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Projects

ACET empowers communities through co-designed energy projects that bring together experts from different disciplines and institutions in the public and private sector. Guided by local priorities and knowledge, each project is as unique as the communities they serve. Read more about them below.
71
Total research projects
8
Projects in development
31
Canadian projects of national, provincial or territorial scale

Projects

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Power for People

Power for People builds on years of engagement with communities and First Nations across northern B.C. to support locally driven energy transformations.

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Worldviews in Energy and Climate Engagement

WECE examines how local governments can better engage the public on climate action and energy transformations in an increasingly polarized social landscape.

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BC Marine Energy and Decarbonization Hub

The BC Marine Energy and Decarbonization Hub is advancing a new generation of ocean-based clean energy solutions in British Columbia.

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Community Energy Finance Navigator

The Community Energy Finance Navigator shows the different financing pathways of community-led clean energy projects in Canada in a format that is accessibleinformative and easy to understand.

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First Nations Utility Study

The FNUS project looks at ways participating Nations could successfully develop and operate their own energy utilities.

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Development of High-Entropy Alloy Materials

This project explores a new family of materials called high-entropy alloys to improve clean hydrogen technologies such as electrolyzers and fuel cells for hydrogen production and storage.
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Canadian Analysis of Community Energy Policy

The Pan-Canadian Analysis of Community Energy Policy (PACEP) project examines how policies, regulations, and utility systems across Canada shape the development of community-led renewable energy projects.
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The Ulkatcho Solar Case Study

The Ulkatcho Solar Case Study is an Ulkatcho First Nation-led project to share the story of their Community Solar Farm—the largest community-owned solar project in North America.
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Realizing the Energy Transition

The Realizing the Energy Transition project helps ensure that the shift to clean energy in Western Canada is fair for everyone - especially workers and communities that depend on fossil fuels.
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Cumberland District Energy Project

The Cumberland District Energy Project explores the potential for using warm water from abandoned, flooded coal mines to heat and cool buildings in the Village of Cumberland, B.C.
All ACET research is funded in part by the Canada First Research Excellence Fund.

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Land acknowledgement

ACET acknowledges, with respect, the traditional territories of the Indigenous Peoples upon whose lands our five collaborating institutions are located: the lək̓ʷəŋən Peoples, Songhees Nation and Xʷsepsəm (Esquimalt Nation), and the W̱SÁNEĆ Peoples, home to the University of Victoria and Royal Roads University; the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation), home to the University of British Columbia, Vancouver campus; the Abenaki and the Wabenaki Confederacy, home to the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières; and the 14 Yukon First Nations, home to Yukon University. We also recognize the Indigenous communities and organizations with whom we have the honour to partner in advancing community-led clean energy transformations.