Industry
Grants

An industry grant for a startup to de-risk clean technology development is awarded through a peer review technical panel.

Overview

NGIF Industry Grants is an accelerator that offers a non-dilutive grant to startups that delivers solutions to the environment and other challenges facing the natural gas sector.

NGIF Industry Grants is unique as it brings Canada's energy industry leadership to every project a grant supports, helping startups derisk their clean technologies.
NGIF Industry Grants has strong connections to every part of the gas value chain, offering startups a means to test and develop clean technologies through field trials and pilots.
NGIF Industry Grants has been designed to work closely with our federal and provincial trusted partners.
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NGIF Contribution

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Total Eligible Project Costs

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Projects

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Reductions by 2030

Our Trusted
Partners

Our trusted partners are funding organizations with rigorous, fair and transparent due diligence processes and emissions reduction mandates comparable to NGIF.

Our Participants

Our participants are leading Canadian energy companies who are committed to driving cleantech innovation through startups with solutions for Canada’s natural gas sector.

Our Strategic
Areas

Our strategic areas are what guides NGIF funding decisions for clean technology based on our goals, risk tolerance and future needs for capital.
Hydrogen

  • Lower cost lower carbon hydrogen
  • Production, storage, and end-use

Renewable Natural Gas (RNG)

  • Advanced processing of feedstocks
  • Low-cost conversion and gas cleanup

Carbon Capture Storage and Utilization

  • Reduce carbon emissions and pull CO2 out of the atmosphere
  • Including Carbon sequestration, and utilization

Methane Mitigation

  • Reduce and eliminate methane emissions
  • Targeting natural gas assets

Emissions Monitoring

  • Emissions detection and measurement
  • Targeting natural gas value chain

Heat and Power Generation

  • Increase performance and reliability of heat and power generation systems
  • Targeting the natural gas value chain

Energy Efficiency

  • Improve energy efficiency of processes and equipment
  • Targeting the natural gas value chain

Fuel Switching

  • Switch to natural gas from high carbon-intensive fuels
  • CNG and LNG process optimization 

Natural Gas Production and Recovery

  •  Improve natural gas production
  • Increase performance of recovery operations 

Digital Transformation

  • ESG reporting and carbon management
  • Advanced sensors, analytics and machine learning

Transportation

  • Efficient natural gas engines, increased performance
  • CNG, LNG, H2 powered engines and fueling stations 

Value-Added Products

  • Natural gas to higher value-products
  • Targeting the natural gas value chain

Waste Heat Utilization

  • Efficient recovery of low-grade waste heat, improvements over ORC 
  • Geothermal for depleted gas wells  

Water Management

  • Effective treatment of flow back and produce water treatment
  • Reduce freshwater requirements 

Land Reclamation

  • Reduce land disturbances
  • Enable Land reclamation 

NGIF Industry
Grant Recipients

Our startup recipients with contracted and financed projects.
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Saad Sarfraz

Manager, Technology, Intake and Evaluation, NGIF Industry Grants

Ashutosh Pohary

Manager, Contract Lifecycle, NGIF Industry Grants

Ali Ali

Lead – Contracts and Partnerships, NGIF Industry Grants

Milan Karan

Lead, Systems Architecture and Administrator, NGIF Industry Grants

Samaneh Ashoori

Senior Analyst, Technology Evaluation, NGIF Industry Grants

Grant
Governance

Industry Grants governance includes an Innovation Committee that makes funding recommendations and an Investment Committee that makes funding decisions.

Investment Committees

Innovation Committees

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At NGIF, we invest in companies who are leading in the development of clean technologies for energy and who have the potential to demonstrate significant and quantifiable environmental and economic returns.

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