Ground has been broken on a new clean technology project, which the P.E.I. government plans to make the future home of clean innovation in the province. 

A 60-acre zone of tax-free land will be provided for clean technology companies as a destination and will include a 55,000-square-foot learning centre which will house the clean tech academy. 

The idea for the park has been in the works since 2019 after Environment, Energy and Climate Action Minister Steven Myers visited the Samsø Energy Academy in Denmark, a leading research facility in the global fight against climate change. 

“The centre of the whole transition in Samsø was based on their energy academy which is where the experts of the changes were housed,” Myers told SaltWire Network during an interview on Feb. 15. 

“We started looking at what an energy academy could look like on P.E.I.,” he said. 

The clean tech academy, as it is currently being called, will offer programs in clean tech education through a joint initiative with Holland College and UPEI, where students can receive a master’s degree upon graduation. 

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