Industrial Affiliates Programs

Industrial Affiliates Programs at Stanford provide a mechanism for multiple faculty and multiple companies to discuss and explore broad research topics in a pre-competitive environment.

Affiliates Programs follow shared guidelines that govern member access to Stanford scholars and ensure academic freedom. Typical membership benefits include invitations to meetings and workshops, opportunities to engage with program faculty and students, opportunities to recruit students, and invitations to send visiting scholars.

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All affiliate programs in the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, along with total income from affiliate members to each program during fiscal year 2023 (9/1/2022 - 8/31/2023). Mineral-X did not launch until 2023 and therefore no funds are listed. The Stanford Project on Deepwater Depositional Systems (SPODDS) stopped operating in 2022 and is not listed. 
Industrial Affiliates ProgramIncomeAffiliate Members 
Basin Processes and Subsurface ModelingFY23: $259,400Basin Processes and Subsurface Modeling affiliate members 
Mineral XFY23: No FundingMineral X affiliate members 
Natural Gas InitiativeFY23: $930,000Natural Gas Initiative affiliate members 
Smart Fields ConsortiumFY23: $299,985Smart Fields Consortium affiliate members 
Stanford Center for Carbon StorageFY23: $500,000Stanford Center for Carbon Storage affiliate members 
Stanford Center for Earth Resources ForecastingFY23: $410,000Stanford Center for Earth Resources Forecasting affiliate members 
Stanford Center for Induced and Triggered SeismicityFY23: $150,000Stanford Center for Induced and Triggered Seismicity affiliate members 
Stanford Earth Sciences Algorithms and Architectures InitiativeFY23: $80,000Stanford Earth Sciences Algorithms and Architectures Initiative affiliate members 
Stanford Earth imaging ProjectFY23: $715,000Stanford Earth imaging Project affiliate members 
Stanford Rocks and Geomaterials ProjectFY23: $51,000No current affiliates 
SUETRI-A:Subsurface Engineering for the Energy TransitionFY23: $239,955SUETRI-A:Subsurface Engineering for the Energy Transition affiliate members 
SUETRI-B: Stanford University Energy Transition Research InstituteFY23: $329,985SUETRI-B: Stanford University Energy Transition Research Institute affiliate members 
SUETRI-D: Research Consortium on Innovation in Energy Systems Monitoring and TestingFY23: $139,975SUETRI-D: Research Consortium on Innovation in Energy Systems Monitoring and Testing affiliate members 
SUPRI-Tides: Analysis of Earth TidesFY23: $20,000SUPRI-Tides: Analysis of Earth Tides affiliate members 
Stanford Energy Corporate AffiliatesFY23: $3,471,450  
- Bits & Watts InitiativeBits and Watts Initiative affiliate members 
- Hydrogen InitiativeHydrogen Initiative affiliate members 
- StorageX InitiativeStorageX Initiative affiliate members 
- Sustainable Finance Initiative