Supporting Nunavik's Energy Transition

In Nunavik, fourteen communities generate their own electricity using diesel generators because they lack access to the power grid. Énergies Tarquti has an ambitious vision to change this situation and is already implementing wind and solar projects in several villages. We at Nergica are supporting them as a research partner.

Our role: to provide technical support for the implementation of these projects across the region, with the goal of reducing isolated communities’ dependence on diesel. In the field, we have helped commission weather towers, notably in Kuujjuaq, as well as deploy a lidar system powered by an autonomous power source. These instruments measure wind and solar resources, which is the first step toward properly sized projects.

One conviction guides this collaboration: in Nunavik, as elsewhere, no renewable energy project can endure without the commitment communities and training of a local workforce. We We therefore support Tarquti in its capacity building, a guarantee the long-term viability of facilities.

We are conducting In addition, with Tarquti and Hydro-Québec, a major project three-year research project funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council natural sciences and Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. Its goal: to improve the integration of renewable energy sources in taking into account the constraints specific to Nunavik—social, technical, economic, and climatic — which complicate the assessment and profitability of projects.

This initiative, led by the communities themselves, paves the way toward greater toward energy self-sufficiency in the North. Every pole installed, every person trained brings Nunavik closer to a cleaner and better locally controlled.