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Prairie Clean Energy Launches Crowdfunding Campaign
June 11, 2024
Prairie Clean Energy (PCE) announced today the exciting launch of our crowdfunding campaign with FrontFundr, Canada’s leading online private markets investing platform. PCE is looking to raise the final $1.5M raise to buy 3 tonne/hour equipment for our existing facility in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. Visit PCE’s FrontFundr’s page to view PCE’s brand story.
“With $1.2M already secured, we are opening up our fundraising to the general public to have an opportunity to share in PCE’s impactful bioenergy future…and to help resource the bioeconomy through the use of unutilized agricultural waste,” says Mark Cooper, PCE’s President & CEO.
AgCanadaTV
July 26, 2024
“Prairie Clean Energy is more than willing to take that flax straw off your hands for a range of uses”
Chief Strategy Officer Brita Lind attended the 2024 Ag in Motion event and shared insights on AgCanadaTV about Prairie Clean Energy’s impactful initiatives. Brita highlighted how PCE enables farmers to earn dual incomes from a single crop and PCE is expanding into worldwide markets with flax pellets.
FrontFundr
July 18, 2024
Prairie Clean Energy’s crowdfunding campaign on FrontFundr has achieved 80% of its target, bringing them one step closer to their goal. CEO, Mark Cooper recently sat down with FrontFundr expert Trieste to discuss the latest developments at PCE.
“Praire Clean Energy (PCE) is changing the bioeconomy landscape in North America and the world by doing what no one else is doing – harnessing the millions of tonnes of excess agricultural waste on the Canadian and American Prairies.”
SaskBroker Magazine
Spring 2024
There is simply no place quite like Saskatchewan when it comes to Prairie Clean Energy. Mark Cooper, CEO of PCE says, “as PCE grows into the multi-national large scale company that we can become, we will always remain headquartered here in Saskatchewan. That’s not a product of chance but of choice.”
SaskBroker’s Magazine, “All in on Saskatchewan,” features an article written by Mark Cooper. In this piece, Mark reflects on his upbringing in Saskatchewan and the profound impact it has had on shaping his personal journey and the vision of Prairie Clean Energy. He provides a summary of what PCE does and emphasizes why the province is the perfect home for the company.
CKRM The Voice of Saskatchewan
June 17, 2024
Saskatchewan-based company, Prairie Clean Energy was featured on the CKRM The Voice of Saskatchewan radio station.
PCE is embarking on a crowdfunding campaign with a goal to raise $1.5 million, and so far has raised over $930-thousand through Front Fundr, an online private market investing platform.
CEO, Mark Cooper explains that through Front Fundr, the average person can join our exciting journey by making a minimum investment of just five hundred dollars.
Western Producer
June 14, 2024
Saskatchewan-based company, Prairie Clean Energy is featured in the Western Producer, the largest agricultural magazine in Western Canada. CEO Mark Cooper and Founder Trevor Thomas share the story of the founding of Prairie Clean Energy and elaborate on PCE’s strategy for achieving success.
“PCE has big plans to convert flax straw into pellets. The pellets will be processed at a plant in Regina and sold to industrial, commercial and residential customers for heat and power generation.”
Biomass Magazine
March 4, 2024
Prairie Clean Energy has transitioned from proof of concept to minimum viable product to being named by the Vienna Institute as one of the top 10 clean energy companies to watch in the world in 2023—all in rapid succession. With financial support from Innovation Saskatchewan under a Saskatchewan Advantage Innovation Fund project and a $1.1 million grant from the Mining Innovation Commercialization Accelerator, the company and its academic partners successfully developed a proprietary flax straw pellet production process, which is patent pending, and they are now working on a second patent application.
Last year, Prairie Clean Energy evolved to purchasing flax straw from farmers and producing flax pellets in 2023 at a tolled facility to test logistics, process and product readiness.
600 CJWW
January 20, 2024
In the future, flax pellets might be used as the main form of heating in the potash industry thanks to a collaboration between Saskatchewan Polytechnic and Regina-based company, Prairie Clean Energy.
Dr. Robin Smith with Sask. Polytechnic says the goal of the collaboration is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by replacing the use of natural gas with bioheat, generated by burning locally acquired flax pellets.
Penticton Herald
January 19, 2024
Earlier this year Saskatchewan-based business, Prairie Clean Energy, received a $1.1 million grant from the Mining Innovation Commercialization Accelerator (MICA) Network for their innovative greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction project. The project aims to revolutionize the potash industry by utilizing locally produced agricultural waste in the form of flax straw to generate low carbon bioheat, potentially reducing GHG emissions by up to 80 percent.
DiscoverMooseJaw.com
January 12, 2024
Prairie Clean Energy has teamed up with Saskatchewan Polytechnic in a project to turn the province’s agricultural waste into low carbon bioheat.
The Mining Innovation Commercialization Accelerator (MICA) Network gave Prairie Clean Energy a grant for $1.1 million for a research project seeking to create heat from flax straw that would otherwise be a waste product.
Prairie Clean Energy is working together on the project with Saskatchewan Polytechnic’s applied research centre, known as Sustainability-Led Integrated Centres of Excellence (SLICE).
MooseJawToday.com
January 10, 2024
In collaboration with Saskatchewan-based business Prairie Clean Energy, Saskatchewan Polytech will develop a “living lab” pilot operation at an agricultural site near Moose Jaw to serve as a testing ground for the viability of using prairie biomass to generate industrial heat.
The project will draw on a $1.1 million grant that Prairie Clean Energy received from the Mining Innovation Commercialization Accelerator (MICA) Network for its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction project.
620 CKRM
October 17, 2023
A Saskatchewan-based company that focuses on providing sustainable and clean prairie-based biomass fuel, wants to buy flax straw from farmers.
CEO of Prairie Clean Energy Mark Cooper says they’re buying between 6-thousand to 54-thousand tons of straw at a time, within a 100-kilometre radius around Regina and a 75-kilometre radius around Gilbert Plains, Manitoba.
It’s part of their plan to scale up production of flax pellets.
Startupville Podcast
August 23, 2023
Prairie Clean Energy is one of Saskatchewan’s most exciting new cleantech startups because of its game-changing approach to providing an environmentally sustainable solution to agricultural waste.
Prairie Clean Energy recently received $180,000 from the Saskatchewan Advantage Innovation Fund (SAIF) to support the development of a technically viable pathway in Saskatchewan for producing and using flax straw pellets as industrial biomass fuel. This solution addresses the global biomass shortage and provides farmers with an economical and environmentally conscious way to use flax waste.
SaskToday.ca
August 10, 2023
Saskatchewan-based business, Prairie Clean Energy (PCE), has announced they will start buying flax straw from Canadian farmers on the prairies this fall as the company starts its first foray into scaling up production of its flax pellets.
PCE will be purchasing flax straw within a 75-kilometre radius around both Regina and Gilbert Plains, Man., where the company has leased time at a facility for the initial production of the company’s proprietary flax pellets.
Canadian Biomass
August 8, 2023
Saskatchewan-based business, Prairie Clean Energy (PCE), is excited to announce they will start buying flax straw from Canadian farmers on the prairies this fall as the company starts its first foray into scaling up production of its flax pellets.
PCE will be purchasing flax straw within a 75-kilometre radius around both Regina and Gilbert Plains, MB, where the company has leased time at a facility for the initial production of the company’s proprietary flax pellets. PCE will be buying anywhere from 6,000 to 54,000 tonnes of flax straw, the range being wide as the company works on production projections and growth plans into 2024.
“We’re thrilled to say we’re now producing pellets and moving from being a Saskatchewan start-up success story into a revenue-producing Saskatchewan success story,” said Mark Cooper, PCE’s CEO and president, adding, “We knew the time was right to start buying straw now as all our hard work, relationship building, and research over the past few years has led to this market opportunity.”
Farms.com
August 9, 2023
Prairie Clean Energy (PCE) has a vision that turning underused flax straw from the Canadian prairies into sustainable pellets for diverse uses. This company from Saskatchewan said they will start buying this straw soon to begin making their special pellets.
The company is looking for flax straw in two main areas; Regina and Gilbert Plains, MB, within a 75-km radius of each location. Based on the firm’s growth and production outlook for 2024, PCE anticipates buying between 6,000 and 54,000 tonnes of this valuable straw.
Biomass Magazine
June 27, 2023
Saskatchewan-based business, Prairie Clean Energy (PCE), is thrilled to announce they have been awarded a $1.1 million grant from the Mining Innovation Commercialization Accelerator (MICA) Network for their GHG emissions reduction project utilizing prairie biomass. Of the 24 projects receiving MICA funding, PCE was the only Saskatchewan recipient. This MICA grant provides yet another opportunity for the fast-growing bioenergy company.
By using PCE’s proprietary, patented flax straw pellets to help heat potash mines, the carbon intensity of heat consumption in these mines can be reduced drastically. PCE’s chief product and supply chain development officer, Mahmood Ebadian, suggests, “This technology has the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by up to 80 percent when used to displace fossil fuels for industrial process heating.” Meanwhile PCE president and CEO, Mark Cooper, states, “The $1.1 million grant will help PCE continue to drive an energy revolution around the world through the use of our local prairie biomass.”
980 CJME
February 2, 2023
Saskatchewan’s trade and export development minister is to lead a delegation to Japan and South Korea this week to explore new trade opportunities.
Jeremy Harrison will be leading the delegation, the provincial government announced Thursday. The mission will focus on promoting natural resources like uranium and helium, and will also “highlight the importance of partnerships in food security and energy transition.”
Mark Cooper, CEO of Prairie Clean Energy, will also be joining the delegation. He said the mission is an opportunity to further Saskatchewan’s role as a leader in sustainable bioenergy.
“Saskatchewan is one of the most sustainable farmers on Earth and we need to capitalize on the opportunity,” Cooper said in a statement.
Regina Leader-Post
May 3, 2022
Prairie Clean Energy CEO and President Mark Cooper says Saskatchewan could fill a void because the war in Ukraine has halted biomass exports from Russia. With the war in Ukraine, he said, companies across Europe are eagerly looking for the product because they can no longer source it from Russia.
“The number of requests for meetings has been overwhelming,” said Cooper, the CEO and president of Prairie Clean Energy, during a phone interview from London, U.K. last week. “All of that is very encouraging for us. Their demand is exceedingly high. And their interest in working with stable, reliable government is really high, too.”
Cooper spent the last week of April promoting Saskatchewan biomass in London.
West Central Online
January 25, 2022
Saskatchewan-based bioenergy company, Prairie Clean Energy (PCE), welcomed representatives from Japan’s largest renewable energy developer – RENOVA Inc. – to Regina last week for important talks.
The meetings with RENOVA Inc. highlight the global interest in PCE’s momentum in the bioenergy space, and demonstrate the high-level of demand for a fully renewable and sustainable biomass fuel source like flax straw.
Innovation Saskatchewan
December 7, 2021
Prairie Clean Energy is excited to announce we have been awarded a grant through the Saskatchewan Advantage Innovation Fund (SAIF) and Agtech Growth Fund (AGF).
Through the SAIF and AGF programs, the Government of Saskatchewan is investing in six innovative Saskatchewan companies from the province’s core economic sectors.
discoverweyburn.com
July 26, 2020
There may be a solution for what to do with flax straw other than burning it that could make prairie farmers money.
Prairie Clean Energy, a Saskatchewan based company, is processing and selling flax straw for biomass fuel to Canadian and global customers.
Canada Biomass Magazine
Winter 2021
An inside look at the efforts of a Saskatchewan-based start-up to produce biofuel from flax straw.
Western Farmer
August 20, 2020
There are more than 4,000 biomass power plants in the world and they can’t find the fuel they need to meet demand, says PrairieClean Energy. The company believes it has a prairie-made solution
Weyburn Review
July 30, 2020
A Saskatchewan company, Prairie Clean Energy of Regina, has found a way to take the thousands of tonnes of Saskatchewan flax straw that gets burned or trashed on the prairies every year and turn it into something that can provide income to farmers and sustainable growth for rural Saskatchewan.
discoverweyburn.com
July 28, 2020
The need for biomass fuel has been steadily climbing over the past few years. In the past coal was used for factories before moving over to biomass fuel which used wood in order to better protect the environment.
Farms.com
July 28, 2020
There may be a solution for what to do with flax straw other than burning it that could make prairie farmers money.