Today, the new Future Energy Systems (FES) website was launched. FES was first established on September 7, 2016, when the University of Alberta was awarded $75 million over seven years for energy research through the Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF). FES currently consists of 12 theme areas; each theme is coordinated by a team of three co-champions:
- Bioenergy
- Carbon capture, utilization, and storage
- Communities and Aboriginal
- Energy humanities
- Geothermal energy
- Grids and storage
- Heavy oil
- Land and water
- Non-electrical infrastructure
- Solar energy
- Wind energy
- Systemwide analysis
I am co-champion of the Communities and Aboriginal theme and a principal investigator within the Geothermal Energy theme. A summary of Future Energy Systems is below: