Canary Live Houston

Canary Media is excited to bring our live event series to Houston! We invite you to join us on Thursday, January 30, 2025, 5:00–9:30 p.m. at Greentown Labs.

Check out the agenda below, designed by Canary's senior reporter, Julian Spector. Featured guests include David Roberts, Tim Latimer, Claire Hao, Naomi Klinge, and Doug Lewin.

 

Make sure to reserve your spot by getting a ticket today. Space is extremely limited!

 

On stage: Conversations with clean energy experts.

Off stage: Drink, eat, and socialize with clean energy leaders, investors, inventors, public leaders, and advocates.

 

 

 

Claire Hao is a reporter on the Houston Chronicle business desk covering the Texas power grid, the clean energy transition, and other electricity-related topics. She previously worked at the San Francisco Chronicle and has written for the news desks of Bloomberg Law and the Chicago Tribune as well as for the editorial board of the Washington Post. Claire graduated from the University of Michigan.

 

Naomi Klinge covers energy and petrochemicals for the Houston Business Journal. Prior to joining the HBJ, she reported for Upstream. Naomi graduated with degrees in journalism and political science from the University of Missouri.

 

Tim Latimer is the CEO of Fervo Energy, which delivers 24/7 carbon-free energy through development of next-generation geothermal power. He began his career as a drilling engineer with BHP Billiton, where he worked in the Permian and Eagle Ford basins. He holds a degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Tulsa.

 

Doug Lewin is author of the Texas Energy and Power Newsletter and host of the Energy Capital Podcast. He is also founder and CEO of Stoic Energy Consulting, serving clients in Texas working to accelerate the use of clean energy, reduce pollution, grow the clean energy economy, and increase equity and justice.

 

David Roberts, founder of the Volts newsletter and podcast, is a long-time writer and commentator on clean energy and politics. Previously, he covered climate change and clean energy for five years at Vox and 10 years at Grist. He lives in Seattle with his family, two dogs, and a cat.

 

Julian Spector is a senior reporter at Canary Media, where he covers batteries and emerging technologies to store clean energy and unlock a carbon-free grid. He also reports on the budding clean hydrogen industry, and chases down clean energy breakthroughs in far-flung locales. He graduated from Duke University and still misses Carolina barbecue, but enjoys investigating local cuisine wherever his reporting takes him.

 

 

Hors d'oeuvres, wine, beer, and non-alcoholic beverages served

 

Texas dominates America’s fossil-fuel industry, but it also has become the nation’s most dynamic market for wind, solar, and battery power. An ace team of Texas journalists will unpack what comes next in the major Texas energy-transition storylines: the rise of renewables, the sudden emergence of batteries, massive demand growth for AI and industry, a potential hydrogen boom, the future of nuclear, and more.

 

 

• Claire Hao, Houston Chronicle

• Naomi Klinge, Houston Business Journal

• Doug Lewin, Texas Energy and Power Newsletter & Energy Capital Podcast

• Julian Spector, Canary Media

 

Hors d'oeuvres, wine, beer, and non-alcoholic beverages served

 

Entrepreneur Tim Latimer left a career in fracking to bring the technological advances he’d seen to the geothermal industry. In just a few years, he’s led startup Fervo Energy from concept to large-scale power-plant construction, and created a viable pathway for fossil-fuel professionals to make a difference in clean energy production. Journalist and podcaster David Roberts will talk with Tim about how Fervo achieved this rapid success and what the clean energy industry can learn from it.

 

 

• Tim Latimer, Fervo Energy