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Accelerating Community Energy Transformation (ACET)
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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.
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71
Total research projects
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8
Standard projects under late stages of development
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31
Provincial / Territorial / National scale projects initiated in Canada

Projects

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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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Project three visual

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.
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Project 3 visual

Northern Regional Energy Dialogues

The Northern Regional Energy Dialogues project supports energy transformation across northern B.C. by working directly with communities and First Nations to identify local energy needs, challenges and opportunities.
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Project four visual

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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FNUS project visual

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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Hydrogen research project visual

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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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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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.