Through this initiative, SGIN recognized the importance of engaging with stakeholders across the energy ecosystem to accelerate net-zero planning and facilitate implementation. The project explored several key workstreams: 

1. Provincial Electrification: Identified high-impact electrification pathways and supported ther implementation in New Brunswick.
2. Community Electrification: Engaged with NB communities to advance net-zero goals, providing guidance on implementation strategies and near-term projects.
3. Measurement and Verification (M&V) Services: Supported two near-term projects with M&V needs while working to align services with major utilities. 
4. Interoperability Standards: Launched a discovery project to assess challenges and opportunities for utilities and vendors in adopting smart energy solutions, laying the groundwork for interoperability standards.
5. Smart Energy Collaboration Network: Led a regional discovery identification and prioritization exercise and develop formal agreements with other regional, national, and international collaborator(s) with similar goals.
6. Energy Innovation Forum: Hosted the Energy Innovation Forum (EIF) in Atlantic Canada. This event provided an opportunity to interact with local, national, and international experts and provides local companies and utilities an opportunity to share their knowledge.

Project Goals: 

• Articulate the current state of the ecosystem which enables the smart energy development, including clean energy supply, grid modernization, clean energy use.
• Identify gaps to create better supply chains in order to enable a futuristic ecosystem.
• Create awareness to accelerate energy transition.  
• Share the findings, conclusions, and recommendations broadly to adopt energy transition through a smart, dynamic, and customer-centric approach.

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