accelerating the commercialization of lower carbon technologies

Chevron Studio links entrepreneurs with national lab and university partners to scale up and commercialize innovative, early-stage technologies that have the potential to enable a lower carbon future.

The program supports entrepreneurs as they source and discover potential technologies and provides technical assistance to enable development and scaling through field trials.

Chevron Studio is a partnership between Chevron Technology Ventures and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

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Entrepreneurs can browse intellectual property (IP) from universities and national labs in these technology focus areas.

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Carbon utilization

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Energy storage systems

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Hydrogen and renewable energy

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Solutions for a circular economy

news and announcements

q&a: chevron introduces unique clean energy studio to houston entrepreneur community

February 28, 2024

Calling all innovators looking for the next big climate technology — Chevron wants to help you find your next big opportunity....

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incubator plays matchmaker with businesses, new energy tech

September 9, 2023

Chevron has teamed up with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to form Chevron Studio, a technology incubator to bridge the gap between exciting new technologies and the market....

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3 houston innovators to know this week

August 7, 2023

Babur Ozden's Aquanta Vision Technologies, a Houston-based climate-tech startup, was selected to participate in the Scale-Up Phase of Chevron Studio, a Houston program that matches entrepreneurs with technologies to turn them into businesses. Aquanta's computer vision software completely automates the identification of methane in optical gas imaging, or OGI....

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