ACET empowers communities through co-designed energy projects that bring together experts from different disciplines and institutions in the public and private sector. Guided by local priorities and knowledge, each project is as unique as the communities they serve. Read more about them below.
Projects
Realizing the Energy Transition
The Realizing the Energy Transition project helps ensure that the shift to clean energy in Western Canada is fair for everyone - especially workers and communities that deepen on fossil fuel.
Cumberland District Energy Project
The Cumberland District Energy Project explores the potential for using warm water from abandoned, flooded coal mines to heat and cool buildings in the Village of Cumberland, B.C.
Northern Regional Energy Dialogues
The Northern Regional Energy Dialogues project supports energy transformation across northern B.C. by working directly with communities and First Nations to identify local energy needs, challenges and opportunities.
The Ulkatcho Solar Case Study
The Ulkatcho Solar Case Study is a Ulkatcho First Nation-led project to share the story of their Community Solar Farm—the largest community-owned solar project in North America.
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Land acknowledgement
We acknowledge and respect the Lək̓ʷəŋən (Songhees and Xʷsepsəm/Esquimalt) Peoples on whose territory the university stands, and the Lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ Peoples, the Musqueam people, the fourteen Yukon First Nations, Atikamekw and other Indigenous People on which ACET partner institutions stand, whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day.