Ionic Solutions named one of Canada’s most investable cleantech ventures.
Media Release: November 7th 2024
Ionic Solutions has been named one of Foresight Canada’s most promising cleantech companies. The annual honours list from Canada’s largest cleantech innovation and adoption accelerator recognizes companies whose technology is poised for rapid growth and market adoption and will significantly impact climate change.
Ionic Solutions’ desalination technology, called Capacitive Electrodialysis Reversal (C-EDR), drastically reduces the power required to remove dissolved minerals (salts) from all kinds of water – converting up to 95% of drawn saline water into freshwater.
Ionic Solutions’ Executive Vice President, Jordan Grose, says the accolade is an important reminder of the relationship between water scarcity and climate change.
“As water scarcity continues to challenge communities and nations around the world, demand for desalination is growing at an unprecedented rate. But traditional methods of desalination are energy intensive and produce huge amounts of CO2. Ionic Solutions’ technology uses up to 90% less power while recovering more water, meaning far less greenhouse gases and huge cost incentives for our clients.”
Ionic Solutions’ technology is currently being piloted with major power suppliers in Canada and the United States. It can also be applied to the industrial, oil and gas, and data center cooling sectors and has been demonstrated municipally to remove hardness from drinking water.
“We’re thrilled to have the work of the Ionic Solutions’ team recognized by Foresight Canada,” continues Grose. “We are a small team, proud to be developing and manufacturing our product in Calgary. We are passionate about bringing our incredible desalination technology to those markets where we know it will have a global impact on water scarcity and climate change.”
While traditional methods of desalination rely on pumps creating high pressures to remove ions from water, Ionic Solutions’ patented technology uses a small electric current and ion-selective membranes to remove ions to clients’ specification.
Ionic Solutions is supported by the Industrial Research Assistance Program (IRAP), Next Generation Manufacturing Canada (NGen), Alberta Innovates, and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI).
We are currently seeking investors and partners with a passion for game changing cleantech and impactful deep tech.
