.

The projects funded by the program are expected to reduce the environmental impact of natural resource operations, support the growth of Canada’s clean technology sector, and assist in sustaining Canadian resource industries as a source of jobs and opportunity.

• Economic performance: cost reduction, new revenue
• Move emerging technologies closer to commercial readiness.

*Dependent on projects received, success of projects, and on-going operation capacity by 2026+.

Eligible Canadian Recipients include:

• Legal entities validly incorporated or registered in Canada including: For profit and not-for-profit organizations such as electricity and gas utilities, companies, industry associations, research associations, and standards organizations; Indigenous organizations and groups; Community groups; and Canadian academic institutions; and,
• Provincial, territorial, regional and municipal governments and their departments and agencies where applicable.

Through an extensive multisector engagement initiative, the program engaged key industry and provincial/territorial stakeholders during the development of the program. This informed the technology agnostic scope of the program. In order to facilitate the co-funding of projects with provincial and territorial partners, the program has developed Trusted Partnerships with key provincial and territorial stakeholders.

To increase awareness about proposal solicitations, program officials have

• Presented at conferences, workshops and sector meetings;
• Held two webinars after program launch (approx. 1000 participants);
• Launched an interactive social media platform to encourage potential applicants to collaborate with other partners, provinces/territories, and federal research centres; and,
• Led social media campaigns and hosted stakeholder engagement webinars and calls with involvement from the provinces and territories.

Additionally, in 2017 the program established the Clean Growth Collaboration Community, an online community intended to foster collaboration among stakeholders on the innovation spectrum and to help them find the support they need to be successful.

In 2018, requests for letters of interests (LOI) were solicited from a broad range of eligible recipients such as industry, academia and consortia via open, advertised calls. Of the 761 LOI submitted, 104 applicants were invited to submit full project proposals. Projects were selected through a rigorous review process.

The objective is to support the competitiveness of Canada’s natural resource sectors through a comprehensive suite of research, development, demonstration, and RSA (Related Scientific Activities) projects leading to advances in technology, increased knowledge and collaboration, input into codes, standards and associated policies and regulations, and ultimately improved environmental and economic performance.

The program has conditionally repayable contributions for demonstration projects; R&D and RSA are non-repayable.

Activities are expected to contribute to new research, development, demonstration projects and associated codes and standards, and new knowledge products, including studies and analyses.

Performance measures include:

• # of technology readiness levels advanced;
• # of intellectual properties generated;
• # of knowledge products generated;
• # of partners and collaborators;
• # codes, standards, regulations, and policies impacted;
• GHG emissions reduced;
• # jobs (person-years of employment generated);
• Ratio of NRCan funding versus leveraged funding;
• Project specific environmental and economic performance measures.

Eligible Canadian Recipients include:

1. Legal entities validly incorporated or registered in Canada including: For profit and not for profit organizations such as electricity and gas utilities, companies, industry associations, research associations, and standards organizations; Indigenous organizations and groups; Community groups; and Canadian academic institutions.
2. Provincial, territorial, regional and municipal governments and their departments and agencies where applicable.

Eligible International Recipients (for Mission Innovation activities only) will include treaty organizations and other international legal entities validly incorporated or registered abroad including: For-profit and not-for-profit organizations such as industry associations, agencies, research associations, standards organizations; and academic institutions.

Funding is available to Indigenous groups potentially impacted by the Trans Mountain Expansion Pipeline Project (TMX) and the Line 3 Replacement Program (Line 3) to enhance their capacity to participate in the Indigenous Advisory and Monitoring Committees; to pursue other Committee objectives including those supporting their mandate to provide advice to regulators on environmental, safety, and socio-economic issues related to the performance of the projects and compliance with conditions; and to address other environmental concerns related to the broader pipeline corridor over the full lifecycle of development.

The transfer payment program has non-repayable contributions.

To effectively respond to Indigenous issues and priorities related to the TMX and Line 3 pipeline projects through the provision of capacity and other supports that address objectives identified by Indigenous groups involved in the monitoring of these projects.

Eligible recipients include:

• Indigenous communities or governments;
• Tribal Councils or entities that fulfill a similar function (e.g. general council);
• National, provincial, regional, and local Indigenous organizations;
• Indigenous validly incorporated or registered for-profit and not-for-profit organizations and corporations;
• Where fully endorsed by an Indigenous partner organization or community:
  • Provincial, territorial, municipal, and regional governments;
  • Academic institutions and research associations working with an Indigenous partner organization; and,
  • Non-Indigenous validly incorporated or registered not-for-profit organizations.

Lower carbon transportation is both an essential component of longer-term decarbonisation of the economy as well as a short-term means for reducing emissions. As outlined in the Pan Canadian Framework for Clean Growth and Climate Change, coordinated and targeted green infrastructure investments to support electrification and fuel switching in the light-and heavy-duty vehicle sectors correspond to two pillars of the framework to lower emissions from the transportation sector. These investments are required to eliminate barriers that currently impede the adoption of clean transportation choices and to spur the wide-scale deployment of low-carbon vehicles, which will enable further greenhouse gas emission reductions across the transportation sector.

This investment will support:

• The installation of commercially available fast-charging electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure and other alternative fuel infrastructure (e.g. hydrogen and natural gas) along highly travelled routes to address consumer and commercial fleets’ concerns regarding the low availability of recharging/refuelling infrastructure investor concerns regarding the financial risk to investment. This will help to accelerate market deployment of electric and alternative fuel vehicles and fuels; and,
• The development of codes and standards for low-carbon vehicles and refuelling infrastructure.

This initiative will use repayable contributions (with the Government of Canada providing up to 50% of total project costs) to decrease the risk of investing in EV and alternative fuel infrastructure. These projects will be monitored for ability to repay over 10 years, following project completion.

The ultimate outcome is that Canada transitions to a lower carbon transportation, which will be measured through a number of indicators, including the number of low-carbon recharging and refueling stations under development or completed.

The expected results for Phase II investments by 2024 are the following:

• Nine hundred EV-charging stations along the national highway system and other identified strategic locations. Through this initiative, the objective will be for Canadians to be able to travel the length of the Trans-Canada Highway and key connection routes from Vancouver to Halifax and also to the United States by having access to charging stations at optimal distances (every 65 kilometres on both sides of these routes).
• Twelve Hydrogen refuelling stations: in major metropolitan areas (e.g. Greater Toronto Area, Vancouver, and Montreal) which have been identified by vehicle manufacturers as the most likely for early deployment. This will ensure that the needed infrastructure is available as fuel cell EVs enter the market. The program will also include targeted deployment along the first inter-city hydrogen corridor in Canada (Montreal to Toronto).
• Fifteen Natural Gas refuelling stations along major freight routes. The objective will be to establish natural gas refuelling stations along key east-west freight corridors covering more than 80 percent of truck freight movement in Canada, as well as strategic linkages to key North American transportation corridors, including:
  1. Halifax-Quebec-Windsor, and into the United States via Detroit;
  2. Toronto - Winnipeg into the United States. via Grand Forks; and,
  3. Edmonton – Calgary – Lower Mainland British Columbia into the United States via Seattle.

By March 2020, the initial projects supported by Phase 2 will have been completed.

Eligible recipients include:

• Individuals and legal entities validly incorporated or registered in Canada including: electricity or gas utilities, companies, industry associations, research associations, standards organizations, Indigenous and community groups, Canadian academic institutions, and provincial, territorial, regional or municipal governments or their departments or agencies, where applicable.
• International legal entities validly incorporated or registered abroad including: companies, industry associations, research associations, standards organizations, and academic institutions.

The project selection criteria for Phase II of this initiative was informed by consultations with provinces and territories, as well as through the mid-term review of Phase I deployment.

All provincial/territorial (P/T) governments were engaged bilaterally, prior to launching the requests for proposals (RFP) for Phase II, to better understand their own programming plans. PT governments are also consulted on each projected selected for funding in their jurisdiction.

The first Request for Proposals for Phase II was shared with over 100 stakeholders. Subsequent RFPs are planned on a yearly basis

The Smart Grid program will invest $100 M over four years (2018-19 to 2021-22) to support the deployment of existing smart grid integrated systems (which may include energy storage) and demonstration of promising near-commercial smart grid technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and foster innovation and clean jobs.

The program will accelerate the transition to a clean growth economy by:

• Better utilizing the existing capacity of electricity assets;
• Increasing the penetration of renewable generation; and,
• Increasing the reliability, resiliency, and flexibility of the power system while maintaining cyber security.

This transfer payment program is repayable as follows:

Demonstration: Repayable, if the demonstration leads to a profit within five years following the end of the project. The requirements for reporting profits will be detailed in the contribution agreement, along with the process for repayment.

Deployment: Repayable, if the deployment leads to a profit within five (5) years following the project commissioning. The requirements for reporting profits will be detailed in the contribution agreement, along with the process for repayment.

Expected results for the 2019-20 to 2021-22 period are:

• Ratio of project investments made by stakeholders to deployment project funding from the program leveraged at a minimum of 1:3.
• Ratio of project investments made by stakeholders to demonstration project funding from the program leveraged at a minimum of 1:1.

Longer-term expected result by 2030:

• GHG emission reductions of 0.9 mega tonnes (Mt) from the electricity grid

Legal entities validly incorporated in Canada including:

• For-profit and not-for-profit organizations such as electricity and gas utilities, system operators and transmission owners and operators (including Provincial Crown Corporations, agencies, co-ops and municipally-owned) and, local distribution companies;
• Provincial, territorial, regional and municipal governments, and their departments and agencies; and,
• Indigenous (majority owned and controlled by Indigenous people), for-profit and not-for-profit organizations.

The program will reduce reliance on diesel in rural and remote communities by deploying and demonstrating renewable energy projects, encouraging energy efficiency and building skills and capacity.

Contribution payments made under this program are repayable.

Expected results for this program include:

• Deployment project funding leveraged at an average of 2:3 ($81M : $121M), total from 2018-19 to 2023-24;
• Demonstration project funding leveraged at an average of 3:2 ($55M : $37M), total from 2018-19 to 2023-24;
• Bioheating project funding leveraged at an average of 4:1 ($46M : $11M) , total from 2018-19 to 2023-24;
• 10 communities newly installed or retrofitted bioheating systems (by 2019-20)
• Maintain 2 co-operative arrangements^{Footnote 4} on information products and expertise on energy efficiency with other federal departments (annually from 2018-19 to 2023-24);
• Minimum of 10 energy literacy projects (by 2019-2020).

Review and approval of new applications will continue through 2019-20. The program will announce newly funded projects in 2019-20.

The program continues to engage real and potential applicants through the Remote Energy Inbox, calls with potential applicants when requested, and engagement sessions at conferences and through other platforms, such as the Pan-Canadian Framework. (2019-20)

This program will support the deployment of renewable electricity technologies which have been established successfully abroad or have been demonstrated successfully in Canada but have not yet been deployed commercially. This program will help mitigate the risk of upfront capital investments in emerging renewable power projects.

The Emerging Renewable Power Program funding is conditionally repayable should the project yield a return on investment above and beyond the total project costs less the federal contribution.

Expected results for the 2018-2019 to 2020-2021 period are:

• Three contribution agreements are signed and two regional assessments are completed and released publicly;
• Projects using at least three different technologies (one technology per project) are supported by the program; and,
• Two provincially-led support mechanisms (e.g. regulatory frameworks, power purchase agreements)

Eligible recipients include:

• Legal entities validly incorporated or registered in Canada, including for profit and not-for-profit organizations, system operators and transmission owners and operators, local distribution companies, industry associations, research associations, regional, and community development corporations.
• Provincial, territorial, regional and municipal governments, and their departments and agencies, where applicable. Indigenous communities, councils or governments and Indigenous for-profit and not-for-profit organizations.

The objective of the program is to position regions and sectors to undertake measures that will enable them to adapt to a changing climate.

This program does not have repayable contributions.

• Target stakeholders (e.g., communities, businesses in natural-resource sectors, and professionals such as engineers, planners) have access to information, expertise and tools.
• Adaptation measures have been identified by targeted stakeholders.

Eligible recipients include:

• Canadian academic institutions, non-governmental organizations, industry, research, and professional associations, companies, indigenous communities or governments, community, regional and national Indigenous organizations and, provincial, territorial, regional and municipal governments and their departments and agencies.
• International not-for-profit legal entities, valid academic institutions, industry, research, and professional associations and, non-governmental organizations.

Expanding Market Opportunities (EMO) aims at maintaining and growing international wood product markets, expanding wood use in the North American non-residential and mid-rise construction market, and promoting the strong environmental credentials of Canadian forest products.

This transfer payment program provides non-repayable contributions.

EMO will directly achieve the following results:

• Investment of $45 million for the Softwood Lumber Action Plan to promote and grow Canadian wood products in global markets;
• Regulatory agencies and buyers of Canadian forest products have the information they need to determine product performance and environmental credentials;
• Industry has the information to identify emerging market trends and pursue market opportunities;
• Industry supports EMO market development activities;
• Cooperation and coordination is increased among key stakeholder groups; and,
• There is increased awareness of Canadian forest products and construction technologies

Eligible recipients include not-for-profit forest products associations (engaged in forest product promotion and exports), manufactured housing associations, provinces, provincial Crown corporations, and, not-for-profit organizations engaged in forest product research.

The Forest Innovation Program (FIP) supports the forest sector’s innovation agenda and priorities needed to continue the transformation of Canada’s forest sector to ensure its competitiveness.

This transfer payment program provides non-repayable contributions.

The FIP will directly contribute to the following results:

• Forest-based research and development and deployment programs address key opportunities and threats facing Canada’s forest sector;
• Improved knowledge of the physical and environmental attributes of forest products;
• Industry stakeholders are aware of and engaged in forest-based research; and
• Collaboration among organizations working on forest-related research is optimized.

The primary recipient of contributions is FPInnovations, a not-for-profit national forest research institute, and academia.

The Investments in Forest Industry Transformation (IFIT) Program was renewed in 2017-2018 with an additional $55 M of funding to support transformations that will make the forest industry more economically viable and environmentally sustainable. The objective will be achieved by investing in innovative technologies that lead to a more diverse, higher-value product mix including bioenergy and renewable power, as well as biomaterials, biochemical and next generation building products.

The Program will fund innovative projects that are using transformative technologies at the pilot and commercial scales that direct wood fibre and by-products from wood processing into higher value usages which:

• Increase the total revenues available from a log;
• Diversify product lines for the forest industry, stabilizing economic performance; and,
• Produce renewable energy and other products that are beneficial to the environment.

By providing funding to Canadian forest firms for capital investments in bioenergy and bio-product industrial processes to advance these technologies towards full, commercial-scale implementation, this Program will broaden and build upon previous investments in forest sector transformation.

This transfer payment program does not have any repayable contributions.

Expected outcomes of the program include the following:

• Canada’s forest sector is more commercially and environmentally sustainable with improved return on capital and environmental impacts;
• New forest bio-products, including next generation building products, and processes are commercially available through an increased number of new bio-products and next generation building products and processes produced;
• Canada’s forest sector has increased capacity to develop and supply commercial bio-products, including next generation building products, and processes through an increased number of new or modified facilities producing bio-products and next generation building products; and,
• Forest sector companies collaborate on projects and processes related to bio-products with other sectors (e.g. energy and chemical) through an increased number of non-traditional partnerships.

Companies that:

• Produce forest products; and,
• Have or will have existing forest product manufacturing facilities (for example, pulp, paper or panel mills) located in Canada.

Phase II of the Spruce Budworm Early Intervention Strategy is a research program investigating a new pest management approach that could avoid an outbreak and the associated socio-economic impacts in Atlantic Canada, where forestry is one of the largest economic sectors.

Phase II includes a suite of integrated research activities and operational insecticide applications to validate the early intervention strategy’s scientific foundation, enhance its efficacy for any emerging outbreaks of spruce budworm, and protect the region’s forests.

Through the Forest Pest Risk Management Program, the initiative will implement and validate a novel forest pest management approach supported by science knowledge and tools to address a forest pest issue that could have significant negative impacts on Canadian forest values and resources. This approach will be available to forest managers across Canada for application to any impeding outbreaks of spruce budworm in order to mitigate risks to forest resources or other related values.

This transfer payment program provides non-repayable contributions.

Expected results over the 2019–20 to 2021–22 period include:

• Effective annual treatment of Atlantic Canada’s forest at risk of a spruce budworm outbreak

Performance indicator: Percentage of forest areas eligible for treatment where spruce budworm population remain below outbreak threshold

• Access to scientific knowledge, surveillance solutions, and response solutions pertaining to spruce budworm outbreaks and the Early Intervention Strategy

Performance indicator: Number of advisory committees and boards involving the sharing of knowledge and information on forest pests and related risks to governments, industry, and non-governmental organizations

• Forest Protection Limited
• Universities
• Not-for-profit research institutions

The Minister of Natural Resources is responsible under section 214 of the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Atlantic Accord Implementation Act to make payments to the province of Newfoundland and Labrador equivalent to the revenue amounts received by Canada in relation to offshore oil and gas activities in the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador offshore area. The federal Newfoundland Offshore Petroleum Resource Revenue Fund Regulations prescribe the time and manner for making the transfer payments. The funds are drawn from the Consolidated Revenue Fund.

This transfer payment program does not have any repayable contributions.

Payments to the province of Newfoundland and Labrador pursuant to provisions of the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Atlantic Accord Implementation Act.

The program takes into consideration royalties, corporate income taxes and other revenues related to the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador offshore area. Planned spending is subject to changes to factors such as production levels, crude oil prices, currency exchange rates, and profitability.

NRCan pays 50% of the operating costs of the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board. The province pays the other 50%. This is done pursuant to section 27 of the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Atlantic Accord Implementation Act. The funds are drawn from the Consolidated Revenue Fund. Cost recovery regulations put in place in 2016 allow the Board to cost recover up to 100% of eligible costs from industry, which are remitted to the Government of Canada and the province of Newfoundland and Labrador on a 50/50 basis.

This transfer payment program does not have any repayable contributions.

Payments to the Canada-Newfoundland Offshore Petroleum Board are pursuant to provisions of the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Atlantic Accord Implementation Act.

The Canada-Newfoundland Offshore Petroleum Board mandate centers on worker safety, environmental protection and safety, effective management of land tenure, maximum hydrocarbon recovery and value, and Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador benefits.

The Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Demonstration component supports the demonstration of next-generation and innovative electric vehicle charging infrastructure in Canada.

The program will undertake Front End Engineering Design studies and demonstrations to reduce the costs, understand the impacts and address potential barriers for the deployment of charging infrastructure for electric vehicles.

Projects funded under this program are conditionally repayable.

This program will build on results achieved by previous NRCan programs which contributed significantly to the early demonstration of charging infrastructure in Canada to date.

Expected results include:

• Collaborations and leveraged funding for the advancement and demonstration of electric vehicle infrastructure technologies;
• Increased scientific and technical knowledge to advance the development of electric vehicle infrastructure technologies; and,
• Accelerated commercialization and uptake of electric vehicle charging technologies.

The program is expected to result in real world demonstration projects of innovative EV infrastructure and/or solutions to technical challenges and other barriers for the uptake of EVs in the urban environment (e.g. at multi-unit residential buildings), at workplaces and for public transit, including the installation of 200 next-generation charging stations.