2024 Innovation Agora Partners
The Innovation Agora, in its 8th year, allowed for a culture of idea exchange, shared learning across multiple disciplines and technologies, and relationship-building as we explored emerging technologies, policies, financial models and solutions to the world’s greatest energy challenges.
CERAWeek Agora Partners helped support the convening of this global community and exciting innovation ecosystem who are committed to advancing the growing role of technology, innovation, and scalable pathways to address the challenges of the energy transition.
Agora Partners play a prominent role in this pioneering community, contributing their expertise and experiences to this immersive and dynamic environment.
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8 Rivers"8 Rivers is a Durham, North Carolina–based clean energy and climate technology company leading the global energy industry toward achieving net zero. Since 2008, 8 Rivers has been pioneering infrastructure-scale technologies that can drastically reduce or remove CO2 emissions. We’re proud to be a growing, world-class team of engineering and business experts working together to commercialize technologies and deliver projects across multiple sectors, with a focus on oxy-combustion and ultra-low carbon intensity processes. The 8 Rivers technology portfolio includes ultra-low carbon hydrogen production (8RH2), transformative low-carbon power cycles (Allam-Fetvedt Cycle), and hyper-efficient direct air capture (Calcite). With more than $1B in funding raised into our portfolio, we hold more CO2-related patents than any other entity in the world, and we are actively deploying our technology into projects in the U.S. and abroad. Our diversified suite of technologies was developed to help the hardest-to-decarbonize sectors achieve their net-zero goals by prioritizing the balancing of economics and science. 8 Rivers is speeding the arrival of a net-zero world where clean energy powers human prosperity.
Learn more at www.8rivers.com.
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ABB"ABB is a technology leader in electrification and automation, enabling a more sustainable and resource-efficient future. The company’s solutions connect engineering know-how and software to optimize how things are manufactured, moved, powered, and operated. Building on more than 140 years of excellence, ABB’s ~105,000 employees are committed to driving innovations that accelerate industrial transformation.
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Abu Dhabi National Energy Company, TAQA"Established in 2005, TAQA is a diversified utilities and energy group headquartered in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, and listed on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX: TAQA). TAQA has significant investments in power and water generation, transmission and distribution assets, as well as upstream and midstream oil and gas operations. The Company’s assets are in the United Arab Emirates as well as Canada, Ghana, India, Iraq, Morocco, Oman, the Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom and the United States.
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Accenture"Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent and innovation led company with 738,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Accenture Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients succeed and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.
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Amazon Web Services (AWS)"http://www.aws.com/energy -
Aramco"Saudi Aramco is a global integrated energy and chemicals company. We are driven by the core belief that energy is opportunity. From producing approximately one in every eight barrels of the world's oil supply to developing new energy technologies, our global team is dedicated to creating impact in all that we do. We focus on making our resources more dependable, more sustainable and more useful. This helps promote stability and long-term growth around the world.
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AVEVA"AVEVA is a global leader in industrial software. AVEVA sparks industrial ingenuity by connecting people with trusted information and insights to drive responsible use of the world’s resources. The company’s secure industrial cloud platform and applications enable businesses to harness the power of their information and improve collaboration with customers, suppliers and partners.
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Baker Hughes"Baker Hughes (NASDAQ: BKR) is an energy technology company that provides solutions for energy and industrial customers worldwide. Built on a century of experience and with operations in over 120 countries, our innovative technologies and services are taking energy forward—making it safer, cleaner and more efficient for people and the planet.
Learn more at bakerhughes.com.
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Bechtel"Bechtel is a trusted engineering, construction and project management partner to industry and government. For more than 125 years, extraordinary teams at Bechtel have been bringing to life inspiring projects, building a legacy of leadership, innovation, and progress.
Bechtel serves customers in the Energy; Infrastructure; Manufacturing & Technology; Mining & Metals; and Nuclear, Security & Environmental markets. Since 1898, we have delivered more than 25,000 projects in 160 countries on every continent. Today, our projects are supporting the global energy transition, providing vital transportation connections, supplying critical minerals, expanding advanced manufacturing, and strengthening national security infrastructure.
We live for a challenge. Our people are excited by tomorrow and the possibilities it holds to change lives and create a more prosperous, sustainable, connected, secure, and equitable world.
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Chevron Corporation"Chevron is one of the world’s leading integrated energy companies. We believe affordable, reliable and ever-cleaner energy is essential to achieving a more prosperous and sustainable world. Chevron produces crude oil and natural gas; manufactures transportation fuels, lubricants, petrochemicals and additives; and develops technologies that enhance our business and the industry. To advance a lower-carbon future, we are focused on cost efficiently lowering our carbon intensity, increasing renewables and offsets in support of our business, and investing in low-carbon technologies that enable commercial solutions.
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Context Labs"Turn Complex Data into Measurable Value. At Scale.
We Are an Enterprise Technology Company Invested in Building Trusted Climate Data.
Context Labs is dedicated to sourcing, organizing and contextualizing the world’s climate information. The company enables data to become trusted, shared and utilized as Asset Grade Data (AGD™), providing insights and solutions to inform markets.
Our mission is to provide the world’s trusted data fabric platform, delivering contextual Asset Grade Data (AGD™), using the Immutably™ Enterprise Data Fabric platform, deploying machine learning, Artificial Intelligence, and cryptographic blockchain technologies, for context-driven insights. The company was formed out of MIT research and is comprised of a leadership team that has been instrumental in the at-scale growth of the Internet, in prior companies.
Building on the Immutably™ Enterprise Data Fabric platform, the company has deployed customer service layers (1) Decarbonization-as-a-Service™ (DaaS™), tailored to accelerate the Global Energy Transition, and its (2) CLEAR Path™ platform to enable customers to optimize value creation with the highest quality carbon credits. Deployed on Microsoft Azure, with its enhanced security and OpenAI tooling, Context Labs enables a diverse ecosystem of instrumentation and sensor partners to provide digitally quantified integration on the Decarbonization-as-a-Service platform.
Currently the DaaS™ platform is the largest deployed enterprise decarbonization platform in the energy sector, supporting over 30% of the U.S. natural gas supply for the Global Energy Transition.
The Context Labs platform and product components are now available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace.
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Crusoe Energy Systems"Crusoe provides scalable, climate-aligned digital infrastructure optimized for high-performance computing and artificial intelligence. Our innovative approach reduces greenhouse gas emissions, supports the energy transition and maximizes resource efficiency by using wasted, stranded or clean energy to power our computing solutions.
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Dartmouth"The Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society at Dartmouth seeks to advance an affordable, sustainable, reliable energy and climate future by training the next generation of energy experts, leaders and citizens; supporting and catalyzing interdisciplinary, high-impact research; and engaging broad sectors of society in a range of programs, partnerships and other activities.
The Institute, which was launched in 2017 and is housed in Dartmouth’s West End Innovation District, operates as a hub of climate and energy research, teaching, learning and engagement at Dartmouth College. Our faculty, researchers and students work across disciplines and methodologies with partners in academia, industry, governmental, nonprofit and other organizations to develop and deploy innovative energy and climate solutions. Dartmouth is home to experts in climate modeling, climate and energy in cold regions, batteries, materials, carbon removal and management, environmental and societal impact, sustainability, platforms for data sharing and operational improvement, and other areas critical to mitigating the worst impacts of climate change and advancing an equitable energy future for society.
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Edison Electric Institute"The Edison Electric Institute (EEI) is the association that represents all U.S. investor-owned electric companies. Our members provide electricity for nearly 250 million Americans and operate in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The electric power industry supports more than 7 million jobs in communities across the United States. In addition to our U.S. members, EEI has more than 70 international electric companies as International Members, and hundreds of industry suppliers and related organizations as Associate Members.
Organized in 1933, EEI provides public policy leadership, strategic business intelligence, and essential conferences and forums.
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Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation"The Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) is responsible for delivering the UAE Peaceful Nuclear Energy Program and the development of the Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant, located in the Al Dhafra Region of Abu Dhabi Emirate. The Barakah Plant consists of four APR1400 nuclear reactors, and is the largest source of clean electricity in the UAE and wider Arab World today.
ENEC has made significant progress in the delivery of the UAE Peaceful Nuclear Energy Program. Three units at the Barakah Plant are operating commercially, while the fourth unit is online and due to commence commercial operations later this year. The plant is set to generate 40 TWh annually, providing 25% of the UAE’s electricity needs, reducing around 22.4 million tons of carbon emissions annually, which is equivalent to removing 4.8 million cars off the road every year.
The plant is integral to the UAE’s efforts to meet its growing electricity demands and achieving net zero by 2050. It serves as a role model for other nations seeking to join the nuclear industry.
ENEC is exploring opportunities to invest in large reactors in the UAE and abroad, along with advanced technologies like Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) and microreactors. ENEC has signed MoUs with a number of international partners in recent months as part of its ENEC ADVANCE program for SMRs and advanced reactors, and is open to partnerships with other nations to boost energy security and spearhead a required tripling of global nuclear energy capacity by 2050 to achieve Net zero.
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Enoda Ltd"Enoda is solving some of the most complex problems at the heart of the energy transition, so that economies can prosper on reliable, decarbonised, and affordable energy systems.
Enoda designs and develops advanced technology solutions for grid operators, to deliver network stability and resilience, while increasing capacity for greater integration of renewables such as wind and solar.
Integrated hardware and software solutions can slot into existing infrastructure, enabling the grid to become self-balancing, and the primary provider of system stability. Our solutions can help remove constraints to decarbonisation and address the soaring cost of system balancing.
Enoda ENSEMBLETM coordinates fleets of Enoda PRIME® exchangers, creating an intelligent energy system which balances power across the grid, coordinating variable demand and supply where needed, and providing low-carbon frequency and ancillary services.
Enoda’s PRIME® exchanger is active power flow hardware. It is a bi-directional, backwards-compatible replacement for multiple power-flow technologies in electrical substations, including the transformer. It can provide a perfectly resistive load to the network, independent of feeder and consumer behaviour. Prime exchangers can provide real-time electricity signal correction, delivering on-target frequency and voltage, load and phase balancing, and harmonics removal. This in turn can increase grid capacity, resilience, and stability close to the consumer in low-voltage distribution networks.
Enoda is founder-led and was established in 2021.
Enoda is headquartered in Edinburgh, UK.
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ExxonMobil"At ExxonMobil, we work to provide the fuels and chemicals that make modern life possible and support human progress. For us, providing the energy our global economy requires while also offering lower-emission solutions shouldn’t be an either/or choice; we like to think of it as an “and” equation, and that’s an equation we’re built to help solve.
Operating in more than 60 countries, we are constantly seeking solutions to meet society’s evolving needs – something ExxonMobil has been doing for more than 140 years.
At heart, we are a global team of 62,000 scientists, engineers, researchers, technicians, professionals and other employees, representing more than 160 nationalities, who are focused on safely meeting the world’s energy and product needs. Together, we’re determined to play a key role in a thoughtful transition to an energy-secure, lower-emissions future for society.
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Freeport-McMoRan"Freeport-McMoRan Inc. (Freeport) is a leading international mining company with headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona. Freeport operates large, long-lived, geographically diverse assets with significant proven and probable mineral reserves of copper, gold and molybdenum. Freeport’s portfolio of assets includes the Grasberg minerals district in Indonesia, one of the world’s largest copper and gold deposits; and significant mining operations in North America and South America, including the large-scale Morenci minerals district in Arizona and the Cerro Verde operation in Peru.
Freeport has a strong commitment to safety performance, environmental management and the communities where it operates. As a founding member of the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM), Freeport is committed to implementing ICMM’s Mining Principles, which serve as a best practice framework on sustainable development for the global mining and metals industry. Freeport also has achieved the Copper Mark, a comprehensive assurance framework designed to demonstrate the copper industry’s responsible production practices, at all 12 of its copper producing sites globally.
By supplying responsibly produced copper, Freeport is proud to be a positive contributor to the world well beyond its operational boundaries.
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Gecko Robotics"Gecko Robotics powers Facilities of the Future through Cantilever, our end-to-end solution that combines an AI-powered software platform with advanced robotics and industry-leading sensors to digitize and optimize operations. Data layers are rapidly collected, analyzed and integrated into intuitive digital twins and models, empowering real-time decision-making to increase the efficiency and safety of operations across the entire fleet of assets. This enables the world’s most important organizations to ensure the availability, reliability and sustainability of critical infrastructure. -
Greater Houston Partnership"The Houston Energy Transition Initiative (HETI) is an initiative of the Greater Houston Partnership, dedicated to strengthening Houston’s position as the Energy Capital of the World. HETI builds on the best of traditional energy skills and systems to leverage Houston’s industry leadership to accelerate global solutions for an energy-abundant, low-carbon future. HETI is a coalition of industry, academic and community partners working together to ensure the long-term economic competitiveness and advancement of the Houston region as leaders of the global energy transition. HETI is committed to strengthening Houston’s position as a leader in this effort by convening key leaders, advocating for sound public policy and attracting innovative companies who share our vision.
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Hanwha"Hanwha is one of the largest business enterprises in South Korea and a Fortune Global 500 company. Hanwha is committed to building a sustainable foundation for growth as we strengthen core capabilities in current businesses, including energy and materials, aerospace, shipbuilding, finance, construction, and retail and services. The energy business is a rapidly growing area where Hanwha is proactively leading renewable energy and green molecules, including hydrogen and LNG. Qcells ranks top in the global solar market including the U.S., and are currently expanding our renewable energy businesses into hydrogen and wind power. In addition, Hanwha is actively investing in the core technology of future clean energy and zero carbon solutions. With an integrated value chain across upstream, midstream, and downstream, Hanwha will be able to supply reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy solutions supporting the global energy transition.
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HIF Global"HIF Global is the world’s leading eFuels company, developing projects to convert hydrogen using low-cost renewable power into carbon-neutral eFuels that can be used in existing infrastructure. The name HIF represents the mission of the company: to provide Highly Innovative Fuels to make decarbonization of the planet possible. HIF USA, HIF Latam, HIF Asia Pacific, and HIF EMEA are wholly owned subsidiaries of HIF Global. HIF Chile is already producing eFuels in its Haru Oni Facility in Magallanes, and HIF USA has selected Matagorda County, Texas, as the location for its first large-scale eFuels facility.
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Hitachi Energy"Hitachi Energy is a global technology leader that is advancing a sustainable energy future for all. We serve customers in the utility, industry and infrastructure sectors with innovative solutions and services across the value chain. Together with customers and partners, we pioneer technologies and enable the digital transformation required to accelerate the energy transition toward a carbon-neutral future. We are advancing the world’s energy system to become more sustainable, flexible and secure while balancing social, environmental and economic value. Hitachi Energy has a proven track record and an unparalleled installed base in more than 140 countries. We integrate more than 150 GW of HVDC links into the power system, helping our customers enable more wind and solar. Headquartered in Switzerland, we employ more than 40,000 people in 90 countries and generate business volumes of over $10 billion USD.www.hitachienergy.com/us/en -
Johns Hopkins"Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering includes 10 academic departments and offers 16 bachelor’s, 21 master’s, and 10 doctoral degree programs for full-time, residential students. Through its Engineering for Professionals programs, it offers an additional 24 part-time and online master’s and more than 30 graduate certificate programs.
The school is also home to more than 25 interdisciplinary research centers and institutes, including the Institute for Assured Autonomy (IAA). The IAA is part of the university’s new Data Science and AI Institute, a hub for world-class scholars from diverse disciplines who are advancing research in data science, artificial intelligence and machine learning, with applications in critical and emerging fields.
Learn more at engineering.jhu.edu.
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Masdar"Masdar is one of the world’s fastest-growing renewable energy companies and a leading investor in renewables and green hydrogen. Since 2006, Masdar has been a pioneer in advancing the clean energy sector and is a key enabler of the UAE’s vision as a global leader in sustainability and climate action.
The company has developed and partnered in pioneering energy projects in more than 40 countries across six continents. Its portfolio of projects, which are either operational, under construction or under development, have a combined value of more than U.S.$30 billion, and a combined capacity of more than 20 GW―enough to power 5.25 million homes.
Masdar is targeting a renewable energy portfolio capacity of 100 GW by 2030, and is working to accelerate the energy transition by delivering clean energy solutions that support the tripling of global renewable capacity as part of the historic UAE Consensus agreed at COP28.
Masdar’s U.S. activities began in January 2019 with its the investment in the Rocksprings and Sterling wind farms in Texas and New Mexico. To date, Masdar has invested close to U.S.$1 billion in the U.S., with plans to build and operate a clean energy portfolio of 10 GW before the end of the decade.
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Microsoft"Transform the energy and resources industry and achieve net zero with technology innovation to deliver safe, reliable, clean energy for a sustainable future. With Microsoft, energy operators and providers have access to a global partner ecosystem and modern productivity platform at the scalability and reach they need with the security to protect their IP assets, operations, and data. By uniting productivity, intelligent cloud, intelligent edge, AI, and big data platforms, Microsoft enables companies to solve their most complex challenges, accelerate the energy transition, and deliver better outcomes.
Learn more at Sustainable Energy Solutions | Microsoft Industry
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MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI)"MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) links science, engineering, innovation, economics and policy to transform the world’s energy system.
Since its inception in late 2006, MITEI has become MIT’s hub for energy research, education and outreach. Through these three pillars, MITEI plays a catalytic role in accelerating responses to the many challenges facing our global energy system. MITEI’s mission is to develop low- and no-carbon solutions to efficiently, affordably and sustainably meet global energy needs while minimizing environmental impacts, dramatically reducing greenhouse gas emissions and mitigating climate change. To advance this mission, MITEI brings together researchers from across the Institute and facilitates collaborations with industry and government.
MITEI and its member companies and organizations support hundreds of research projects across the Institute. Led by MITEI, MIT continues to play an important role in advancing low-carbon energy technologies and our understanding of the underlying science—as well as in helping to inform future energy policy. Strategic collaboration with its industry members guided by sophisticated system-level modeling and analysis have long been and continue to be a hallmark of MITEI’s approach.
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NEI"The Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) is the leading policy and technical organization in the United States for the commercial nuclear industry. With the support of our members, we are shaping policy and regulation that promotes nuclear carbon-free energy around the world.
NEI’s membership represents the full spectrum of the commercial nuclear industry. Its diverse membership of over 300 members in 17 countries includes utilities, end users, reactor vendors and technology developers, every aspect of the nuclear supply chain, national labs, investment and financial firms, labor unions, and universities.
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A world powered by clean and reliable energy.
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Promote the use and growth of nuclear energy through efficient operations and effective policy.
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Northern Dynasty Minerals"Northern Dynasty (TSX:NDM; NYSE American: NAK) owns 100% of the Pebble Limited Partnership (Pebble Partnership), which is advancing the world-class Pebble Project in Alaska toward development. The Pebble Project is in federal permitting.
The Pebble Project is the world’s largest undeveloped copper-gold-molybdenum-silver-rhenium resource. The company is focused on designing, permitting, building and operating a modern mine that enhances the economic and social well-being of Alaskans.
Northern Dynasty is headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, and is publicly traded in Canada (TSX:NDM) and the United States (NYSE American:NAK). The Anchorage, Alaska-based Pebble Partnership manages the Pebble Project.
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NRG Energy"NRG Energy is a leading energy and home services company powered by people and our passion for a smarter, cleaner, and more connected future. A Fortune 500 company operating in the United States and Canada, NRG delivers innovative solutions that help people, organizations, and businesses achieve their goals while advocating for competitive energy markets and customer choice.
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Oil and Gas Climate Initiative"The Oil and Gas Climate Initiative is a CEO-led organization bringing together 12 of the world’s largest oil and gas companies to lead the industry’s response to climate change. It aims to accelerate action toward a net-zero emissions future consistent with the Paris Agreement. OGCI members are Aramco, bp, Chevron, CNPC, Eni, Equinor, ExxonMobil, Occidental, Petrobras, Repsol, Shell and TotalEnergies. Together, OGCI member companies represent almost a third of global oil and gas production.
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Oklo"Oklo is developing fast fission power plants to provide clean, reliable and affordable energy at scale. Oklo received a site use permit from the U.S. Department of Energy, was awarded fuel material from Idaho National Laboratory, submitted the first advanced fission custom combined license application to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and is developing advanced fuel recycling technologies in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. National Laboratories.
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Oxy"Oxy is an international energy company with assets primarily in the United States, the Middle East and North Africa. We are one of the largest oil and gas producers in the U.S., including a leading producer in the Permian and DJ Basins, and offshore Gulf of Mexico. Our midstream and marketing segment provides flow assurance and maximizes the value of our oil and gas. Our chemical subsidiary OxyChem manufactures the building blocks for life-enhancing products. Our Oxy Low Carbon Ventures subsidiary is advancing leading-edge technologies and business solutions that economically grow our business while reducing emissions. We are committed to using our global leadership in carbon management to advance a lower-carbon world.
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Palantir Technologies"Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) builds leading software platforms for data-driven operations and decision-making, dedicated to helping the world’s most vital institutions tackle complex challenges.
Palantir’s four principal software platforms — Palantir Gotham, Palantir Foundry, Palantir Apollo and Palantir AIP (Artificial Intelligence Platform) — power critical operations for defense and civilian government agencies worldwide, plus commercial enterprises across various sectors, from energy to manufacturing to pharmaceutical R&D. Palantir also donates software and services to select nonprofits dedicated to improving human lives.
Palantir was founded in 2003 by three software engineers, a venture capitalist and a philosopher with a mission to help intelligence agencies make better use of data while preserving privacy and civil liberties. As of late 2023, more than 3,800 Palantir employees work in offices around the globe, including in Denver, Palo Alto, Washington, D.C., New York, London, Paris, Sydney, Madrid, Munich, Tokyo and Zurich.
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Petroliam Nasional Berhad (PETRONAS)"Petroliam Nasional Berhad (PETRONAS) is a global energy and solutions company, ranked amongst the largest corporations on Fortune Global 500®.
We seek opportunities in energy investments both in hydrocarbon and renewables across the globe and maximize value through our integrated business model. Our portfolio includes conventional and unconventional resources as well as a diverse range of fuel, lubricants, and petrochemical products. This is further strengthened with a successful product delivery track record. Our customers are at the heart of everything that we do, and our businesses are anchored on meeting their needs.
Our technology is our differentiator and the key to ensuring excellence in all that we offer―energy, products, and solutions, as well as unlocking new business frontiers. Sustainability is at the core of everything that we do, as we believe in harnessing the good in energy to add quality to everyday lives. People are our strength and partners for growth. We believe in progressing with our partners in addressing the evolving needs in today’s changing energy landscape.
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Radia"Radia is an energy company building a unique aerial transportation solution, the WindRunner, to radically expand the scope and scale of the onshore wind energy industry. The world’s largest cargo aircraft, it will enable the deployment of the largest turbines to locations where they couldn’t logistically go or weren’t economically viable before and open new wind farm locations all over the world. This will make it possible for our partners to manufacture, deploy and operate the largest and best onshore wind turbines ever deployed – GigaWInd – and serve use cases for green energy that either aren’t being served or aren’t being served effectively today. Simultaneously, Radia is developing a world-class portfolio of wind energy projects to leverage WindRunner and partnering with the world’s largest energy and industrial companies to support their energy transition plans. All this will be backed by safe, reliable and rapid aerial logistics and underpinned by outstanding engineering and world-class technoeconomic analysis.
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Rice University"Located on a 300-acre forested campus in Houston, Texas, Rice University is consistently ranked among the nation’s top 20 universities by U.S. News & World Report. Rice has highly respected schools of architecture, business, continuing studies, engineering, humanities, music, natural sciences and social sciences and is home to the Baker Institute for Public Policy. With 4,574 undergraduates and 3,982 graduate students, Rice’s undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio is just under 6-to-1. Its residential college system builds close-knit communities and lifelong friendships, just one reason why Rice is ranked No. 1 for lots of race/class interaction, No. 2 for best-run colleges and No. 12 for quality of life by the Princeton Review. Rice is also rated as a best value among private universities by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance.
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RWE"RWE is leading the way to a green energy world. With its investment and growth strategy Growing Green, RWE is contributing significantly to the success of the energy transition and the decarbonization of the energy system. Around 20,000 employees work for the company in almost 30 countries worldwide. RWE is already one of the leading companies in the field of renewable energy. Between 2024 and 2030, RWE will invest 55 billion euros worldwide in offshore and onshore wind, solar energy, batteries, flexible generation, and hydrogen projects. By the end of the decade, the company’s green portfolio will grow to more than 65 gigawatts of generation capacity, which will be perfectly complemented by global energy trading. RWE is decarbonizing its business in line with the 1.5-degree reduction pathway and will phase out coal by 2030. RWE will be net zero by 2040, fully in line with the company’s purpose—Our energy for a sustainable life.
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Siemens Energy"Siemens Energy is one of the world’s leading energy technology companies. The company works with its customers and partners on energy systems for the future, thus supporting the transition to a more sustainable world. With its portfolio of products, solutions and services, Siemens Energy covers almost the entire energy value chain – from power generation and transmission to storage. The portfolio includes conventional and renewable energy technology, such as gas and steam turbines, hybrid power plants operated with hydrogen, and power generators and transformers. Its wind power subsidiary Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) makes Siemens Energy a global market leader for renewable energies. An estimated one-sixth of the electricity generated worldwide is based on technologies from Siemens Energy. Siemens Energy employs around 96,000 people worldwide in more than 90 countries.
Learn more at siemens-energy.com.
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SLB"SLB (NYSE: SLB) is a global technology company that drives energy innovation for a balanced planet. With a global footprint in more than 100 countries and employees representing almost twice as many nationalities, we work each day on innovating oil and gas, delivering digital at scale, decarbonizing industries, and developing and scaling new energy systems that accelerate the energy transition.
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SoCalGas"Headquartered in Los Angeles, SoCalGas® is the largest gas distribution utility in the United States. SoCalGas delivers affordable, reliable, and increasingly renewable gas service to over 21 million consumers across 24,000 square miles of Central and Southern California. We believe gas delivered through the company's pipelines will continue to play a key role in California's clean energy transition—providing electric grid reliability and supporting wind and solar energy deployment.
SoCalGas' mission is to build the cleanest, safest and most innovative energy infrastructure company in America. In support of that mission, SoCalGas aspires to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in its operations and delivery of energy by 2045 and to replace 20 percent of its traditional natural gas supply to core customers with renewable natural gas (RNG) by 2030. Renewable natural gas is made from waste created by landfills and wastewater treatment plants. SoCalGas is also committed to investing in its gas delivery infrastructure while keeping bills affordable for customers. SoCalGas is a subsidiary of Sempra (NYSE: SRE), an energy infrastructure company based in San Diego.
For more information visit socalgas.com or connect with SoCalGas on Twitter (@SoCalGas), Instagram (@SoCalGas) and Facebook.
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Stanford University's Precourt Institute for Energy"Stanford University’s Precourt Institute for Energy leads the university’s efforts in energy research and education, from basic science and technology to policy and business. The Precourt Institute, its initiatives and centers fund research, help educate the next generation of leaders in the energy sector and promote the results of sustainable energy efforts across campus. It also builds collaborations globally with business executives, investors, entrepreneurs, policy makers and other researchers in pursuit of sustainable, affordable, secure energy for all people. The Precourt Institute and other Stanford energy programs organize conferences and workshops throughout the year.
Corporations, government, civic organizations and individuals can interact with Stanford Energy in a variety of ways. Members of industrial affiliate and sponsored-research programs at the Precourt Institute and elsewhere on campus support Stanford energy research and education. The programs also provide many opportunities for interaction with faculty members and students, as do Stanford’s internship programs. Stanford offers a professional education program on energy. The StorageX International Symposium and Stanford Energy Seminar are open to all who are passionate to learn about and advance the global energy transition.
Learn more at energy.stanford.edu, energy.stanford.news and energy.stanford.edu/engage, and subscribe to the Stanford Energy channel on YouTube.
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Svante Technologies"Svante is a purpose-driven, leading carbon capture and removal solutions provider. The Vancouver, Canada-based company manufactures nanoengineered filters and modular rotary contactor machines that capture and remove CO2 from industrial emissions and the air in an environmentally responsible manner. Svante is on the 2024 Global Cleantech 100, the XPRIZE Foundation’s XB100―World’s Top 100 Deep Tech Companies and was ranked second among private companies in the Corporate Knights’ Future 50 Fastest Growing Sustainable Companies.
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Techint"The Techint Group is a global organization with more than 75 years of experience in steelmaking, engineering and construction, energy exploration, metals and mining, and in research-oriented healthcare institutions.
The Techint Group is comprised of six main companies: Tenaris, Ternium, Techint Engineering & Construction, Tenova, Tecpetrol and Humanitas; all are global or regional leaders in their fields with distinct business objectives and strategies.
Techint Group companies promote health and safety among employees, operate with care for the environment, establish transparent and constructive relations with local communities, foster long-term relationships with customers and suppliers, invest in human resources, pursue quality, excellence, and technological development for a long-term and sustainable business.
In 2022, the Techint Group had total revenues of USD 33.6 billion and 60,000 employees worldwide.
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Tenaris"Tenaris is a leading global manufacturer and supplier of steel pipe products and related services for the world’s energy industry and other industrial applications.
Our customers include many of the world’s leading oil and gas companies and our revenues amounted to US$ 11.8 billion in 2022. We operate an integrated network of steel pipe manufacturing, research, finishing and service facilities with industrial operations in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Africa.
Our mission is to deliver value to our customers through product and process innovation, manufacturing excellence, supply chain integration, technical assistance, and customer service, aiming to reduce risk and costs, increase flexibility and improve time-to-market.
Wherever we operate, we are committed to safety and minimizing our impact on the environment, providing opportunities for our people, and contributing to the sustainable development of our communities.
Our team of 25,000 people worldwide seeks constant improvement by sharing knowledge across a single global organization.
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TerraPower"TerraPower is a nuclear innovation company that guides projects from research to reality. Founded by Bill Gates and other visionaries, our mission is to use nuclear science to solve some of the world’s greatest challenges. We are redefining what nuclear energy can be with the Natrium™ reactor and energy storage system―providing clean, flexible baseload power at a competitive cost. The Natrium reactor is being demonstrated at a retiring coal facility and will be operational this decade. Our dedicated team also advances solutions to decarbonize industry beyond electricity, and TerraPower Isotopes develops processes to extract radioisotopes as raw materials for use by cancer drug developers.
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Ultra Safe Nuclear"Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC), a U.S. company headquartered in Seattle, is a global leader and strong vertical integrator of nuclear technologies and services, on Earth and in space. The company produces the Micro-Modular™ reactor (MMR®), TRISO-based Fully Ceramic Microencapsulated (FCM®) nuclear fuel and develops nuclear power systems and propulsion systems based on its technology.
The company has active micro-reactor deployment projects in Canada at the Canadian Nuclear Laboratories in Chalk River, in the United States at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Additional units are in development in the United Kingdom through the Advanced Modular Reactor (AMR) program and in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Southeast Asia.
USNC is committed to opening new markets around the world for safe, commercially competitive, socially responsible power and heat from nuclear energy. Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation is Reliable Zero-Carbon Energy. Anywhere.
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Vale Base Metals"Vale Base Metals, the holding entity for Vale’s energy transition metals business, is one of the world’s largest producers of high-quality nickel and an important producer of copper and responsibly sourced cobalt. With a corporate presence in Toronto, Canada, and operations in Newfoundland & Labrador, Ontario, Manitoba, Indonesia, Brazil, the United Kingdom and Japan, the business delivers critical building blocks for a cleaner, greener future. -
World Energy Cities Partnership"The World Energy Cities Partnership (WECP) connects leading energy cities on all continents that are committed to fostering the transition to a more sustainable energy future. WECP cities are home to many of the world’s largest energy companies that are leading initiatives to build a lower-carbon energy future. WECP cities are working with industry to develop the full range of energy solutions to power the world today and into tomorrow.
As hubs for the global energy sector, WECP Mayors are leading voices on the most pressing challenges facing the urban landscape today, including sustainable economic development, climate action, and building more resilient cities. Our member cities are also uniquely positioned to serve as laboratories of innovation, collaborating with industry and academic partners to accelerate technology advancement and provide a fertile environment for new initiatives.
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Xcoal Energy & Resources"Xcoal Energy Resources is a privately-owned global coal marketing and logistics company headquartered in Latrobe, Pennsylvania (USA). A +100-person team, with a “customer first” mentality is positioned throughout 20 global offices.
Xcoal specializes in marketing metallurgical, thermal, and anthracite coals from around the world, with a focus on supply from the U.S. and Australia. Xcoal utilizes innovative and creative logistical processes to ensure that Xcoal provides customers with reliable service, stable quality, and consistent supply.
Xcoal is involved in coal mine development, financing, and related infrastructure projects and are actively pursuing investment opportunities in the global coal supply chain.
XLNG Energy & Resources was developed to market and deliver alternative forms of energy to the global marketplace. XLNG has access to abundant U.S. shale gas supply in close proximity to LNG liquefaction plants and has experience sourcing LNG from other global supply basins as well.
XLNG will build on Xcoal’s marketing infrastructure and commercial relationships, while utilizing a well-established and successful business model to deliver gas to our customers.
https://www.xcoal.com/
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