Case Study
CIRNAC
Decarbonizing the Far North
Place: Nunavut, Northwest Territories, Nunavik (QC), Nunatsiavut (NL), Yukon
Date: 2018
Client: CIRNAC
Key Words: Decarbonization Plan, Community, Renewable Energy, Climate Change, Clean technology, Arctic
The challenge
In 2018, SG2B Inc. was approached by the CIRNAC government to develop 74 decarbonization plans for Northern Inuit communities in the Canadian Arctic. The objective was to find solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and in particular to reduce the consumption of diesel used in electricity generation and space heating.
The solution
SG2B started by modeling the energy needs and electricity generation for each community. Based on the results, SG2B conducted a technical and economic study for 12 selected technologies: solar photovoltaic, wind, biomass, heat recovery, micro-hydro turbine. Each technology was simulated according to local community conditions such as energy demand, wind quality, river power, and solar radiation.
SG2B compared and selected the most suitable technologies for each community to develop a unique decarbonization plan per village. These plans were used to estimate the whole cost of decarbonization in the Far North.