The conference will be held for three days in collaboration with the Center for Houston’s Future.
On the first day, the Partnership will disclose a blueprint for how Houston can guide the global energy transition—leveraging its knowledge and infrastructure. Other sessions will discuss how to bolster carbon capture use and storage (CCUS) and hydrogen technologies in the region.
The Houston region has already become attracting significant activity in the energy transition and energy 2.0 spaces. Following announcements from Greentown Labs and other players last year, the momentum is ramping up in 2021.
Some of the entities, including Halliburton Labs, announced the inaugural cohort of companies for its program that creates the oil field services giant’s labs, technical expertise, and business network available to early-stage energy 2.0 companies in February.
Back in March, the media reported a new 100-megawatt energy storage project from Gambit Energy Storage LLC. The project is being built in Angleton, around 40 miles south of Downtown Houston. Gambit Energy Storage LLC is reportedly a subsidiary of Tesla.
In April, ExxonMobil revealed a proposal worth $100 billion to make an innovation zone along the Houston Ship Channel that would catch carbon emissions from petrochemical, manufacturing and other plants. Those emissions would then be carried and stored in natural geologic formations on the seafloor of the Gulf of Mexico.
Meanwhile, Danish power company Ørsted is now building the Old 300, a 1.1-gigawatt solar PV, in Fort Bend County. The Old 300 Solar Center will cover 2,800 acres and use about 1 million bifacial modules.
Solugen, a Houston bio-manufacturing company, is now working on a project to make a new bio-based manufacturing process for a specialty chemical. While Cemvita Factory, a Houston-based startup that uses biotech to turn carbon dioxide emissions into various valuable substances, is planning an expansion.
All of the companies are just a handful of the Energy 2.0 projects across the Houston region.
To learn more about the role the companies play in the energy transition and how Houston is positioned to lead the effort, interested parties can register at https://www.houston.org/energyconference.