Your community could qualify to host a pilot project
Some of the most promising clean technology in the world is looking for one thing: a real community, in real Canadian conditions, to prove itself in. Hosting a pilot puts your community first in line, on your terms, with the risk carried by the companies and the testing partners instead of by you.
Where the technology comes from
Canadian institutions and startups
Universities, colleges, and cleantech companies across Canada are developing cold-climate energy, water, and food technology that is ready for its first real-world deployments. What they lack is a community partner. What they bring is research funding, engineering support, and equipment at little or no cost to the host.
Proven abroad, new to Canada
Technology already established in the European Union and elsewhere, from district heating to water treatment to modular housing, needs Canadian reference sites before it can sell here. First communities to host become the reference customer: best pricing, direct manufacturer relationships, and a say in how the product adapts to northern conditions.
Benefits to community
First access, years early
Pilot hosts use technology before it reaches the market, at pilot pricing or no cost, instead of paying full price years later.
Infrastructure that stays
Pilot equipment is typically left in place when the trial ends. The community keeps the working system, and we keep supporting it.
Training and local jobs
Every pilot comes with paid roles: installation, monitoring, maintenance. Skills stay in the community after the pilot ends.
Data the community owns
Performance data is gathered on your land, so it belongs to the Nation under OCAP principles. Companies get access by agreement, not by default.
A voice in the design
Pilot feedback changes products. Hosts shape how technology adapts to northern life before it is locked in for everyone else.
Revenue when it works
Technology that proves itself graduates into our systems and packages. Host communities can share in what follows: demonstration visits, training delivery, and reseller revenue.
Tested before it ever reaches the community
Nothing arrives untested, and nothing is hosted without a way out. Our partnerships with universities, polytechnics, and other institutions put the technology through its paces first, and only what passes moves on to a community pilot.
What the community gets
- Equipment vetted before it arrives
- Written agreement: scope, duration, and who pays for what
- Training and support for the life of the pilot
- A clear exit: if it underperforms, it is removed or replaced at no cost to the community
- Funding sourced before the pilot starts
What the company and partners carry
- Equipment cost, shipping, and installation
- Engineering support and warranty through the pilot
- Research and pilot funding applications
- Performance risk: proving it works is their job, not yours
- Removal and site restoration if the pilot ends
How a pilot project progresses
We screen it
Does it solve a problem our communities have named: heat, power, water, food, fire?
One of our partners tests it
Bench testing such as cold-chamber trials, and applied research before any community has invested a thing.
A community chooses to host
We match a passing technology with a community whose need fits. Leadership reviews the agreement and decides.
The pilot runs, with support
Local people are hired and trained to install and monitor. We handle the funding paperwork and stay on call.
What works goes in the store
Proven technology enters the systems library with training, support, and funding attached. The host community becomes the reference every other community can trust.
What a good host looks like
The technology addresses a problem the community has named, not hosting for hosting's sake.
Someone on the ground who wants to run it and see it succeed.
Council willing to review and sign a written pilot agreement.
A building, a stretch of shoreline, a few homes, or a worksite to host the equipment.
Willingness to say what worked and what did not.
Interest in the training and paid roles that come with hosting.
Now seeking a host community
A live example of the kind of technology moving through the pipeline right now.
Curious about what pilot project opportunities there are?
Tell us the problem your community wants solved and we will tell you what is being tested, what is proven, and what a pilot would look like on your land. No pressure, no obligation.
Come talk to us