Critical Minerals and Emerging Tech

Clean technology can help addresses sustainability while creating economic diversification opportunities in Alberta. The Clean Technology program invests in projects to adapt, develop, and deploy innovative clean technology to benefit Albertans and grow of the province’s low-carbon economy. In each of the priority focus areas, we look for projects and activities that can reduce environmental impacts, support Alberta’s energy transition, generate jobs in a clean-tech economy, and engage industry, researchers, and communities to participate in their future energy systems.

Critical Minerals and Emerging Technology is positioned to help reduce emissions, diversify Alberta’s economy, and enable technologies that facilitate other clean technology focus areas. Additionally, Critical Minerals and Emerging Technology contributes to the decarbonization of energy systems, creates new end-use products, and enables achievement of emission reductions targets and net-zero goals. Critical minerals demand is driven by the batteries, e-mobility, and electronics.

Critical Minerals (Mining, Metals and Materials)

We are focused on innovation in the minerals, mining, and materials sectors in Alberta through investment in solutions supporting the development of next-generation materials, critical minerals, and end products. With a focus on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) contributions, this includes novel primary and secondary extraction technologies, processing of key economic minerals, and the creation of value-add high tech materials from resources and raw materials readily available in Alberta. Critical minerals includes lithium, vanadium, titanium, rare earth elements, potash, and others, as well as the creation and demonstration of novel carbon nanomaterials, graphene, novel chemistries for improved renewable energy development, and more.

Emerging Technology

Emerging Technology has development or practical applications and is still largely unrealized but is substantively disruptive to industries – dramatically altering the customer expectation and entirely reshaping the clean technology marketplace. Currently, Emerging Technology includes modern digital systems, solutions, and tools with profound development and impact in information management.