Communities shape their own development.
Carnotech Energy Inc. is a project development and service procurement company in Vancouver, working in energy, mining, infrastructure and resource planning across British Columbia. We help communities plan, fund and deliver their projects.
How a project moves
We stay with a project from the first study to the day the community runs it.
Planning and studies
Community energy plans, energy audits and baselines, coordinating feasibility and resource studies, and plans for community resilience.
Funding
Technical proposals and funding applications, matched to the programs that fit the project.
Building
Project management and technology procurement, through to turnkey infrastructure such as greenhouses.
Operating
Energy management systems to ISO 50001: baselines, performance indicators and monitoring.
Training
Training and capacity building, so the community runs its own energy and its own projects.
How we show a project
A council has to understand a project before it can decide on it. Our live maps show energy, mining, forests and land from official open data, with each source named. A mine model can be placed on a table in augmented reality.
Films of a project on its real ground, for communities, funders and approvals.
Terrain and plans people can turn and zoom on screen.
Maps that refresh from the agencies that publish the data.
A 3D model of a place, joined to its records.
The people
Nima Mousavi, B.Sc., M.Eng.
Co-Founder and Executive Director
A business executive with an engineering background, Nima has led Carnotech's growth and the delivery of over 500 projects in renewable energy, mining, agriculture, aquaculture, tourism and real estate. He is a published researcher on geothermal energy and renewable power for remote communities, and holds a Master's in Civil Engineering and a Project Management Certificate from UBC.
Dr. Mory Ghomshei, Ph.D., P.Eng., P.Geo.
Shareholder
A mining engineer and geoscientist with over 40 years in mining, mineral processing and geothermal energy. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Paris XI and the École Normale Supérieure de Paris, and a Master of Engineering from the University of British Columbia. He has taught at UBC, BCIT and McGill, and served as Chair of the Canadian Geothermal Energy Association.
How we work
Projects are planned with the community, and the community shapes its own development.
We develop the proposal, secure the funding, assemble the expert team and see the project through to completion.
Plans are built with community leadership, technical staff and local knowledge keepers, and carry local values and traditional knowledge.
Training and Energy Champions build in-house capacity, so the community can run what is built.
We work to your access rules and publish nothing about your community or your projects without your approval. With First Nations, we follow the principles of OCAP®.
OCAP® is a registered trademark of the First Nations Information Governance Centre (FNIGC).
Write to us about your project.
Tell us about your project and who it is for. We reply in writing.