NorthX and BC Hydro are launching a $5M funding opportunity to advance Canadian technologies that can help manage electricity demand and support BC’s growing energy needs.
Powering BC’s clean electricity future BC’s electricity demand is entering a period of sustained, structural growth and peak demand is growing even faster than overall demand. Meeting those peaks efficiently means BC needs dispatchable flexibility: technology that can shift, store, and manage load at the moments the grid needs it
NorthX is investing $2.5 million in five women-led climate tech ventures moving Canadian innovations toward commercial scale.
Written by Isobel Farquharson The oppressive sepia skies above North American cities this summer are all too familiar to Canadians who have grown unwillingly accustomed to intensifying wildfire seasons. The hot, dry conditions forecast for BC could see another challenging week amid an already devastating season. Canada is warming twice
Converge 2026 takes place November 25th in Vancouver.
Turning breakthrough research into breakthrough companies Some of Canada’s most promising climate technologies begin in university labs. But the path from research to commercialization is often where great ideas stall. The NorthX University Call for Innovation helps bridge that gap by providing early-stage, non-dilutive funding to BC university ventures developing climate hard
Moment Energy scales EV battery repurposing with new Surrey factory
From pilot-scale cultivation to commercial production, learn how NorthX supported Cascadia Seaweed’s growth and expansion across British Columbia.
First published in Surrey Now Leader June 24, 2026 Written by Tom Zillich Moment Energy now operates what the company calls the world’s largest EV battery repurposing facility at a Bridgeview industrial building. The new facility, dubbed Megafactory 1, transforms retired EV batteries into “cost-effective, rapidly deployable energy storage systems
NorthX invests $3 million in Moment Energy to scale second-life battery storage deployments and help unlock BC’s growing energy storage market.