Port of Corpus Christi seeks to identify decarbonization opportunities

The Port of Corpus Christi has entered a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) at the U.S. Department of Energy. The agreement commits to advancing collaboration among the port, its tenants, and the NREL by identifying scalable energy transition and decarbonization projects that require techno-economic-analysis, modeling, testing and validation efforts unique to NREL’s capabilities. The MOU also calls for identifying and pursuing available local, state, U.S. Department of Energy and other federal funding opportunities.

The MOU defines a number of shared objectives, including scalable production, storage, use and export of renewable and/or low carbon intensity energy, and the integration of innovative renewable technologies and production systems that leverage the abundance of solar, wind and other renewable potential in and around the port.