Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Demonstration (EVID) Program

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Grant Description

A clean environment and a strong economy go hand-in-hand. To advance Canada’s efforts to build a clean economy, Budget 2017 proposed investments in green infrastructure, including initiatives that will support the implementation of the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change.


Modern energy infrastructure is essential to clean growth, but in key areas, uncertainty around the risks and costs of emerging technologies is stalling their development. The Green Infrastructure Phase II – EVID Program, will accelerate the market entry of next generation clean energy infrastructure, such as innovative electric vehicle (EV) charging and hydrogen (H2) refuelling technologies, by investing a portion of its funding into commercial-scale technology demonstrations.


Budget 2017 allocated up to $30M to the EVID Program from April 1, 2018 to March 31, 2022 to continue to support demonstrations of next-generation and innovative EV charging infrastructure projects that address technical and non-technical barriers to the installation, operation and management of EV charging technologies. This RFP will allocate up to $15M towards non-repayable contributions for both EV charging and H2 refuelling infrastructure demonstration projects.

 

Eligibility Requirements

To be an eligible applicant:

  • Eligible proponents are legal entities validly incorporated or registered in Canada, including utilities, companies, industry associations, research associations, aboriginal and community groups, Canadian academic institutions, and provincial, territorial, regional and municipal governments and their departments and agencies. Proof of legal status in Canada is required at the proposal stage.

 

Program funds may be directed to the following kinds of demonstration activities:

  • The permanent (for the normal life of the equipment) installation of a pre-commercial technology with the intent that it continues to operate in its intended operational environment for a minimum of 5 years after the completion of the project.
  • Permanent modification of existing processes, equipment, or systems to accommodate an innovative technology or process and that is directly related to the demonstration;
  • The permanent installation of equipment and/or infrastructure that supports and is directly related to the demonstration, or multiple demonstrations.

 

Eligibility Activities

Projects that will lead to the adoption of Advanced Automation or Manufacturing Technology that support the following outcomes:

  • Allow businesses to shift away from labour-intensive work practices or processes to help prevent the exposure and transmission of COVID-19, and
  • Address at least one of the following labour-related project impacts:
    • Allow business to focus redeployment of workers to higher value-added activities
    • Reduce the ongoing labour shortage pressures in the sector
    • Attract more highly skilled labour to businesses within the sector
    • Increase the productivity

     

Projects that may be eligible for Farm business applicants:

  • Adoption and integration of an automated rack handling system and seeding machines in a greenhouse setting
  • Adoption and use of a fully automated optical grading system with visually guided robotics for the grading and sorting of vegetables replacing manual grading/sorting
  • Adoption of solar powered autonomous robotic vineyard pruning robots with optical/spectral guidance systems in place of manual pruning
  • Adoption of semi-autonomous or autonomous self-propelled transplanters replacing manual/mechanical processes where distancing employees is difficult


Projects that may be eligible for Processor business applicants:

  • Installation and training staff on the use of a robotic deboning machine for whole chicken legs replacing labour intensive manual cutting and deboning stations
  • Adoption and use of a fully automated optical packing system with visually guided robotics for the sorting and packing of product replacing manual packing/sorting

Funding Level(s)

Up to 50% of total project costs per project to a maximum of $3000,000 

Purpose

Demonstration projects under the EVID Program will address barriers to the deployment of EV charging infrastructure and H2 refuelling infrastructure, which will lead to an increased uptake of zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs). ZEVs are defined as plug-in hybrid EVs, battery EVs, and H2 fuel cell vehicles.

Source: https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/climate-change/green-infrastructure-programs/electric-vehicle-infrastructure-demonstrations-evid/green-infrastructure-phase-ii-electric-vehicle-infrastructure-demonstration-program-request/22157 http://www.omafra.gov.on.ca/english/about/agritechinnovation.htm

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