Using artificial intelligence and machine learning to measure and locate methane emissions, and producing compressed natural gas for vehicles are two of the 20 projects getting a combined $58.4 million from the government through Emissions Reduction Alberta.
The Alberta government announced the finalists of the Natural Gas Challenge on Tuesday. The funding, first announced in October, comes from the Technology Innovation Emissions Reduction (TIER) program, paid for by a carbon tax on large emitters.
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Emissions Reduction Alberta (ERA) said it received 117 applications and chose20 to receive funding. Among them are Edmonton and Capital Power, which will get $10 million to upgrade landfill gas at Clover Bar Landfill and inject it into Alberta’s natural gas system as renewable natural gas.
Sustainitech, Inc will get $5 million to work with an oil and gas operation to build a modular farming system to grow crops, and ATCO Gas and Pipelines will get $7.9 million to produce renewable natural gas to be sold and used within the province in compressed natural gas fleet vehicles and commercial applications.