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Partners:

The University of Houston is leading the way in energy research, education and collaboration aimed at solving the challenges we face every day. UH is partnering with key governmental entities and leaders in industry on several important initiatives.

Lone Star Wind Alliance

The University of Houston is the general manager of the Lone Star Wind Alliance, a public/private partnership of universities, government agencies and corporate partners formed to support the economic development of renewable wind energy throughout Texas and the nation. UH is receiving technical and operational assistance from the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory to design, construct and operate a state-of-the-art wind turbine blade testing facility at Ingleside, Texas.


Center for Industrial Partnerships

The University of Houston’s Center for Industrial Partnerships helps create joint research enterprises between commercial industry and the university. The center helps foster collaborative efforts using the university’s fundamental research and educational resources to solve technological challenges for Houston’s business and industrial communities. It helps facilitate research across the campuses with off-campus researchers and industry partners and benefits university researchers, staff and students, as well as investors and entrepreneurial companies.

Residential Electricity Demand Reduction

The University of Houston’s Texas Learning & Computation Center is partnering with the city of Houston to create a Web site designed to encourage people to monitor and reduce their residential energy usage. Once online, the Web site will allow consumers to compare the electricity consumption in their ZIP codes with the consumption in others. The site, the first of its kind in the nation, will draw on property size and property age data to further put usage information into context.

Helping Secure Our National Energy Resources

University of Houston researchers are working with the U.S. Department of Defense to develop innovative techniques and devices to help defend both the troops and the homeland, including the nation’s oil supply.