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SUMMERSIDE
PROVIDES YOU
HUGE OPPORTUNITIES!

Summerside Economic Development supports your expansion by bringing in all the right partners, all the necessary financial support, and the comprehensive hands-on collaboration that has made us so successful since our inception.

We provide a place for companies to develop their offers, test innovative solutions, and commercialize their technologies for the North American Market. Unlike many other municipal development organizations, Summerside Economic Development gives you the platform to validate your innovations in a real-world market... efficiently and profitably!

Summerside is now a proven commercial partner thanks to how its infrastructure-rich environment helps start-ups, SMEs, and international companies grow their development and expedite their market growth. As an example, this commercialization partnership has even made it so that Summerside now generates 67% of its own power requirements from wind and solar! That’s the power of how we’ve thoroughly we’ve invested in firms like yours developing next-generation products and services.

Summerside is:
  • The cleantech centre at the heart of Canada’s “Green Province”
  • An established support infrastructure for trialling of renewable energy sources
  • Xchange Accelerator and Living Lab testbed for kickstarting innovative ambitions
  • The ideal gateway City for European companies to enter North American markets

While Summerside is a small City, it’s part of a very large eco-system—a region of 2.4 million people, a collective GDP of $105.8 billion and strong trading connections with the USA.

Summerside brings you:
  • Over 100 years of subject-matter expertise
  • 2 decades of roaring success
  • Systems in place to support your success
  • One of the lowest cost jurisdictions in Canada
  • The opportunity to make more money faster
  • The track record, testimonials and case studies to prove it

Are you ready to expand your business in North America?

If you are ready to discuss the possibilities for your business growth in partnership with the Summerside Economic Development, then
Let’s chat!

BENEFITS FOR
SUMMERSIDE EDO
CLIENTS

IF YOU are AN INNOVATIVE COMPANY LOOKING TO EXPAND

The Summerside Xchange Accelerator gets things moving quickly. Summerside Xchange is a one-stop growth shop for innovative companies that are looking to make more money faster, while adding value to the City of Summerside (and North America at large!).

IF YOU NEED TO INTRODUCE A NEW PRODUCT TO NEW CUSTOMERS

We have a network of subject matter experts and connections throughout North America that can help you navigate, get connected and open business opportunities.

In Summerside, we make your first steps to North American Commercialization Easy.

“Without the sophisticated, diverse and robust infrastructure of Summerside along with a forward thinking and innovative community, our ability to evolve our renewable ambitions in collaboration with Summerside would not have been achievable. Our partnerships are a testament to the opportunity to grow our expertise and technology in an infrastructure rich environment like Summerside. Working within this municipality of innovative thinkers has proven an invaluable resource to test, pilot, and validate innovation.”

Paul Ahn, President
Samsung Renewable Energy Inc.
Canada
IF YOU WANT TO EXPAND INTO NORTH AMERICAN MARKETS

The unique Summerside solution is here for you

Let’s chat!

Cash in on Summerside Challenges

Summerside Xchange continuously strives to build the kind of long-term partnerships from which so many startup success stories have evolved. It does so through the Summerside Challenge Program. This program addresses specific technology issues that the City of Summerside wishes to resolve, using open innovation methods and partnering with businesses like yours.

Here is your opportunity!
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If you are excited about collaborating with us in any way, shape or form
Let’s chat!

We make it easy
to apply!

STEP 1: Complete the registration form
STEP 2: Allow for 10 working days for application review
STEP 3: Membership assessment meeting with Summerside technical/business partners
Summerside in numbers:

Summerside, Canada is a low-cost business environment making your limited development funds go further allowing you to reach revenue generating activity sooner than many other locations in North America.

Situated on Prince Edward Island (PEI) in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, off the Atlantic Coast of eastern Canada, the City of Summerside occupies an ideal nearshore location, midway between major North American and European cities. With less than a two-hour flight to New York, Boston and Toronto, PEI ensures excellent access to markets through year-round ports, major air cargo routes and high-bulk land transportation. Compelling infrastructure and incomparable support systems have made the City of Summerside a location of choice for IT. Global companies have established their most profitable nearshore locations in Summerside, largely due to several factors including:

  • The area’s highly productive workforce
  • Lowest operating cost in the G7
  • Positive tax environment KPMG ranks Summerside as the lowest cost location in North America for operating a nearshore/shared service centre.

To receive a custom report outlining how much money your company can save by operating in Summerside please contact us—a Summerside representative will be in contact with you.

How to become a Summerside client:

Fill out the registration form, meet the conditions for admission and become a member of the net zero movement in Summerside.

Cleantech businesses that we are looking for:
  • Utility scale and distributed energy renewables
  • Hydrogen adoption applications – vehicles, space heating, generation, etc.
  • Heating, cooling, and hot water smart devices
  • Novel vehicle charging technologies
  • Solar, wind, and storage utilization technologies
  • Smart gird applications – residential, micro, and utility scale

SIDE WITH SUMMERSIDE

If you want to save money, time, learn fast, and introduce your product to new customers
Let’s chat!
Summerside
becomes a powerful
Cleantech Hub
  • Single Window Concierge Service
  • Collaborative Approach – We bring partners to you
  • 100 Years of Expertise
  • Fully Coordinated systems
  • Access to and networks within various support organizations

Are you ready to discuss huge possibilities for your business?

Let’s chat!
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Where Seeing is Believing
We have already helped 12 companies secure facilities and grow export markets from Summerside:
“The City of Summerside and the Xchange has helped WindTAK enter the Canadian marketplace by becoming the “first customer”. It has also helped to connect us with the larger wind energy industry network in North America. This is very valuable to our success in launching into the North American market and these key contacts will pay dividends for WindTAK into the future. We have moved quickly from signing up to be a Xchange member, to partnering with a national wind research partner in Canada, and to now finalizing our product installation on a municipal wind farm.”

Dr. Maciej Karczewski
WindTAK sp. z o.o.
“Summerside’s Living Lab Program has allowed us to accelerate our Research and Development phase, enabled us to get to market quicker and facilitated validation for us to raise crucial capital as we ramp up production. Having access to expertise and critical infrastructure in Summerside enabled us to build market credibility and test, refine and develop our products in an accelerated and market accepted fashion.”

Jordan Kennie
Chief Executive Officer, Stash Energy
“Summerside’s rich infrastructure and entrepreneurial mindset has allowed BluWave-ai to accelerate its international expansion. This was done because Summerside was substantially further advanced than the biggest utilities in Canadian cities such as Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal, who are actually behind when it comes to adoption of large renewable assets in the utility distribution system. As an emerging AI company, we can't build our own "smart grid" so must rely on forward-looking utilities and cities to partner with. It turns out that Summerside was ahead of all of Canada when it came to adoption of an integrated renewable portfolio with wind, solar, battery storage, metered loads, integrated and metered standby diesel backup, and an upper grid connection to mainland North America. We were able to come in, use Summerside data to test out our AI models on its live operations and hone those AI models for the export market.

By partnering with Summerside, we were able to validate our solution in a diverse smart grid eco system and refine our product approach to hone in on what matters to clients around the globe. Summerside’s clean tech focus, support eco system and ability to deliver and open doors has been critical to our international success. Our cloud-based AI platform is now deployed internationally across 10 time zones and was critically operational from the cloud during Covid19, delivering over a half a million real time energy market dispatches during that period to keep grids stable and minimize carbon utilization.”

Devashish Paul
CEO/Founder, BluWave-ai
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