33 News Items Found
March 24, 2023
Surge of Clean Energy Manufacturing Projects in Texas, U.S.
“If you think about what made the Gulf Coast the oil capital of the world, it’s not just the oil & gas resources,” said Center for Energy Studies’ Ken Medlock. “Investors can now see a pathway in these new green energy technologies where they couldn’t before.”
January 19, 2023
What Does the Future Hold for Natural Gas?
“Putin threw a boulder into the pond with the invasion of Ukraine, and the ripple effects will have lasting repercussions. The short-term impetus globally is one of getting as much LNG as possible to Europe,” Center for Energy Studies’ Ken Medlock told the Wall Street Journal.
July 26, 2022
Offshore Wind Farm Proposed for Gulf of Mexico
The Biden administration recently proposed two wind farms off the Texas and Louisiana coasts, but it’s too early to tell how quickly they will be built and how much they will cost. “The commercial appetite is there — it really is about the regulatory hurdles that exist,” said Kenneth B. Medlock III, the James A. Baker, III, and Susan G. Baker Fellow in Energy and Resource Economics and the senior director of the Center for Energy Studies. “There’s a lot of interest, without a doubt. Companies are actively lobbying to try to get these projects done.”
Read more at the Texas Tribune. June 26, 2022
Oil Execs to Say Biden Part of Fuel Price Problem
"In terms of the price of oil, the price of gasoline, there is no president that has that much power," said Ken Medlock, Center for Energy Studies senior director.
Read more at the Houston Chronicle. October 19, 2021
Ctr for Energy Studies a finalist for Climate Challenge Cup
The Texas Carbon Market, a carbon storage project led by the Center for Energy Studies, is a finalist in the first international Climate Challenge Cup competition! The innovative CES proposal, developed with United Kingdom partners Future Foods Solutions and Yorkshire Water, would help reduce local and regional carbon emissions with a goal of net zero.
Learn more at the Climate Challenge cup website.