About Alberta Energy
The Department manages the development of provincially owned energy and mineral resources by industry and the assessment and collection of non-renewable resource revenues in the form of royalties, freehold mineral taxes, rentals and bonuses. The Department promotes development of Alberta’s energy and mineral resources, recommends and implements energy and mineral related policy, grants rights for exploration and development to industry and establishes and administers fiscal regimes and royalty systems. The Department's resource portfolio includes natural gas, conventional oil, oil sands, petrochemicals, electricity, coal and minerals, renewable energy (wind, bio-energy, solar, hydro, geothermal, etc.) and energy efficiency and conservation.
Vision
Alberta is a global energy leader, recognized as a responsible world-class energy supplier, an energy technology champion, a sophisticated energy consumer and a solid global environmental citizen.
Mission
Assure sustained prosperity in the interests of Albertans through the responsible development of energy and mineral resources, and leadership in the energy technology, conservation and efficiency.
Core Businesses, Goals, Strategies And Measures
The Ministry has eleven core business goals.
- Alberta has a competitive and effective royalty system, incenting development and maximizing benefits to Albertans
- Ensure all energy and mineral resource revenues, that the Government of Alberta is entitled to, are accurately calculated, collected and reported
- Ensure the energy and mineral resource development occurs in a responsible environmentally sustainable manner and achieves the Government of Alberta's outcomes
- The Ministry and its partners have the required policies and programs to encourage value-added development in Alberta
- Albertans are aware of an understand existing and emerging trends and opportunities relating to energy development and use in Alberta
- Industry, citizens and communities conserve and use energy wisely
- Energy related infrastructure is built and sustained to support the Government of Alberta's objectives
- Ensure effective innovation policies and programs to achieve technology and processing improvements in the development of energy and mineral resources
- Alberta has a competitive and efficient energy system ensuring Albertans electricity and natural gas needs are met
- Regulation of energy and utility development in Alberta is fair, responsible and in the public interest
- Build an organizational environment for success
