Developing World

Research dedicated to solving the toughest energy and energy-enabled challenges facing communities in the developing world

Assembling a solar-powered irrigation system from Khethworks Credit: Tata Center

Research

Rural electrification

New models help electrify rural India

Interconnections among energy, water, and food

The effects of water pumping in Pakistan's Indus Basin

Publications

Toward supplying food, energy, and water demand

February 2018

Emre Gençer

Solar Power Applications in the Developing World

January 2015

Robert Stoner

Interim Report for the Study: Natural Gas Monetization Pathways for Cyprus

October 2013

News

Podcast: Climate policy paths for Latin American and Asian nations

New system recovers fresh water from power plants; prototype installed on MIT’s Central Utility Plant

New energy studies class examines technical and social drivers of global energy systems

People

Antoine Allanore Assistant Professor

Materials Science and Engineering

Charles Cooney Professor

Chemical Engineering

Richard de Neufville Professor

Institute for Data, Systems, and Society

Esther Duflo Professor

Economics

Charles Fine Professor

Sloan School of Management

Ahmed Ghoniem Professor

Mechanical Engineering

David Hsu Assistant Professor

Urban Studies & Planning

Janelle Knox-Hayes Associate Professor

MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change; Urban Studies & Planning

Kent Larson Principal Research Scientist

MIT Media Lab

Dharik Mallapragada Postdoctoral Associate

MIT Energy Initiative

Leslie Norford Professor

Architecture

Rajeev Ram Associate Director and Professor

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Apurba Sakti Research Scientist

MIT Energy Initiative

Robert Stoner Deputy Director for Science and Technology

MIT Energy Initiative

Lawrence Susskind Professor

Urban Studies & Planning

James Wescoat Professor

Architecture

Jinhua Zhao Assistant Professor

Urban Studies & Planning