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Lethbridge Biogas/Cogeneration Project
ERA funding helped Lethbridge Biogas develop a full-scale biogas cogeneration project fueled by organics comprised of agricultural manures and food processing wastes in the County of Lethbridge Rave Industrial Park. The facility uses an anaerobic digestion process to produce renewable energy. The anaerobic digestion process captures and uses methane, a potent greenhouse gas with a global warming…
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ENMAX Micro Renewable Energy Program
The ENMAX group of companies provides electricity, natural gas and value-added services to residential, commercial and industrial customers throughout Alberta. This project increased the deployment of rooftop solar PV retrofits across Alberta, built solar installation capacity by contracting with third-party installers and provided financing options for customers to install solar PV without large up-front costs…
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Reduction of GHG Emissions through Greening Biofuel Production and CO2 Utilization: From Pilot Plant to Commercialization
Enerkem Inc. develops community-based advanced bio refineries using proprietary thermo-chemical technology that converts residual materials, such as municipal solid waste, into clean transportation fuels and advanced chemicals. By using waste materials to produce clean biofuels and incorporating CO2 directly into the process, this renewable energy project in Edmonton demonstrates the potential of the technology. Once…
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Medicine Hat Concentrating Solar Thermal Power Demonstration Project
Medicine Hat’s vision is to be the ‘community of choice’ for more than 60,000 residents, numerous businesses and countless visitors. The city employs more than 1,200 people and has readily available natural gas resources, allowing the city to explore innovative solutions in the areas of wind power, solar heating, and a water aquifer to heat…
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Growing Power Hairy Hill Integrated bioRefinery
In the tiny hamlet of Hairy Hill, approximately 100 kilometres east of Edmonton, GPHH developed the first Integrated BioRefinery™ in Canada. The refinery, also the world’s first carbon neutral biofuel plant, utilized a unique system that processes a number of raw biomass products into high-value products such as fuel ethanol, green power and fertilizer.
