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Powering the Future: The Grid, Load Growth, and Data Centers

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Category: Corporate Innovators, Founders & Startups, Houston Energy and Climate Startup Week, Investors & Capital, Networking

WHEN

Tuesday

September 16, 2025
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm CDT

WHERE

4201 Main St.
Houston, TX 77002

what

Register Here: https://lu.ma/01386qka

How can we meet surging energy demand from AI / data center growth, plus the strains it will place on our grid, while reducing emissions? How can we balance reliability, competitiveness, climate imperatives, and speed? How can we modernize our grid, at speed and scale?

​And, critically – what are all the headlines on this topic getting wrong?

Join 4 leading practitioners in the space for a look behind the curtain on what’s really happening to meet this load-growth moment.

​Panelists

​Michael Skelly; CEO, Grid United
David Berry; CEO, Cloverleaf Infrastructure
Arushi Sharma Frank; Senior Advisor, Emerald AI
Tom Nudell; CEO, Piq Energy

Thank you to Houston Energy + Climate Startup Week for putting together an excellent schedule; we’re glad to be part of it. Please consider sticking around for Activate’s “Meet the Cohort” event immediately after, also at the Ion. And make sure to register for New Climate Ventures’ HECSW Afterparty after Activate at Axelrad Beer Garden, a short walk from the Ion – a chance to meet and mingle with 200+ other climate tech leaders from around Houston, free of cost.

New Climate Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in innovative carbon reduction and avoidance technology companies. We take an active and diversified investment approach that leverages our energy, food/ag tech, climate tech, traditional tech, finance, regulatory, market analysis, and investing experience. At New Climate Ventures, we partner with entrepreneurs to navigate the early stages of company development and growth by applying our operational, investment, team-building, and mentoring experience and providing access to our global network of investors, startups, and corporations to help founders achieve success.

PARKING

Ion District Parking Garage

Enter 4111 Fannin Street into your GPS for directions directly to this parking garage, located a block from the Ion. Parking in the Ion District Garage is free for the first two hours.

Red Parking Lot

Enter 4203 Fannin Street into your GPS for directions directly to the red parking lot, located across the street from the Ion. This lot is for overflow guest parking and tenant parking and is free for the first three hours.

For more information and access to pay online for parking in the red lot, click here.