Seven Calgary companies have secured a combined $15.1 million from Emissions Reduction Alberta to advance technologies spanning clean fuels, critical minerals, nuclear energy, agricultural feed and industrial emissions monitoring.
The local investments form part of ERA’s latest $51-million funding portfolio, which supports 16 projects valued at nearly $180 million across Alberta. Funding is supplied through the province’s industry-funded Technology Innovation and Emissions Reduction fund.
The largest Calgary recipient is EnerPure, which is receiving $6.2 million toward a $30.6-million commercial facility that will recycle used motor oil into low-sulphur, lower-carbon marine fuel.
Qube Technologies was awarded $2.55 million to enhance its continuous emissions-monitoring platform. The Calgary company combines sensors, artificial intelligence and cloud-based analytics to help industrial operators detect, quantify and address methane and other greenhouse-gas emissions.
Athabasca Asphalt Company is receiving $2.26 million to develop a first-of-its-kind facility that will produce high-performance asphalt binder from Alberta bitumen. The proposed process eliminates water use while simplifying conventional asphalt production.
FulcrumAir secured $1.5 million for an all-electric, drone-hoisted robotic system that installs spacers and bird diverters on overhead power lines. The technology is designed to replace work traditionally performed using helicopters and bucket trucks, reducing emissions and ground disturbance.
Another $1.5 million is going to Nucleon Fuel, a subsidiary of Calgary’s Nucleon Energy. The company will evaluate a proposed facility that would convert Canadian-mined uranium concentrate into uranium hexafluoride, a key step in producing fuel for conventional reactors and emerging small modular reactors.
Calgary biotechnology company Cvictus will receive $750,000 to develop and pilot a non-photosynthetic single-cell protein intended as a lower-carbon feed alternative for poultry, swine and aquaculture.
Rounding out the local recipients is Chemshift Technologies, which was awarded approximately $360,000 to design and test a pilot-scale refining system capable of converting low-purity lithium carbonate into ultra-high-purity, battery-grade material.
Together, the seven Calgary-led projects represent more than $53 million in proposed investment. They also demonstrate the range of the city’s clean-technology sector, extending from technologies rooted in Alberta’s traditional energy industry to robotics, biotechnology, critical minerals and nuclear-fuel infrastructure.
Across the full provincial portfolio, ERA estimates the projects could reduce emissions by 117,700 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent by 2030, generate 1,556 person-years of employment and contribute approximately $250 million to Alberta’s economy.
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