SPECIAL REPORT: Texas Feels the Iran Oil Shock with Michael Webber Even with more domestic energy production, Texas is still exposed to global oil shocks, higher fuel costs, and infrastructure limits triggered by the war in Iran.
Build Fast or Fall Behind with Michael Webber For a long time, the basic story in U.S. energy was stability. Demand growth had flattened, efficiency was doing more work than most people realized, and expansion was steady.
Professor Fred Beach | S3E3 | Science, Y’all! Professor Fred Beach is the Director of the Earth and Energy Resources graduate program within the Jackson School of Geosciences. Hear how taking things apart and putting them back together as a child matured into a lifelong curiosity and passion for science. Dr. Beach discusses his childhood growing up on a farm, his first career serving in the Navy, and his second career in academia. Tune in to hear all this and more!
It’s Going to Happen First in Texas with Nat Bullard (Part 2) We talk a lot about the grid of the future. The truth is, that future is already showing up in Texas.
It’s Going to Happen First in Texas with Nat Bullard (Part 1) Texas has plenty of energy stories. The harder part is finding the signal through the noise of endless filings.
Building a Solar Supply Chain in Texas with T1’s CEO Daniel Barcelo Solar accounts for 75% of new power globally and China makes almost all of it. Can entrepreneurs tip the scales in America’s favor?
Alice | ‘Hub City of South Texas’ and an Energy Powerhouse That Once Was When wildcatters struck oil in Jim Wells County in the 1920s, politicians in Alice, Texas saw opportunity beyond the oil patch. The town, which legend has it was named after the daughter of Richard King, the founder of King Ranch, adopted the slogan, “The Hub City of South Texas” due to its proximity to San Antonio to the north, the port of Corpus Christi to the east, and Laredo and the Mexican border to the south. The branding worked. Throughout the 1960s and 70s, Alice was a distribution hub for supplies and construction materials throughout south Texas. Drilling and service companies set up oil rig yards in town and employed locals.
Innovation and Investment in ERCOT: Recorded Live from GCPA Recorded at Gulf Coast Power Association’s Fall Conference, this conversation with four Texas technology innovators explored load growth, new technologies, and the future of the ERCOT grid.
S&P Global – Oil and gas to be big in energy, power markets through 2050: experts Surging power demand, driven by data centers and the need to serve energy-impoverished people in developing nations, require an “all of the above” strategy in which oil and gas continues to supply about half global needs, executives and experts said Sept. 12.
S&P Global – Data center growth in Texas often comes with generation: experts The Electric Reliability Council of Texas faces the challenge of integrating by 2030 as much as 188 GW of new large loads, much of it possibly inflexible data center load, which is prompting data centers to develop alongside new generation, experts say.