3 B.C. clean-energy projects among $16M announced from feds<\/p>\n
Published 3:59 pm Tuesday, June 23, 2026<\/p>\n
Three clean-energy projects in B.C. are among the $16 million in funding announced by the federal government Tuesday (June 23).<\/p>\n
The federal government announced five projects would be getting the funding: three in B.C., one in the Yukon and one in the Northwest Territories.<\/p>\n
In B.C., the three projects are located in Penticton, Prince Rupert and Vanderhoof.<\/p>\n
The Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen is the recipient of the Penticton project funding, which is for renewable and electrification feasibility studies. The regional district is receiving $582,504.<\/p>\n
The project is described as a series of energy audits, demand-side review and renewable and electrification feasibility studies on 38 facilities within the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen.<\/p>\n
Metlakatla Development Corporation is the recipient for the Metlakatla Mount Hays Wind Project in Prince Rupert. The corporation received $2 million from the federal government.<\/p>\n
The project will focus on the feasibility stage for a proposed 100 per cent First Nation-owned 40-megawatt wind farm that will provide much needed electrical capacity to the Prince Rupert region.<\/p>\n
Saik\u2019uz First Nation is the recipient of $1.5 million for the Helhts\u2019i Power Project in Vanderhoof.<\/p>\n
The project will focus on pre-development activities for a proposed 200-megawatt wind farm, located 30 kilometres south of Vanderhoof, that will be Indigenous-led and majority-owned by the recipient.<\/p>\n
The Yukon project is receiving $7.5 million, while the Northwest Territories project is slated for $4.4 million.<\/p>\n
The funding follows a May 14 announcement for a planned National Electricity Strategy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"3 B.C. clean-energy projects among $16M announced from feds Published 3:59 pm Tuesday, June 23, 2026 Three clean-energy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":757040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[244562,903,49,48,79004,87674],"class_list":["post-757039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-bc-north","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-okanagan","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/757040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}