BC awards $8 million for renewable energy

Aug. 2, 2011, Victoria – Twelve new
Innovative Clean Energy (ICE) Fund projects will receive a total of
$8 million from British Columbia to support the development of new clean
energy technologies. The ICE Fund helps British Columbia entrepreneurs,
communities, and First Nations demonstrate the viability of their
pre-commercial clean technologies to investors and customers worldwide. These
12 entrepreneurs, communities, and First Nations will invest about $71 million
in their projects, bringing the total investment to $79 million.

Through the ICE Fund, the province supports
a broad range of technological applications, including ocean tidal and wave,
solar, geoexchange, micro-hydro, wind, bioenergy, waste use, and energy
conservation and management. To learn more about the ICE Fund, visit www.icefund.gov.bc.ca.

• ASG
  Canada Energy Inc.,
  Anahim Lake – $1 million. The project will convert waste biomass to biodiesel
  and show how communities and industry can use the excess heat and electricity
  for power.
• Awesense
  Wireless Inc., Kelowna
  – $85,000. This project will use wireless technology to monitor power usage and
  help detect electricity theft.
• Canadian
  International Aircraft Technologies Group Inc., Winfield – $225,000. This project will retrofit
  aircraft to replace traditional propulsion technology with electric motors and
  energy storage components.
• Cedar
  Road LFG Inc., Nanaimo
  – $1 million. This facility, located at the Regional District of Nanaimo
  landfill, produces 1.3 MW of electricity from biogas for sale to BC Hydro. The
  project will demonstrate a solution for the storage and dispensing of biogas
  for commercial vehicles as well as a new heat recovery system that will capture
  waste heat for the district.
• Corinex
  Communications Corp.,
  Various Locations – $1 million. This project will deploy next generation Clean
  Tech Smart MicroGrid technology to support clean energy resources and
  electricity conservation.
• EcoSmart
  Foundation, Kimberley –
  $1 million. This will be the first B.C. installation of a grid-connected solar
  power plant on a brownfield mine site. It will also show how solar tracking
  technology can be adapted for northern climates.
• Mavi
  Turbines Inc., Prince
  Rupert – $470,000. This project will build, deploy and monitor a commercial
  scale tidal energy converter specifically designed to serve remote communities.
• MineSense
  Technologies Inc.,
  Princeton – $269,000. This project will demonstrate technology that provides
  ore composition information for upgrading low-grade copper ore at the mine
  prior to milling.
• Nations
  Energy Corp., Kamloops – $1 million. This
  commercial-scale torrefaction plant will convert mountain pine beetle damaged wood
  into bio-coal fuel pellets. The pellets can be used at power stations, in
  boilers and in cement kilns as an alternative to coal.
• Pytrade
  Canada Inc., Kitimat –
  $1 million. This project will build a fast-pyrolysis plant that will heat biomass to produce
  bio-oil, charcoal and gas. The bio-oil can be used to create electricity for
  the grid.
• Tsay
  Keh Dene First Nation,
  Williston Lake – $81,000. This will be the first solar powered LED lighting
  system at an airfield in B.C. The system will reduce greenhouse gas emissions
  in this diesel-powered community.
• Tsay
  Keh Dene First Nation –
  $1 million. This project takes wood waste from the shores of Williston Lake to produce heat
  and electricity for
  this diesel reliant community. This wood waste has about as much energy as 30
  million litres of diesel.