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Greater Houston Partnership Signs Memorandum of Understanding with Argonne National Laboratory

Published Mar 19, 2024 by Lou Ann Duvall

Houston Energy Transition Initiative HETI Argonne National Labs Signing MOU

(HOUSTON) – The Greater Houston Partnership, through its Houston Energy Transition Initiative (HETI), 和阿贡国家实验室签署了一份谅解备忘录(MOU),以利用休斯顿的顶级研究机构, energy and industrial leadership, infrastructure, 以及技术专长,以促进皇冠HGA010官方下载转型商业规模解决方案的发展.

This partnership aims to enable greater collaboration across academia, local industry (existing and startup), private investors and government to accelerate the translation, 对实现气候和经济发展目标所必需的突破性碳减排技术进行评估和预商业化. The MOU will enable Houston to capitalize on its nascent, but fast-growing, 皇冠HGA010官方下载创新生态系统,并通过创建卓越的脱碳中心来刺激基于地方的创新和商业化.

“The U.S. Department of Energy’s national laboratories have long been the backbone of research, development, and demonstration for the energy sector. The Partnership and HETI, working with our industry members, business community and top research and academic institutions, in collaboration with Argonne, will work across our energy innovation ecosystem to drive this critical effort for our region,” said Bobby Tudor, CEO of Artemis Energy Partners and Chair of HETI. “休斯顿的卓越脱碳中心是该地区推进关键皇冠HGA010官方下载转型技术以减轻气候变化相关风险的协调方法中缺失的一环, while also promoting economic growth and job creation for the region.”

Achieving a net-zero emissions economy by 2050 will require carbon management at scale, 既要减少难以脱碳部门的温室气体排放,又要清除大气中已经存在的二氧化碳. Through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act, the U.S. is making unprecedented investments in carbon management R&D to de-risk technologies needed in the short term, invent the technologies needed in the medium term, 并发现从长远来看会带来革命性技术的基本现象.

“Partnerships are essential to realizing net zero goals,” said Argonne Director Paul Kearns. “Hga010皇冠软件下载很高兴扩大皇冠HGA010官方下载部国家实验室的专业知识,并与HETI合作,集中该地区可观的皇冠HGA010官方下载和工业资产, infrastructure, and talent on broad commercial deployment of needed technologies.”

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