Greater Houston is the global hub for oil and gas companies, and the city of Houston has set a goal of becoming carbon-neutral by 2050. A market assessment by Center for Houston's Future and University of Houston outlines four areas in which the Houston region can lead the global energy transition.
The report will be released Thursday, Oct. 8, the first day of the two-day Houston Low-Carbon Energy Innovation Summit sponsored by Center for Houston's Future. The assessment is the result of a partnership between the Center and UH Energy. Center staff, UH faculty and students and an outside consulting firm conducted a six-month study of Houston's potential to lead the energy transition.
This work is the first to quantify the scope, size and challenge required to decarbonize Houston's industrial energy sector and to envision what new industries might emerge from those efforts.
The second day of the virtual conference, Oct. 15, will discuss Houston's progress on creating a low-carbon energy innovation ecosystem, featuring nationally known speakers including Jetta Wong, former senior Department of Energy official and senior fellow at the Innovation Technology and Information Foundation; Christina Karapataki of Bill Gates' Breakthrough Energy, and Michael Skelly, Houston clean energy entrepreneur and senior advisor at Lazard.
Franklin Chang-Díaz, CEO of Ad Astra Rocket Company and former astronaut, will deliver the closing keynote discussing both manned space flight to Mars and solving climate change.
The full agenda and registration is available here
