From Plans to Projects – Accelerating project-ready capacity for energy initiatives – Quest Canada
Feb 2, 2026
Across Atlantic Canada, communities, municipalities and Indigenous organizations face challenges to turn their energy transition plans into projects. Funding gaps, navigating regulatory and utility hurdles, competing priorities, limited support from decision-makers and residents, and a lack of subject matter expertise too often stall the process.
In early November 2025, QUEST Canada tackled this challenge with a two-day Project Initiation Workshop at the Halifax Convention Centre. The event brought together municipal staff representatives from the four Atlantic provinces, each ready to discuss a project in development.
With a shared goal of identifying practical steps to move community projects from vision into action, several organizations supported the workshop, with Clean Foundation providing facilitation and subject matter expertise in energy efficiency and transportation electrification.
