Summerside is widely recognized as a leader and early adopter of green technologies. Our unique municipally-owned infrastructure, combined with a business environment that encourages innovation, distinguishes us from other communities in Canada.
Submit Your SolutionThe City of Summerside located on Prince Edward Island is seeking innovative ideas that support the City’s pursuit to serve its residents, visitors, tourists and commuters with convenient charging systems for electric vehicles. The City owns and operates a municipal electric utility and generates the majority of its energy from renewable sources — solar and wind.
The Province of Prince Edward Island has announced that by 2035, 100 percent of light-duty vehicle sales in the Province will be zero-emission vehicles. It is reasonable to forecast that the majority of the light vehicle ownership in the Province will be electric over the next 10–15 years.
The City is interested in supporting, partnering, investing, and supplying renewable power to novel charging solutions/systems for electric vehicles including power networks, using vehicle-to-grid, battery storage, community charging technologies, wireless charging, autonomous drive technology and over-the-air connectivity.
The Summerside Xchange Accelerator administrates the Challenge Program on behalf of the City of Summerside. We help innovation companies increase their chance of commercialization success.
The City of Summerside is located in the Province of Prince Edward Island, on the east coast of Canada. Summerside is a small but innovative city with a significant level of open enabling infrastructure in which companies thrive. It is ideal for testing and development of scalable and exportable technology.
The City, in addition to owning and operating a municipal electrical utility, has invested in the following infrastructure over the past 16 years on its path to net-zero:
The City over the past two decades has partnered with a large number of innovative companies in developing, validating and testing new innovative technologies — to see additional case studies please visit the website in many cases becoming the “first or only” partner with technology lead businesses seeking to expand into the North American marketplace.
The City of Summerside is located in the Province of Prince Edward Island (PEI), Canada and is aligned with the Provincial Net Zero Plan 2040 — for more information please see www.princeedwardisland.ca/en/publication/2040-net-zero-framework
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Summerside is widely recognized as a leader and early adopter of green technologies. Our unique municipally-owned infrastructure, combined with a business environment that encourages innovation, distinguishes us from other communities in Canada.
A commitment to sustainable development and technologies is a driving force in the policies of the City of Summerside. Our businesses and residents expect it. Sustainability makes both fiscal and environmental sense. It is a pillar of our approach to renewable initiatives and economic development in our community.
The City of Summerside is looking ahead to more innovation in the clean technology sector by building on the infrastructure already developed. Across North America, communities look to Summerside as a best practice model for leveraging sustainable net-zero development as an integral part of an economic development strategy.
The City of Summerside is located in the Province of Prince Edward Island, Canada and is aligned with the Provincial Net Zero Plan 2040—for more information please visit the website.