Power that stays in the community.
Takaya Energy Solutions is a majority First Nations owned company delivering battery energy storage across British Columbia. We build the projects that keep the lights on, and we build them so the benefit stays where the project sits.
A message from our President.
Chewx min wa health tin see yi, Pekultn Siyam kwa shaman sna. How are you doing my friends, Chief Dale is my name, one of the sixteen Hereditary Chiefs from the Squamish Nation. I have been doing this work for more than twenty years, and the question has never really changed. Our people are asked to give something up so a project can go ahead somewhere else. What comes back is a payment and a promise. I have sat on the Nation side of that table with councils, elders, staff and a lot of good people, and we negotiated our share of those agreements. Some were good. None were ownership. And not many of them did much for the land or the water either.
Takaya Energy Solutions is here to change which side of the table our Nations sit on, and to do it with clean energy. We are majority First Nations owned. We supply battery storage, which is what the grid in this province is short of right now, and which is what lets more renewable power actually get used. When we build a project, the ownership stays in the community. So does the revenue, the jobs, the training and the skills. I want our young people running these projects, not just watching them get built.
My family is part of the Wolf Clan. People like to know where you come from. It tells them a lot about where you are going. Takaya means wolf. The wolf travels far and works as a pack. It looks after the young and the old, and it does not take more from the territory than the pack needs. It is how we work, respect the community you are in and look after the land. Land is our culture and culture is our land.
I did not get here on my own. Over the years I have worked with people in government, in industry and in our Nations who have had a real hand in shaping this province. Those relationships are what I bring to Takaya and to this work, and I am grateful for every one of them. They are also how projects get built. Relationships, Friendships and Partnerships.
Whether you are a Nation thinking about your own energy future, a utility that needs a supplier who can deliver, or a government that wants a partner who can execute, we are ready to sit down with you. We are here for the people who want to see this done right, because that is the only way we know how to build. Reach out and let's start the conversation.
Chief Dale Harry, Pekultn Siyam President, Takaya Energy SolutionsHereditary Chief, Squamish Nation
The moment
British Columbia needs more power, and it needs it to be flexible.
Electricity demand in this province is climbing. Electrification, industrial growth and population growth are all pulling in the same direction. Building new generation takes years. Storage is different. A battery energy storage system can be sited, permitted and energized on a much shorter timeline, and it does something generation alone cannot. It holds power when demand is low and releases it when the grid needs it most.
That makes storage one of the fastest ways to add real capacity to the BC grid. It also makes it one of the clearest opportunities for First Nations to hold an ownership position in the energy system rather than a consultation file.
That is the gap Takaya Energy Solutions was built to fill.
What we bring
Four things we bring to a project.
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Ownership that is real
We are majority First Nations owned. Not a partnership badge, not an advisory seat. Ownership, at the top of the cap table, with First Nations leadership in the President's chair.
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Technology and delivery through Sparq and Northcrest
Our battery systems come through our partnership with Sparq and Northcrest. Northcrest has been supplying energy infrastructure since 2008. Sparq brings the battery and power conversion technology. Between them they carry the engineering depth, the manufacturing relationships and the installed experience that utility procurement asks for. We did not build a company and then go looking for a supplier. The technical capability was in place before we opened the door.
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Leadership that has closed real deals
Our President negotiated, concluded and implemented two run of river power projects, the Sea to Sky Highway Improvement Agreement and a series of major commercial developments on behalf of the Squamish Nation. Our Executive Director spent his career as a Chief of Staff across British Columbia ministries and as the government relations lead at the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority. This is not a first attempt at a complicated file.
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A path through the process
Utility procurement and government funding programs each have their own language, timing and standards of evidence. We know both. That is the difference between a good project idea and a project that reaches financial close.
Who we work with
Built for the people who actually build things.
For BC Hydro, utilities and regulators
You need suppliers who can qualify, deliver on schedule and stand behind the equipment for the life of the contract. Takaya Energy Solutions brings a majority Indigenous owned prime with two established technology and supply partners behind it, Sparq and Northcrest, and a leadership team that has been through provincial procurement, regulatory process and major project negotiation before. We are straightforward to deal with, we respond in the format you ask for, and we are registered and compliant on the lobbying and disclosure side. If you have a technical or qualification question, ask it early and you will get a direct answer.
For First Nations and economic development corporations
You have almost certainly been approached before. A developer arrives with a project already designed, offers a share of revenue and a community benefit package, and asks for a letter of support. The project gets built, and someone else owns it. We start from a different place. We are structured so that Nations take an ownership position in the asset itself, and our engagement moves at the pace your council and your membership set, not at the pace of someone else's deadline. We will also do the federal, provincial and municipal funding search on your project before you have committed to anything.
For government, funders and program agencies
Programs designed to grow Indigenous ownership in the energy sector need companies that actually meet the ownership threshold, have the technical capacity to deliver, and can report properly on what public money bought. We meet all three. Our ownership is genuine and documented, our delivery capacity comes through Sparq and Northcrest, and our leadership has sat on the government side of the table and knows what accountability looks like from there.
For industry and large power users
Mines, ports, terminals, processing facilities and remote operations all face the same problem. Grid capacity is constrained and diesel is expensive. Storage solves part of that problem today, and it can be sized to your load rather than to a catalogue.
Start with a conversation.
Most good projects start with someone asking a simple question. Would storage work here? We are happy to answer that, at no cost and with no obligation, before anyone signs anything.
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