Imagine a world with abundant, clean energy. How different would our human civilization be with fewer energy limitations – less risk of climate change, no peak oil, and more renewable ways to provide power to an exploding global population?

To explore this future, the Waterloo Global Science Initiative (WGSI) published the Equinox Blueprint: Energy 2030 – a roadmap of some of the highest impact energy technologies that could scale over the coming decades, along with detailed implementation strategies that apply the latest scientific and technological thinking.

Click here to download the Equinox Blueprint: Energy 2030!

The Equinox Blueprint was born from a multinational, multidisciplinary and multigenerational collaboration - Equinox Summit: Energy 2030 - with a focus on lowering the carbon emissions of electricity generation, distribution and storage. This gathering in June 2011 included pioneering scientists, policy advisors, entrepreneurs and tomorrow’s leaders who, through the course of three days of closed-door meetings, were charged with imagining the needs of 2030 and drafting a plan to meet those needs.

Learn More

• About the Equinox Summit: Energy 2030
• Equinox Communiqué, the short, concise findings and foundation for the Blueprint
• Globe and Mail: "Plotting a road map for a low-carbon future"
• Policy Options Magazine: "Imagining a lower-carbon, electrified future"

The Unique Process and What Emerged

The following video is from the launch of the Equinox Blueprint at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Vancouver, Canada. Learn about the five exemplar pathways in the roadmap, as well as the unique process that drove their formation.

Five Pillars

Click on the links below to learn about each chapter via video. Each pillar is available for individual download.

• Large Scale Storage for Renewable Energy
• Enhanced Geothermal
• Advanced Nuclear
• Off-Grid Electricity Access
• Smart Urbanization