Calgary: Emissions Reduction Alberta (ERA) announced four winning projects March 1 for the second round of the ERA Grand Challenge: Innovative Carbon Uses at the Propel Energy Tech Forum in Calgary.
Rob Niven, Founder, CarbonCure addresses the audience Propel Energy Tech Forum in Calgary on March 1, 2017. Emissions Reduction Alberta (ERA) announced funding for four winners of the second round of the ERA Grand Challenge at the event. Also participating in the announcement were (from left) McGill University Technology Transfer Manager Derrick Wong, McGill Professor Zeitan Mi, Mangrove Water Technologies CEO Saad Dara, Solidia Technologies Chief Commercialization Officer Bo Boylan and ERA CEO Steve MacDonald.
The international competition seeks technologies to transform carbon dioxide from a waste material to an asset, while significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Each Round Two project will receive up to $3 million to accelerate their technologies over the next two years. In 2019 one will be eligible for up to an additional $10 million in funding to help commercialize their technology in Alberta.
The winning projects are:
• A sustainable method for cement production and CO2 Utilization – from Solidia Technologies
• Carbon dioxide utilization in concrete – from CarbonCure Technologies
• A technology for conversion of carbon dioxide and saline waste water to oil and gas field chemicals and re-useable water – from Mangrove Water Technologies
• Field-deployment of a carbon dioxide transformation system powered by sunlight – from McGill University.
Emissions Reduction Alberta announced funding for four winners of the second round of the ERA Grand Challenge at the Propel Energy Tech Forum in Calgary on March 1, 2017. Participants included (from left) Professor Zeitan Mi and Technology Transfer Manager Derrick Wong, McGill University; Solidia Technologies Chief Commercialization Officer Bo Boylan; ERA CEO Steve MacDonald; Mangrove Water Technologies Co-founder and Technical Advisor David Wilkinson; CarbonCure CEO and Founder Robert Niven and Mangrove Water Technologies CEO Saad Dara.
All but one new entrant, CarbonCure Technologies, progressed from the first round of the international competition. In the first round, ERA selected 24 projects from 344 submissions from around the world. First round projects received up to $500,000 in funding to develop their technologies. Nineteen winners from Round One submitted applications to continue their project development in Round Two and 69 submissions were received from new applicants.