The BC Marine Energy and Decarbonization Hub is a new joint initiative that will create pathways for the development and commercialization of cutting-edge marine renewable energy and decarbonization technologies in British Columbia, Canada.

The hub is a core initiative of COAST, which promotes Pacific Canada’s sustainable blue economy, delivered in partnership with the University of Victoria. The hub is the culmination of three decades of community-centered
clean energy research and innovation conducted at the University of Victoria by the Institute for Integrated Energy Systems, Pacific Regional Institute for Marine Energy Discovery, and Accelerating Community Energy Transformation.

The hub leverages existing infrastructure and capacity to offer ocean sector companies the opportunity to test and demonstrate technologies in coastal and marine test sites related to:

• Marine renewable energy capture
• Energy integration and management, including energy storage and grid integration
  technologies
• Innovative distribution and/or uses of energy, including production, storage and
  transmission of clean fuels

The hub will issue innovation challenges in partnership with key regional stakeholders. The first of these challenges will be issued in late 2025.

Learn more here.