<strong>New Energy Ventures</strong>

New Energy Ventures

At Williams, we are committed to making clean energy happen. Our people, asset footprint and ability to successfully adapt as a business over the last 100 years has established a strong foundation to deliver clean, affordable and reliable energy well into the future.

As one of the largest energy infrastructure companies in the United States, we see firsthand the critical role natural gas plays in a viable and sustainable low-carbon future. Natural gas-powered electricity generation enhances reliability of the U.S. electric power grid and allows for growth in renewable forms of energy. Natural gas is also a current solution to reduce emissions while meeting demand for clean energy.

In 2021, we launched Williams New Energy Ventures, a business development group focused on commercializing innovative technologies, markets and business models. New Energy Ventures collaborates with talent across Williams to evaluate and implement projects to grow our clean energy business.

Guiding principles prioritize our areas of focus and investment

While we continue to focus on immediate emissions reductions opportunities at our natural gas assets, scaling renewables and building a clean energy economy – we are also looking ahead at future innovations and technologies. We use the following guiding principles to prioritize our areas of focus and investment.

ADVOCATING FOR CLEAN ENERGY

Our climate commitment supports the shared aspirations of our customers, community partners and governments. The scale of the global climate challenge requires all stakeholders to work together to innovate and develop the needed infrastructure. We are engaging with customers, industry partners and governments to collaborate on ideas and opportunities to accelerate our clean energy future to help them achieve their sustainability goals. We understand that energy needs are local and distinct, and we are working with industry associations, regulators and governments to advocate for consistent policies that support retrofitting, siting and construction of clean energy infrastructure.

PROJECTS CREATING NEAR-TERM VALUE

We are delivering projects to create near-term value and demonstrate our commitment to a clean energy future.

NEW ENERGY VENTURES

Our plan to reduce emissions and innovate for the future.

New Energy Ventures

Our plan to reduce emissions and innovate for the future.

FUTURE INNOVATION

CCUS – Our Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) Development Program provides opportunity for natural gas to play an important role in the clean energy future. We can use our core competencies of project execution and safe operations to develop the significant infrastructure required to capture, transport and sequester CO2. To participate in the build-out of a CO2 economy, we are exploring:

Hydrogen – We are experts at treating, processing, storing and transporting gas, and this experience paired with our asset base provides opportunity to play a role in developing a new market with significant growth potential and to provide scale the hydrogen economy. We are actively working on projects such as:

Renewable Power Generation and Transmission – Our Renewable Power Generation and Transmission Program explores how we could apply our experience building and operating critical natural gas infrastructure to the clean power space. As our participation in the power segment grows with our Solar + Storage program, we will explore synergies including Onshore and Offshore Power Transmission. Williams has a long history of success both onshore and in the Gulf of Mexico. Our in-house engineering, operations, commercial and regulatory resources create an opportunity to connect offshore clean energy supplies to onshore networks. We will explore reusing existing offshore platforms and infrastructure for clean energy production.

Clean Energy Hubs – Our clean energy hub exploration includes developing partnerships to create economies of scale and meaningful emissions reductions. Many of these emerging opportunities have significant overlap and synergies with each other and our core natural gas business.

We are exploring concepts including a Williams Wyoming Clean Energy Hub to integrate renewable power, hydrogen, captured CO2 and methanation into our existing assets, balancing the intermittency of wind and solar power to create a dispatchable, clean molecule to meet energy demand.

Other projects include potential CCUS hubs with multiple partners working together to gather CO2 emissions at scale. Due to the immense capital investment required and the complex nature of carbon capture project execution, CCUS hubs are the primary approach to achieve economies of scale and meaningful emissions reductions.

Our blue hydrogen hub scoping initiative includes exploring the possibility of producing and transporting large volumes of hydrogen created from natural gas with carbon capture and storage or use.

Corporate Venture Program – We have developed a corporate venture program to invest in innovation. Corporate venturing and partnerships with startup incubators, such as Greentown Labs, as well as direct investment in Aurora Hydrogen and Context Labs demonstrates our commitment to innovation by fostering technologies at the forefront of the energy transition.  The program includes:

Carbon Markets – Our Carbon Markets Program will build our knowledge and capabilities in environmental markets. To improve carbon reduction efficiency, we will optimize environmental credits, including Renewable Energy Certificate (RECs) from solar, Renewable Identification Number (RINs) from RNG and carbon offsets generated from our own carbon reduction activities. As we advance our projects, we will use the environmental attributes for our own carbon reduction goals or sell the environmental attributes to generate returns and help our customers reduce their emissions.


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