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Open until August 15, 2025
This Request for Information (RFI) seeks written feedback from all interested parties to help understand more fully the opportunity for AI to accelerate energy innovation in, and for, Canada. This includes input from individuals and groups, especially those with a particular perspective or experience related to the development, operation and testing of AI as it relates to practical use cases for advanced energy innovation.
Background
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to quickly deliver technology advances that lower the operational costs of energy, improve energy system effectiveness, accelerate the discovery of new energy materials, and thus support Canada’s energy transition through accelerated innovation.
Canada has already made significant investments, such as through the Pan Canadian AI Strategy and the Canadian Sovereign Compute AI Strategy, to become a global leader in developing next-generation AI solutions. Building on these investments, we are seeking to accelerate the pace of energy innovation using AI.
How to submit feedback
Responses will be collected through GC Forms. The questions you may respond to can be found directly in the form and listed below for your reference.
Disclaimer on Information Sharing
Please do not provide proprietary information and/or confidential business information in your response. Individual contributions will be kept confidential. Information received through this RFI can be shared with parties upon request; however, all information will be represented in aggregate without attribution.
Questions to consider for your submission
Respondents may respond to any or all the questions as appropriate.
- How do you envision AI accelerating energy innovation in Canada? Are there particular use-cases from other companies or countries that are relevant, or could be adapted to a Canadian context?
- What are some sub-sectors where you expect significant improvement/impact from AI application? E.g., energy efficiency, energy production, energy infrastructure security, energy infrastructure maintenance
- What challenges in bringing new energy innovations to market can AI address?
- What specific opportunities exist for Canada to excel in the use, or development of, AI solutions for energy innovation?
- What is the degree of interest within the Canadian AI ecosystem to tackle energy innovation challenges? Are there current incentives or barriers to support the use of AI in energy innovation?
- What barriers exist to harnessing AI expertise to address energy innovation applications? For example: limited access to data (or unavailable data), lack of energy expertise in AI firms; poor connections between AI innovators and the energy innovation ecosystem, limited funding (from energy innovators) to work with AI innovators etc.
- Do you or your organization already utilize AI to accelerate energy innovation? If so, what areas are you active in? [Please do not provide proprietary information and/or confidential business information in your response. Please see disclaimer for more information]
- What would be the most impactful investment to support advancing AI’s capacity to accelerate energy innovation in Canada? For example, are there specific areas across the sector that are difficult to attract private investment, and require new or sustained government support to accelerate innovation?
- Is access to sovereign AI compute capacity a barrier for the development of new AI applications for energy innovation in Canada?
Contact us
If you have additional information to share in the area of AI and Energy Innovation in Canada which were not explored by the questions above, please send your input to: energyinnovation-innovationenergetique@nrcan-rncan.gc.ca
Disclaimer
Please note this is solely a request for information and does not represent formal consultation for a current or future funding opportunity. NRCan is not obligated to respond directly or indirectly to any of the issues submitted under an RFI.
NRCan will not reimburse any respondent for expenses incurred in responding. Respondents will have no claim for damages, compensation, loss of profit, or allowance arising out of providing comments in response to the RFI.
Please do not include any information you consider proprietary or confidential. NRCan will handle the responses in accordance with the Access to Information Act.
Responses may be shared with other departments within the Government of Canada unless the respondent specifically indicates otherwise.
NRCan may, at its discretion, contact any respondents to follow up with additional questions or for clarification of any aspect of a response.