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Empowering communities through clean energy

ACET collaborates with communities seeking to accelerate their energy transformation by co-creating equitable and resilient clean energy solutions that create new economic opportunities and strengthen local autonomy. 

Building community resilience

By developing locally integrated  and diverse energy systems, ACET boosts community resilience against extreme weather, supply disruptions and energy price fluctuations. Innovations in technology and smart infrastructure accelerate this transformation by making energy systems future-ready. 

40
partners, including 5 First Nations
15
years of community-based energy transition projects
9
interdisciplinary areas of expertise
Eighteen individuals of various ages and backgrounds pose for a group photo beneath a mural painted in the traditional Haisla style.

Northern voices lead energy conversations

A first-of-its-kind effort to understand the energy aspirations of communities across northern BC has sparked new conversations that will help shape the next decade of clean energy development in the province.

Waves crash over a jagged rock formation jutting out of the ocean off Nootka Island

The power of waves

CBC Producer Camille Vernet travelled to Nootka Island with UVic researchers to learn how the power of wave energy could help bring the Mowachaht-Muchalaht First Nation back home to the remote ancestral village of Yuquot.

Photo: Radio-Canada | Camille Verne

Curran Crawford stands smiling with Brad Buckham with ACET ocean energy survey tech in the background

Fostering sustainable energy transformation

ACET Executive Director Curran Crawford (left) believes an interdisciplinary approach is crucial to implementing sustainable energy systems that are reliable, cost effective and community driven.

Participants of the Community Energy Systems Course in Old Crow, Yukon, March 2023. Participants stand next to rows of solar panels surrounded by snow.

One giant leap closer to net zero

Learn how ACET will support clean energy transformations in remote and Indigenous communities.

Vuntut Gwitchin Government and YukonU train Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation citizens on community energy systems in Old Crow.

Photo: Yukon University

Research areas

Low-carbon & offshore renewable energy tech

Harness, use and store renewables including wave, tidal, hydrogen and offshore wind energy

Distributed systems and hybrid microgrids

Develop advanced microgrid controls, systems integration and management

Green hydrogen and e-fuels

Develop low-cost, safe and clean hydrogen and other e-fuel vectors

Business & finance innovation

Innovate finance and business models, and explore social enterprise potential

Integrated energy systems

Complex systems, place-based transitions, worldviews, policy interactions, Indigeneity

Scale-up and acceleration

Create transformation strategies scalable to communities worldwide

Academic partners

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