Highlighting Our Impact in 2025

Here’s a quick sneak peek at how Student Energy advanced on the strategic priorities outlined in our Vision 2030 last year, and across our global ecosystem, through five key accomplishments.

(1) We continued to scale the scope and impact of our global youth network, reaching more than 6,200 young people from 81 countries across our ecosystem of programs and growing our Chapters network to a total of 60 worldwide;

Overview of Student Energy’s global youth network.

(2) We helped to foster intentional spaces for youth dialogue and collaboration on energy through the first-ever Virtual Youth Impact Forum, which welcomed more than 1,000 youth, and made meaningful progress on plans for the next editions of the Student Energy Summit and the SevenGen Indigenous Youth Energy Forum;

Image from the Virtual Youth Impact Forum’s “Entrepreneurship in Energy Transition: Empowering Youth Innovators” session, featuring speaker Augusto Diaz.

(3) We deepened our approach to place-based work, ensuring that interventions are rooted in and responsive to the specific needs and realities of different regions through the launch of two new programs—the Student Energy Career Training (SECT) Women in Energy Africa program and The Clean Economy Bridge (TCB) Research Program;

Student Energy team members Ifeanyi Ohanyere and Brett McMillan at the Clean Economy Bridge Conference in Edmonton, in November 2025.

(4) We contributed to more accessible clean energy career pathways and sustainable youth-led energy solutions, distributing almost CAD 750,000 in wage subsidies and CAD 92,000 in direct-to-youth funding via Student Energy Guided Projects to support community clean energy projects, alongside providing more than 600 hours of coaching and mentorship;

Members of the Spark Source Consulting team, who participated in Student Energy’s Guided Projects program and led the installation of a 5 kW solar array on a local organic farm in Ontario, Canada.

(5) We enhanced our suite of dynamic, freely accessible energy education tools, bringing energy information to a broader audience of youth via the Energy Voices podcast, while our Energy System Map reached 14.32 million total lifetime views; and

Listen to the Energy Voices podcast, now available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts!

To top off a very successful year, Student Energy was also recognized for our achievements and contributions to youth participation in the clean energy sector, receiving the prestigious Governor General’s Innovation Award alongside two Sustainable Buildings Awards.

Student Energy’s senior leadership team receiving the Governor General’s Innovation Award in Ottawa, in May 2025.

Read more about each of these accomplishments, along with updates and achievements from across our program ecosystem in our full-length 2025 Annual Report below.

CHECK OUT OUR 2025 ANNUAL REPORT

As we now move towards the end of 2026, we’re excited to continue accelerating meaningful progress towards our Vision 2030 — a world where young people are at the forefront of the clean energy transition — by scaling our investments into young people, contributing to more accessible and equitable workforce development pathways, instilling a deeper sense of community across our network of young changemakers, and institutionalizing more inclusive and youth-responsive policy processes.

We’re so grateful for the continued support of our partners and youth network, without whom all of these incredible achievements would not have been possible!

Stay in touch with us as we share exciting updates from across our ecosystem over the next year, and beyond.

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Our 5th International Student Energy Summit happened last month in Mexico, bringing together delegates from across the globe to innovate on our world’s energy issues. On this episode of Energy Voices, our host, Meredith Adler interviews three of our amazing delegates and dives into the post summit movements happening in their local communities.

First, Meredith checked in with Natalia Pulido from Monterey, Mexico. Natalia is a student studying Sustainable Development Engineering.  She is interested in renewable energy and the direct correlation between energy growth and the economy.

She came to SES with the goal of wanting to meet people who will inspire her entrepreneurial spirit and continue to build upon her global network of industry leaders and aspiring changemakers.

Natalia moved her entrepreneurial mindset into action when she pitched her idea during the Summit’s Innovation Jam. Energia Latinoamericana(ENERLAM), was born, with a mission to create a dialogue between representative members of Latin American countries. The goal is to increase sustainable energy initiatives and energy knowledge across Latin America, well addressing the energy poverty issues that exist in these countries. They hope to create a database of energy information to encourage collaboration and sustainable energy knowledge across Latin America.

The group was a huge success, drawing over 80 students at the summit to the table to discuss the potential of ENERLAM (the largest innovation jam group in SE history!) with meetings continuing post summit and over 425 active members to date. We are excited to see what is to come from ENERLAM.

Next up, Meredith spoke with Churchill Agutu, from Pretoria. A Chemical Engineering student with a focus in solar energy development, Churchill is challenging the traditional mindset of who can engage in the energy conversation and wants to encourage those from different educational backgrounds to leverage their skills to create a conversation around energy.

Churchill went to the summit with a similar vision to Natalia. However, he hoped that the summit would provide him with the insight of where he can be most effective in instigating change within the energy industry.

Finally, Meredith checked in with Vancouver, Canada resident Braeden Peterson, a business student at Simon Fraser University with a focused degree in marketing and entrepreneurship. Braeden caught interest in energy issues during an entrepreneurship project he was working on at school. His entrepreneurial spirit quickly recognized the huge opportunity that exists within the energy industry for disruption and innovation.

Braeden found the Summit the perfect place to further his knowledge of the energy industry, especially on a global scale. He loved meeting people from around the world with different backgrounds but who shared the common goal of improving our current energy system.

Braeden also took part in our Community Contribution Program that took place after our Summit. Braeden found this experience to be quite profound, and he felt it gave him a real understanding of how energy system improvements can impact people’s lives.

Braeden feels the Summit opened his eyes to how he can leverage his existing networks, with his own nonprofit to start tackling energy issues in his community.

Overall, this episode just solidified that amazing work that has continued post summit. We couldn’t be more proud of our delegates and the work they are doing in their communities. We can’t wait to see what’s next!