Entering into 21st century

energy industry

one of the supporting industrial sectors for all over the world

is experiencing profound changes driven by the increasingly rapid depletion of fossil fuels and the overwhelming concerns about environmental protection.To identify and highlight the critical needs and opportunities in the future has become one of the key strategies

almost all the countries and energy companies should carefully formulate

and for this purpose technology foresight (TFS) becomes one of the most important tools.This article introduces the development of TFS

the relationship of TFS with core competence and sustainable development

various methodologies used in TFS activities and their applications to energy industry with the activities carried out by China

Japan and Shell as examples

in order to provide a reference for the related activities that are ongoing in China.Finally

the scenario-based analysis of clean gasoline in the next 5 to 15 years in China was presented as an example to demonstrate the application of TFS.