Call for Proposals: Artificial Intelligence for Canadian Energy Innovation 2026 – YOA

Deadline: December 4, 2025

Proposals are invited for the Artificial Intelligence for Canadian Energy Innovation 2026. The Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Canadian Energy Innovation Call for Proposals will fund utilized analysis, improvement and demonstration (RD&D) of AI options that speed up the tempo of, and decrease the prices related to, power know-how innovation. This Call goals to fund excessive-impression initiatives that catalyze nationwide experience to develop and use novel Canadian-made AI options to speed up home power innovation.

This Call will help initiatives that handle the impression assertion by assembly all three of the next name goals:

• Develop and use AI options to decrease the associated fee, time and/or power use of conventional strategies to advance new power improvements
• Bring collectively AI and power know-how innovators to advertise data trade
• Promote Canadian power knowledge availability, accessibility and safety throughout the power innovation ecosystem

Funding

• The Call is open to initiatives requesting a name contribution share as much as 75% of whole challenge prices. The minimal contribution from EIP is $500,000, and the utmost contribution is $1,500,000. Funding is on the market between April 1, 2026, by means of March 31, 2030.

Eligibility

Eligible Canadian Recipients will probably be:

• Legal entities validly included or registered in Canada together with:
  • For-profit and not-for-profit organizations
  • Community teams
  • Canadian educational establishments
• Provincial, territorial, regional and municipal governments and their departments and companies the place relevant.
• Indigenous:
  • Indigenous communities or governments
  • Tribal Councils or entities that fulfill an identical operate (e.g. common councils)
  • National or regional Indigenous councils, or tribal organizations
  • Indigenous (majority owned and managed by Indigenous folks) for-profit or not-for-profit organizations

Project Eligibility

In order to be eligible for funding by means of this Call for Proposals, utilized RD&D initiatives should meet the entire following standards:

• Develop an AI resolution and put it to use to speed up the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) development of a pre-business power resolution. The challenge should search to realize not less than one stage of TRL development for the power know-how/resolution.
  • Eligible AI options are envisioned to be unique and developed as part of challenge actions, however initiatives are permitted to construct on an current prototype, or make the most of an current resolution in a primary-of-a-sort application if it may be justified as being progressive within the subject.
  • Pre-commercial power options poised to learn from excessive-impression AI options are envisioned to begin round TRL 2-6. ‘Demonstration’ initiatives on this context refers to demonstrating the efficacy of the AI resolution in an utilized power innovation know-how setting – not deploying at scale demonstration of the power know-how/resolution.
• Demonstrate how the AI resolution is less expensive, time saving, and/or power environment friendly in comparison with standard innovation strategies for the focused pre-business power resolution.
• Have entry to, or personal, productive knowledge units upon the challenge begin date or have a plan to generate/gather productive knowledge units as part of early challenge actions.

Application

The Call’s challenge choice course of has two phases:

• Expression of Interest (EOI) part, open to all eligible candidates
• Full Project Proposal (FPP) part, open to invited candidates solely

To apply, candidates should full and submit their Expression of Interest (EOI) by way of the application portal by 1:00 p.m. ET on December 4, 2025.

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For extra data, go to Artificial Intelligence for Canadian Energy Innovation.