Energy Innovations for Today and Tomorrow

今天和明天的能源创新是卡尔加里大学能源研究的机构战略。我们的能源研究战略是由来自整个学院的220多名教职员工共同努力创建的，于2013年启动，旨在解决能源领域社会面临的一些最复杂的问题。其核心愿景是为世界提供安全、清洁、可靠的能源供应。到2040年，全球人口将达到90亿，即使人均能源使用量预计会下降，世界能源需求仍将是2012年的1.5倍。如果子孙后代要在对环境影响最小的情况下（包括大幅减少碳排放）享受持续繁荣，满足这一需求是一个艰巨的问题。通过实施能源研究战略，我们在开发和分享世界迫切需要的下一个伟大的能源创新方面发挥了领导作用。它确定了具有全球意义的四大挑战，我们在这些挑战中拥有研究和培训的综合能力，可以提供世界一流的解决方案。这些重大挑战解决了围绕非常规油气资源、水力压裂、低碳能源以及能源相关过程累积效应的主要全球问题。位于加拿大化石燃料工业的首都，我们的机构受益于与能源公司，决策者和技术用户的合作研究机会。这使我们能够在负责任的开采加拿大宝贵资源方面迅速创造和部署新的进展，并成为少数几个在高影响力能源研究方面处于世界领先地位的国家之一。

Energy Innovations for Today and Tomorrow is the University of Calgary’s institutional strategy for energy research. Created by the combined effort of over 220 faculty members drawn from across our entire institution and launched in 2013, our Energy Research Strategy addresses some of the most complex problems facing society in the energy field. Its central vision is delivering safe, clean, secure energy supplies for the world. By 2040, with the global population reaching 9 billion people and even with the anticipated decrease in per capita energy use, world energy demand will be 1.5 times greater than in 2012. Meeting this demand is a daunting problem if future generations are to enjoy sustained prosperity with minimal environmental impacts, including significant reductions in carbon emissions. Through the implementation of the Energy Research Strategy, we are taking a leadership role in developing and sharing the next great energy innovations that the world so urgently needs. It identifies four grand challenges of global significance where we have the combined research and training capacity to deliver world-class solutions. These grand challenges address major global issues surrounding unconventional hydrocarbon resources, hydraulic fracturing, towards low carbon energy, and cumulative effects of energy-related processes. Located in the capital of Canada’s fossil fuel industry, our institution benefits from collaborative research opportunities with energy companies, decision-makers and technology users. This enables us to create and deploy rapidly new advances in the responsible extraction of Canada’s precious resources and to be one of the few world-leaders in high-impact energy research.