Thanks to a $4M grant from the Welch Foundation, a UH research team is working to change how plastics are manufactured and recycled.

Chile plans to nationalize its vast reserves of lithium, an element essential for development of batteries and electric vehicles. That could force new public-private partnerships for leading suppliers Albemarle and SQM.

Repurposing the Gulf of Mexico’s life-expired oil and gas platforms for renewable energy could one day see them serving as hydrogen refuelling stops, writes UH Energy’s Ram Seetharam.

University of Houston’s Energy Transition Institute (ETI) challenged students to address the critical issue of dealing with plastic waste and creating a real-world circular economy. Over 60 students participated in the first Circular Plastics Challenge. Winners and other finalists offer innovative, sustainable solutions.

The Energy and Sustainability minor provides business and non-business majors an interdisciplinary approach to broad issues in energy and sustainability.

UH offers an 8-week, online executive education course that examines the technology, economics, and challenges of Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS). The UH CCUS course is taught by world recognized experts from the energy industry.

A team of University of Houston researchers has developed a series of digital applications to make energy industry processes more efficient. The three innovative calculators can be accessed online for free.

The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded an LSU-led consortium a $4.9 million grant to support the first phase of the Pelican Gulf Coast Carbon Removal project. The Pelican Consortium, which includes Shell and the University of Houston, will evaluate the feasibility of building a direct air capture (DAC) hub in Louisiana.

A University of Houston engineering research team is pioneering a new method, based on percussion, to detect pipeline elbow erosion.