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Quantifying Emissions Reductions in Ships with Crowdsourced Weather Routing

December 2023 – March 2025

90% of the world's goods are transported by ships, which run on fossil fuel. This creates more greenhouse gas emissions than airlines.

Clean Tech » Emerging Concepts and Technologies Research Program

Exploring pathways to net-zero: utilizing advanced energy system modelling to investigate the impact of long-duration energy storage on Nova Scotia's energy transition

September 2023 – March 2025

This research project seeks to determine the potential role of long-duration energy storage in achieving a decarbonized electricity system in Nova Scotia by 2050.

Clean Tech » Emerging Concepts and Technologies Research Program

Reducing Greenhouse Gases and Improving the Carbon Sequestration Potential of Nova Scotia’s Wild Blueberry Industry

September 2023 – March 2025

Bragg Lumber Company is a Nova Scotia based food production and forestry company.  The company focuses on wild blueberry and carrot production.  The company owns or leases 48,000 acres of commercial fields and provides custom farm operations for an additional 10,000 acres of wild bluebe

Clean Tech » Emerging Concepts and Technologies Research Program

Development of a regionally validated mid-infrared soil spectral library and predictive models to enable efficient, accurate and low-cost characterization of soil carbon content and sequestration potential in Nova Scotia agricultural and forest soils

September 2023 – March 2025

Drawing upon existing and new agriculture and forestry soil collections acquired from diverse project partners (NSFA, NRCan, NSDA, OMAFRA, IRDA), this project will characterize soil organic carbon (SOC) content and storage potential, as influenced by inherent soil properties (e.g., soil texture)

Clean Tech » Pro-Climate Behaviours

Characterizing barriers to and opportunities for achieving pro-climate behaviours in Atlantic Canada

January 2023 – March 2025

Reducing emissions by changing how we act

Determining critical behavioural interventions for enabling an effective transition to net-zero emissions in Atlantic Canada’ is a multi-year research project being led by

Hydrogen

Decarbonizing Nova Scotia’s Industrial Sector with Green Hydrogen

March – December 2024

Three of Nova Scotia’s largest industrial manufacturers – Shaw, PHP, and Michelin – have formed a Decarbonization Working Group interested in investigating with NZA the feasibility and the GHG emission reduction potential of using hydrogen in industrial process heating.

Clean Tech » Energy Storage

Subsurface Energy Storage

March – November 2024

The project will explore the potential for subsurface energy storage in Nova Scotia.

Clean Tech » Wind

Capacity Building for the Sustainable and Inclusive Development of Nova Scotia's Offshore Wind Resource

March 2022 – November 2024

Offshore wind (OSW) remains an untapped renewable energy resource in Nova Scotia that has interest growing in the industry alongside the need for renewable energy sources.

Clean Tech

Net Zero Atlantic and the IBM Sustainability Accelerator

October 2022 – October 2024

The IBM Sustainability Accelerator program is designed to support organizations working on environmental sustainability projects by providing them with advanced technology, expertise, and financial resources. Net Zero Atlantic has been selected to receive this grant.

Clean Tech » Emerging Concepts and Technologies Research Program

Design and Construction of an On-Demand, Submerged Combustion, Direct-Contact Water Heater operating on Hydrogen for use in the Agricultural Sector

September 2023 – September 2024

Transitioning to a green hydrogen economy requires end-use applications. Some water heating units that currently operate on propane or natural gas may be able to safely operate on hydrogen-enriched natural gas mixtures (HENG) with up to 20–30% hydrogen with no modification.