The activities are developed cooperatively, and are co-managed and cost shared with industry and other stakeholders, such as gas and electric utilities, other governments, and equipment manufacturers.
CETC’s contributions are repayable from revenues or cost savings realized from successful projects. There are four components to the program:
Sector Studies identify the existing, new and emerging energy technologies specific to particular industry sectors, and rank them with respect to energy efficiency improvement, environmental impact and productivity improvement. This ranked list should form the groundwork for that sector’s energy R&D activities for the next twenty years.
Technology Assesments are detailed evaluations of individual opportunities technologies, energy benefits, environmental impacts, potential markets, and the economics of R&D. They describe the implementation. They identify the R&D activities and the participants needed to bring the technologies to commercial acceptance.
Examples of these activities are the development and testing, with pilot plants or prototypes, of opportunities evaluated by the assessments.
Field Trials are full scale, first time Canadian applications of new technologies in an industrial environment, for the evaluation of their operating performances, energy efficiency improvements and reduced environmental impacts.
New Brunswick Contact(s):
See National Contact.