Alberta’s Path to Low-Carbon Growth: Key Sectors and Opportunities from Energy Futures Lab Study

As Canada focuses on climate competitiveness in the federal budget, a new study from the Energy Futures Lab demonstrates how Alberta can capture global and North American market opportunities through low-carbon economic growth.

Alberta’s Future Competitiveness and the Next Wave of Growth: Building the industries of tomorrow examines 16 emerging resource-based, low-carbon sectors set to contribute to Alberta’s economy and identifies five sectors poised for strong growth:

• Clean energy enablers – nuclear, waste-to-engery, solar & wind, and geothermal; providing low-emission power to attract new industries and investment.
• Critical minerals processing – building the missing midstream for allied supply chains and moving Canada beyond a “rip and ship” model to capture more value at home.
  • The Energy Futures Lab has also released an accompanying  Industrial Development Playbook highlighting how this can be achieved
• Green chemistry – leveraging Alberta’s petrochemical strengths to meet global demand.
• Alternative proteins – tapping into the rising plant-based nutrition market.
• Carbon capture and storage – applying Albertan expertise to decarbonize multiple sectors and to lead in exporting technology and services abroad.

The report also includes six policy recommendations designed to strengthen Alberta’s economic competitiveness.

The full report can be downloaded on the Energy Futures Lab website: https://www.energyfutureslab.com/publications/alberta%E2%80%99s-future-competitiveness-and-the-next-wave-of-growth