It’s that time of year again — Sustainable Development Technology Canada announced it is contributing $48 million to another 19 clean technology projects (on top of $101 million committed from the private sector), bringing its total investment to date to $285 million spread out over 10 funding rounds and 125 projects (another $690 million coming from private consortia partners).

For a list of the 19 projects click here.

Standouts for me? I noticed that Fifth Light Technologies of Oakville, Ontario, a company that has already received a funding round from SDTC in the past, is leading a consortium that’s hoping to demonstrate how Fifth Light’s approach to reducing energy consumption from fluorescent lighting (which also makes them dimmable) can also be applied to compact fluorescent lights, further increasing the energy savings from CFLs.

Nova Scotia Power Inc. is leading a new in-stream tidal energy project in the Bay of Fundy that’s expected to generate 1 MW of clean electricity.

Sonic Technology Solutions Inc., which I’ve written about before, is testing its high vibration “Sonoprocess” on PCBs to see if this method of soil remediation can become more economical if the byproduct of the process is salt and low-grade fuel.

Altek Power Corp. is testing a multi-fuel powered turbine engine that can use a variety of different biomass materials as fuel without harming engine performance. This could prove quite useful for distributed generation projects and for retrofitting fossil-fuel plants looking to co-fire coal/natural gas with biomass such as wood chip and corn.

Advanced Lithium Power Inc. is going to be demonstrating its lithium-ion battery pack for electric cars and plug-in hybrids.

6N Silicon Inc. has developed a low-cost, reduced-chemical silicon purification method for producing solar-grade silicon for the solar PV industry, and it hopes to advance development of its process.

As always, I’ll be exploring some of these projects over the coming months to provide more insight and details.

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