Its CEO John Berger, who founded the firm in Houston in 2012, said interest in the solar business is growing fast. One of those players is solar energy company Sunnova. "And it's one of those things that doesn't get as much attention, that we have the major wind players, solar players, storage players here in Houston." "We're already the renewables headquarters of the world," he said. Greater Houston Partnership President Bob Harvey said as much at the State of Energy event. Renewables are a big part of that conversation and in that regard, Houston is already a leader. In Bean's class, students learn about what that new low-carbon energy future might look like and how it might change the industry. "We have more skills and knowledge and understanding of plant operations and maintenance, of energy marketing and trading, of plant engineering, design and construction, of risk management, of commodity risk management, price risk management," he said. The professor for the class, institute director Greg Bean, said, yes, Houston is in a prime position to continue to be the nation's energy capital no matter the energy source. "But I think what they try to do is to say where do we actually have known skillsets right now and how can we apply them that's compatible with this new interest."Īrnold said part of it is the companies' need to attract young talent, people who want to see a vision for the future that includes new sources of energy.Īt the University of Houston, the Gutierrez Energy Management Institute is now offering a class called "energy transition." "Developing wind power, electric vehicle recharging stations," Arnold said. And it's no longer just for PR reasons like in the past. Major oil companies are seriously looking into low-carbon energy sources, said energy management professor Bill Arnold at Rice University. “And climate change is a real concern of theirs and we need to be responsive to that in how we run our core operations and how we invest to bring new technologies to bear." He said fossil fuels will make up the majority of the energy mix for a long time to come, "but we also have to respond to these other pressures and we operate at the invitation of the societies around the world, in the countries where we do business,” he said. The CEO of Chevron, Michael Wirth, was the keynote speaker. “That’s where ‘F**k tha Police’ originally came from, that feeling of ‘fight the establishment and fight for us.Greater Houston Partnership Chevron CEO Michael Wirth, right, chats with Bobby Tudor, chairman of Tudor, Pickering, Holt and Co., at the Greater Houston Partnership’s annual State of Energy event on Wednesday, Oct. “We’ve become so divided as a nation, and when you get that very strong feeling of ‘our side against their side,’ you are going to get songs like this,” Bakula says. The urgency in Lil Baby’s track to stand up for his community could become an anthem that stands the test of time, just like the older protest songs that still resonate. All have been featured on curated Black Lives Matter playlists across streaming platforms as listeners seek insight and catharsis from Black artists. Other releases include “I Can’t Breathe” by H.E.R., “2020 Riots: How Many Times” by Trey Songz and Keedron Bryant’s “I Just Wanna Live,” which went viral and landed the 12-year-old a record deal with Warner Records. “The Bigger Picture” is one of more than a dozen protest songs released by Black artists in the month following Floyd’s death-a response of unprecedented proportion in the streaming era, according to Nielsen’s Bakula.Īfter Lil Baby’s hit, Meek Mill’s “Otherside of America” was the second most-consumed new protest song in June with almost 18 million streams, followed by Beyonce’s “Black Parade,” which surpassed 7.5 million streams in just six days.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |