Dr. Raphael Idem says his appointment as SaskPower Clean Energy Research Chair is the opportunity he has always dreamed of.

Idem, an engineering professor and the director of the Clean Energy Technologies Research Institute (CETRI), is a world leader in the study of generating energy from coal and natural gas with carbon capture.

"I have extensively studied energy from hydrogen and biomass, taking these technologies from the test-tube to the pilot plant stage," he says.