Nukik Corporation's Anne-Raphaëlle Audouin: First Arctic Electricity Developer on the Grid

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Anne-Raphaëlle Audouin discusses the challenges and opportunities of developing electricity infrastructure in Nunavut.

Nunavut is 20% of Canada's landmass. It has no roads, no transmission lines and no physical connection to the rest of the nation. Every watt of electricity powering its homes, hospitals, schools and two major gold mines runs on diesel and almost all of that diesel is imported from foreign countries. Anne-Raphaëlle Audouin, CEO of Nukik Corporation, is working to change that. In this episode of Drumbeats, Anne-Raphaëlle explains the scope of the challenge, the commercial architecture of the solution, and why she believes Canada's Arctic represents one of the most compelling regulated infrastructure opportunities available to institutional investors today. Nukik Corporation was established in 2021 by the Kivalliq Inuit Association, making it 100% Inuit-owned. Its flagship project - the Kivalliq Hydro-Fibre Linkis a $3 billion, 1,000-kilometre transmission line that would connect the Kivalliq region's communities, government and mining operations to the continental grid for the first time. Anne-Raphaëlle joined as CEO in 2022, bringing a career spanning environmental law, natural resources management and over a decade in the hydropower sector across Canada and West Africa. In this…

People in this episode

Hosts: Mark Magnacca, Rob Brant

Guest: Anne-Raphaëlle Audouin

Topics covered

• Arctic electricity development
• Indigenous investment
• Infrastructure opportunities
• Energy sovereignty
• Hydropower

Keywords

• Nunavut
• electricity
• Nukik Corporation
• infrastructure
• Indigenous investment
• hydropower
• energy sovereignty

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Nukik Corporation, Kivalliq Inuit Association

Products: Kivalliq Hydro-Fibre Link

Places: Nunavut, Kivalliq region, Canada, West Africa

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