West Gate at NREL is now accepting applications for its 5th Cohort. The program is seeking talented scientists, engineers, inventors, and founding entrepreneurs with promising technologies to commercialize and who are interested in embedding at NREL. The 2-year program will support selected innovators with non-dilutive funding, resources, and entrepreneurial mentorship over a two-year runway.

Weekly Energy Symposium ft. Santiago Grijalva

Texas is leading the emergence of a global hydrogen economy. Join us in Austin, at the University of Texas campus, for a full day of events curated for students, faculty, staff, industry, community engagement stakeholders, and policy leaders.

This year's Mitchell Sustainability Symposium will continue its focus on the intersection of sustainability and student education on UT Austin’s campus and beyond. We’ll look into the state of sustainability at UT Austin through a series of panel discussions, lectures, and student presentations. Dr. Adam Met, Adjunct Professor at Cambridge University, will provide the lunchtime keynote address.

BE Fellows is a global climate program founded by Bill Gates. We provide critical support to scientists, innovators, and entrepreneurs with early-stage breakthrough climate technologies - tech with substantial technical risk still to overcome. The Innovator program offers funding, active technology management, access to BE’s world-class network of partners and experts, and top-of-the-line entrepreneurship curriculum. These tools ensure early-stage startups have the resources they need to advance toward commercialization.

Weekly Energy Symposium ft. Wil Burns

The Energy Ventures Practicum is an opportunity for teams of business students, law students, policy students, and technologists to build up skills, capabilities and contacts to create a new venture in the energy sector. Objectives of the class are to provide a framework for commercializing innovations in the energy sector, and the tools that entrepreneurs need to frame and build businesses for this purpose. This class is open to graduate students from Business, Law, Policy, Engineering, and EER programs.

Weekly Energy Symposium ft. Adam Grosser

Interested in energy or innovation? Find Your Community at EnergizeUT. Learn about career trends in energy, environment, and entrepreneurship; engage with industry professionals; connect with students across diverse academic disciplines; and get plugged into the resources and opportunities UT has to offer.

Join us for the first-ever Hack the Heat Hackathon, a hands-on innovation sprint tackling real-world challenges at the intersection of energy, technology, and climate. ​We’re bringing together coders, creatives, engineers, data nerds, marketers, policy thinkers—and anyone passionate about sustainable solutions!