Funding opportunity for faculty and staff researchers sponsored by The Energy Institute partners to spark new, impactful and collaborative research in any field of energy, including business, law and policy, with an aim towards decarbonization and climate security. Funding up to $100,000 per project.

A collaborative comprised of non-profit research organizations, academia, and leading energy companies working to advance the clean hydrogen ecosystem in Texas, Southwest Louisiana, and along the U.S. Gulf Coast, and rapidly scale clean hydrogen supply and demand.

Building on the Permian Basin’s status at the center of the global energy economy and accelerate energy innovation and sustainability in the region well into the foreseeable future.

The Permian Basin has played a crucial role in making the United States one of the world's leading oil and gas producers. The Permian Dialog strives to establish a cooperative methane emissions monitoring network in the Permian Basin to provide decision-useful information to operators for cost-effective emissions reduction.

In February 2021, an extreme winter storm event caused a massive electricity generation failure in the state of Texas, which resulted in a loss of power for more than 4.5 million homes, at least 57 deaths across 25 Texas counties and over $195 billion in property damages. The Energy Institute convened a diverse expert committee, to assess the data and events of the winter storm blackout, to address the strong public need for reliable information about the fundamental causes of the storm crisis.

A multi-year, interdisciplinary study and interactive tool to better understand the costs and impacts associated with investment in the nation’s aging energy infrastructure.

Initiated by a group of legal scholars in the fall of 2018, this project aims to promote awareness and discussion of difficult and contentious tradeoffs implicit in the rapid decarbonization of the energy sector, or any other green energy transition. It has since expanded to include the participation of a wider group of policy scholars from other disciplines.

An interdisciplinary initiative to identify and quantify the full-system cost of electric power generation and delivery – from the power plant to the wall socket – to inform public policy discourse with comprehensive, rigorous and impartial analysis.

Landmark study from five Texas universities evaluating the size and potential scale of geothermal – the naturally occurring heat energy in the Earth’s subsurface – as an abundant clean energy resource in the State of Texas, as well as its potential to scale globally over the coming decades.

Seed grants awarded to 17 interdisciplinary research teams to help kickstart projects to accelerate the innovations needed to reduce the impact of fossil fuels on the environment.

Three-year research initiative from August 2019 until July 2022. Twelve teams were funded, leading to research publications, conference presentations and significant funding in follow-on grants from industry and government agencies.

This program provided opportunities for researchers to work together from the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and The University of Texas at Austin to address issues of mutual interest and need, bringing together the capabilities, facilities, and expertise from both organizations.