Natural Resources committee  Thank you for the question. Feel free to guide me. I was in Germany in March as part of a Canadian delegation. There's a strong desire from the EU—not only Germany and Belgium, but other countries—to secure hydrogen from Canada. Canadian hydrogen can be very competitive. I can m

Natural Resources committee  Thank you for the question. It was a pleasure to meet you in person in Germany. Both uses are quite important to the Canadian economy, in fact. Anchor projects at home are really important to develop the ecosystem and to develop the experiences and the learnings from those proj

Natural Resources committee  Thank you for the invitation to speak today. My name is Ivette Vera-Perez. I'm the president and CEO of the Canadian Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association, or CHFCA. We are the national voice for the hydrogen sector in Canada, representing approximately 200 companies across the hyd

International Trade committee  That's a very good question. My position is always that we're here to help. We're here to provide the knowledge and wisdom from the members and the tools that the members bring to the table. Hydrogen is a tremendous opportunity for Canada in decarbonizing the economy. Let's get t

International Trade committee  That was part of my reflection after Stephenville. Canada has a tremendous tradition on the electrolyzer manufacturing front and on the fuel cell front. This is where the electrolyzer was developed: It was in Canada. A lot of the cluster companies in the British Columbia area com

International Trade committee  Yes, August 16 was a very busy day for us in the sector. Right away we started reaching out to government, to Natural Resources Canada and to different departments, and we filed a pre-budget feedback letter. I wish the reaction had been quicker, but let's hope that this is becau

International Trade committee  Thank you very much. It's a pleasure to meet you. I live in your riding. First you asked about expanding on the news from the fall economic statement. The news is in general good. It's a good first step, but that's what it is—a first step. Right now lots of the conversations a

International Trade committee  Good morning, Madam Chair and members of the committee. Thank you for the invitation to speak here today. My name is Ivette Vera-Perez. I am the president and CEO of the Canadian Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association, or the CHFCA. We represent over 160 companies at all stages of t

Environment committee  Yes, there is. We have been advocating for that. There is one company, one electrolyzer producer in Canada, that has also opened offices in Houston. They are advocating very heavily to be allowed to build an electrolyzer gigafactory in Canada, and it could be the first. They have

Environment committee  Partly, it's the possibilities that the Inflation Reduction Act brings. Part of it is that there's a lot more of an appetite for risk-taking, if you will, in this case in the U.S. We're talking about this example: Just this week, Plug Power, which is one of our members, unveiled

Environment committee  No, not necessarily. Supply chains are tight in general. Since the pandemic, world supply chains have.... I think we've realized how fragile we are, in a way. I don't think it's the lack of support; it's that the support is a little bit disjointed and in many different pockets. I

Environment committee  It can be achieved, and I'm not saying this in an optimistic, unrealistic way. It can be achieved, but we need to work to get there. Depending on the colour—and I must say that we celebrate all colours of hydrogen—if we're thinking about electrolyzer-produced hydrogen, there's t

Environment committee  Yes, I mean from investors, from the government—the DOE, for example—and from venture capital. This is an industry that in VC terms is a hardware industry, meaning there's capex and there are things that we build. It's not an app. It's not software. We need to understand that th

Environment committee  Yes, absolutely. Alberta is leading the charge on hydrogen as well. There are the hydrogen centres of excellence in Alberta. There is $50 million being put into hydrogen and into development pathways to clean hydrogen through CCUS as well.

Environment committee  I do believe the federal government is very interested. I do believe that a lot of what we're lacking or what we're needing is around funding that is dedicated to help the scale-up of a new industry to the scale that we're talking about. Here we're developing a new industry at