Building Canada Strong

Pacific Decarbonized Energy Corridor

Canada's largest clean-hydrogen corridor, starting at the Burrard Thermal site.

PDEC is BC's hydrogen production corridor. An anchor facility at the decommissioned Burrard Thermal Generating Station in Port Moody supplies a centralized fuelling hub adjacent to Waterfront Station in downtown Vancouver, serving twenty-six offtaker applications across transit, marine, port operations, rail, aviation, and defense. A parallel Vancouver Island site at the Crofton mill is in consideration to extend the corridor.

Executive Briefing View the System Crofton / Vancouver Island

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23,235

kg H2 per day

26 offtaker applications

87,538

tonnes CO2 displaced per year

Well-to-wheel basis

$1.39B

20-year NPV

At 5% discount rate

32.7M

litres diesel displaced per year

Across all offtaker sectors

Why this, why now

The Trans Mountain Expansion proved that Pacific export infrastructure transforms Canada's bargaining position, reducing U.S. oil dependency from 97% to 84% in under two years. PDEC applies the same principle to hydrogen: clean fuel produced from BC's existing natural gas and hydroelectric infrastructure, exported through VFPA deep-water berths to the same Asia-Pacific markets now buying Canadian crude. U.S. tariffs and trade uncertainty make diversification an economic imperative, not a policy aspiration. At $5.80/kg, clean hydrogen is already cheaper than diesel-equivalent fuel costs ($10-12/kg) for heavy-duty marine, rail, and port applications - competitive on cost alone, without any carbon pricing.

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Trade Diversification

Export-ready hydrogen via VFPA deep-water berths to allies seeking democratic-origin clean fuel.

Japan - national hydrogen import strategy

South Korea - POSCO green steel transition

Germany - industrial decarbonization demand

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Energy Security

Existing FortisBC pipeline at Burrard Thermal. No new pipeline construction required.

Input: $2/GJ natural gas (~$0.11/kg H2)

Output: $7-9/kg hydrogen + $4.50/kg carbon

Result: $0.11 in, $11-14 out - 21x

Federal Alignment

National strategy and seven federal instruments:

✓ NRCan Hydrogen Strategy - regional hub model

✓ Building Canada Act - MPO designation

✓ $5B Trade Diversification Corridor Fund

✓ Clean Hydrogen ITC - 15-40% CapEx

✓ CIB - $337M HTEC precedent

✓ Sustainable Jobs Act

✓ CBAM - competitive advantage

Provincial Alignment

Three BC frameworks supporting regional hydrogen hubs:

✓ BC Hydrogen Strategy - regional hubs

✓ CleanBC - clean fuel mandates

✓ DRIPA - Indigenous rights framework

The infrastructure problem, solved

Every previous hydrogen project in Canada was built for one customer. Purpose-built infrastructure serving a single application cannot achieve the utilization rates needed to justify the capital. The result: stranded assets, undersized supply, and projects that prove the technology works but fail commercially. PDEC takes a different approach.

Every other project

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Single offtaker

One customer bears the full infrastructure cost. If they walk, the project dies.

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Purpose-built

New site, new permits, new grid connection, new pipeline. Years of delay, tens of millions before first hydrogen.

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Supply-constrained

Undersized production from off-site facilities. The technology works, but supply cannot scale to meet demand.

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No redundancy

One production pathway. When supply fails, every downstream application stops.

PDEC systems approach

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26 prospective offtakers, shared infrastructure

Costs amortized across transit, marine, port, rail, aviation, and defense. No single application exceeds 25% of modelled demand.

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Existing industrial campus

Burrard Thermal has grid, gas, port, and rail already built. $10-20M in day-one savings vs greenfield.

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On-site commercial-scale production

23,235 kg/day produced where the infrastructure exists. Supply matches demand from day one.

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Three pathways, carbon-negative blend

Electrolysis + methane pyrolysis + biomass with BECCS. Any pathway can supply a large share independently. Blended CI is net carbon-negative, unlocking the top 40% Clean Hydrogen ITC.

This Model Works

Multi-offtaker hydrogen hubs are operating today in Europe, Asia, and North America. PDEC applies the same approach at commercial scale, with existing industrial infrastructure.

HTEC Hydrogen Network

Metro Vancouver, BC

2025 operational

$337M CIB + $49M SIF. Burnaby electrolyzer (1.8 t/day), North Van liquefier (15 t/day), 18 BC stations. BC's first commercial hydrogen supply chain. Established production, distribution, and refueling across Metro Vancouver. PDEC builds on this foundation with on-site production at the scale needed for marine, port, and industrial offtakers.

BC's hydrogen foundation

Green Hysland

Mallorca, Spain

2022 operational

Solar-powered electrolyzer supplying transit buses, port operations, commercial building heat, and 115,000 households via gas grid injection.

Europe's first integrated H2 ecosystem

Namie Hydrogen Town

Fukushima, Japan

2020 operational

Single 10 MW electrolyzer supplying school buses, delivery vehicles, commercial buildings, residential fuel cells, and industrial boilers.

Full spectrum from one facility

eFarm

North Friesland, Germany

2020 operational

Wind-powered electrolysis supplying 12 transit buses, private vehicles, and district heating networks. Expanded twice since launch.

Mobility + electricity + heat

Toyota Tri-Gen

Port of Long Beach, California

2024 operational

FuelCell Energy biogas-to-hydrogen facility producing 1,200 kg/day H2, 2.3 MW electricity, and water. Serves port logistics, Class 8 trucks, and the grid.

North America's first multi-output port H2 system

Stegra (H2 Green Steel)

Boden, Sweden

2026 commissioning

First commercial-scale hydrogen DRI plant. 2.5 Mt/yr green steel, scaling to 5 Mt by 2030. $7B funded. Microsoft offtake agreement. Validates the green steel market PDEC's Phase 3 serves.

Global green steel proof point

PDEC at a glance

$141.4M

annual value created

NPV-positive from year one

1,005+

Canadian jobs

55 permanent + 950 construction

$2/GJ → $9/kg

value transformation

BC natural gas, not stranded

4 Nations

proposed equity participation

Designed in from inception

$5.80 vs $12

cheaper than diesel

Per-kg equivalent for heavy transport

Full system architecture

26 offtakers from a single hub

Shared infrastructure costs amortized across twenty-six high-utilization demand applications eliminate the single-use economics problem that has constrained every previous hydrogen project in Canada.

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Ferry fleets

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Transit buses

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15+

Harbour tugs

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50+

Port cranes

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Drayage trucks

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Rail lines

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200+

Daily flights

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CFB

Naval shore power

Annual economics

Direct revenue ~65%

Total annual value created $141.4M

Direct Economic Value

Avoided diesel fuel cost (32.7M L at $1.60/L) $52.3M

Solid carbon co-product ($550.00/t blended) $4.5M

Oxygen byproduct + district heat + grid + blending $13.6M

$85.4M

Full economics analysis

Engagement ecosystem

Technology OEMs, supply chain, prospective offtakers, academic institutions, and First Nations being engaged for a shared infrastructure model.

Ballard

Corvus

HTEC

BC Hydro

FortisBC

NorthX

TransLink

Hullo

BC Ferries

Harbour Air

Seaspan

GCT

DP World

VFPA

UVic

SFU

UBC

BCIT

Tsleil-Waututh

Squamish

Musqueam

Haisla

Enbridge

Greenlight

Engagement details and prospective demand

Implementation plan

Phase 0

2026-2027 | $500K-$1M

Pre-development. BC Hydro site lease. VFPA Waterfront land lease. UVic IESVic feasibility study. NRCan and SIF applications. First Nations engagement and equity participation framework.

Phase 1

2028-2030 | $90.6M-$316.7M

Construction and pilot. 5-10 MW electrolyzer, first pyrolysis unit, Waterfront dispensing infrastructure, SeaBus retrofit, WCE hydrogen power car, initial transit buses and port equipment.

Phase 2

2030-2032

Scale-up. Expand electrolyzer to 20-40 MW. Commission Hullo hydrogen vessels. Scale transit fleet to 80 FCEBs. Full port equipment conversion. Harbour Air H2-hybrid Twin Otter. BC Ferries route conversion.

Phase 3

2033+ | Industrial H2 expansion

Green steel corridor and export. Green hydrogen supply to Elk Valley HBI facility via CP Rail (250,000 t/yr base case HBI → $63.6M combined EBITDA, up from $38.2M Phase 1 baseline). CPKC locomotive refueling at Burrard Thermal. Green HBI export to Asia-Pacific steelmakers via Port of Vancouver. Elk Valley coal workforce transition (5,400 workers).

Full implementation plan

Leadership