The Energy Innovation Program's Innovation Ecosystem Enablers stream supports projects that strengthen Canada's energy innovation ecosystem and accelerate the transition of innovative energy solutions from development to deployment.

Objectives:

• Strengthen Canada's capacity to develop and commercialize innovative energy solutions.
• Address gaps in shared infrastructure, technical capacity, market confidence, and policy and regulatory frameworks.
• Reduce reliance on foreign testing facilities and strengthen Canadian energy value chains.
• Support broadly accessible testing and validation infrastructure for energy innovators.

Eligible Projects
Projects must establish, expand, or modernize testing facilities that:

• Provide technology testing, validation, and performance verification services.
• Support demonstration, pilot testing, prototyping, and technology scale-up.
• Offer certification, standards testing, or system integration validation services.
• Address a demonstrated gap in Canada's energy innovation ecosystem.
• Provide services to external users beyond the facility owner.
• Demonstrate long-term operational sustainability.