GHG Daily
1/26/2016
Alberta, Canada’s, Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation (CCEMC) has extended to Feb. 1 the proposal submission deadline for its CAD$15 million funding completion for projects related to the innovative use of carbon dioxide, the independent, not-for-profit organization announced. The funding competition is the second round of CCEMC’s “Grand Challenge,” a three-round program providing a total of $35 million. The first round of the program awarded a combined total of nearly $12 million to 24 projects.
“CCEMC extended the deadline by design. We know that teams use every last moment to prepare their applications and we want to give them every opportunity to provide the best possible submission,” a CCEMC spokesperson told GHG Daily by e-mail.
This round of the competition will award up to five projects a maximum of $3 million to support efforts to convert greenhouse gases into carbon-based products. “Success in this round of the challenge will result in demonstrated technologies that can each show a clear path towards at least 1 megatonne net reduction in GHG emissions annually and have an executable plan for deployment in Alberta,” the request for proposals says.
Proposals must demonstrate that the technology will result in at least 1 net megaton of GHG reductions annually, is economically viable and scalable, can be piloted within two years, can be implemented in Alberta, and is commercially feasible for implementation in Alberta.
Proposals will be reviewed by CCEMC and a select group will be invited to submit more comprehensive proposals, which will be due in July 2016. A final decision of winning proposals will be made in March 2017.
