Power Distribution & Energy Storage

Research dedicated to developing the energy storage technologies and electricity delivery systems needed to enable the transition to a carbon free energy system

Key components of the hydrogen bromine battery, from Novel bromine battery: Small-scale demo, large-scale promise, Energy Futures Spring 2014 Credit: Stuart Darsch

SESAME

Evaluating the impacts of the global energy system

Saving heat until you need it

A new concept for thermal energy storage

Carbon-nanotube electrodes

Tailoring designs for energy storage, desalination

Reducing risk in power generation planning

Why including non-carbon options is key

Liquid tin-sulfur compound shows thermoelectric potential

Producing electricity from industrial waste heat

Better catalysts for energy storage devices

Providing a new understanding of catalysts

Utility of the Future

Discarded car batteries

Recovering material for novel solar cells

Novel bromine battery

Developing a battery to harness intermittent renewables

Microgrid

A small-scale, flexible, reliable source of energy

The Future of the Electric Grid

Theory of ultrafast li-ion battery materials

Explaining the high performance of a promising material

Lithium air batteries

New catalysts lead to unprecedented efficiency

Batteries from molten metals

Low-cost, long-lasting storage for the grid

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People

Lallit Anand Professor

Mechanical Engineering

Maryam Arbabzadeh Postdoctoral Associate

MIT Energy Initiative

Carlos Batlle Research Scholar

MIT Energy Initiative

Karl Berggren Professor

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Richard Braatz Professor

Chemical Engineering

Patrick Brown Former Postdoctoral Associate

MIT Energy Initiative

Fikile Brushett Associate Professor

Chemical Engineering

Olivier de Weck Professor

Aeronautics and Astronautics

Pablo Duenas-Martinez Research Scientist

MIT Energy Initiative

Nicola Ferralis Research Scientist; Program Manager, Energy Storage Center

Materials Science and Engineering

Betar Gallant Assistant Professor

Mechanical Engineering

Ahmed Ghoniem Professor

Mechanical Engineering

Livia Giordano Research Scientist; Program Manager, Energy Storage Center

Research Laboratory of Electronics

Naga Srujana Goteti Postdoctoral Associate

MIT Energy Initiative

Jeffrey Grossman Professor

Materials Science and Engineering

Bradford Hager Professor

Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science

Guannan He Postdoctoral Associate

MIT Energy Initiative

David Hsu Associate Professor

Urban Studies & Planning

Marija Ilic Senior Staff, MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Jeremiah Johnson Associate Professor

Chemistry

James Kirtley Professor

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Dharik Mallapragada Research Scientist

MIT Energy Initiative

Karthish Manthiram Professor

Chemical Engineering

Raanan Miller Executive Director, Electric Power Systems Center

MIT Energy Initiative

Tomás Palacios Professor

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Georgia Perakis Professor

Sloan School of Management

Rajeev Ram Associate Director and Professor

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Donald Sadoway Professor

Materials Science and Engineering

Apurba Sakti Research Scientist

MIT Energy Initiative

Richard Schmalensee Professor

Sloan School of Management

Nestor Sepulveda

Nuclear Science and Engineering

Yang Shao-Horn Professor

Mechanical Engineering

Choon Sooi Tan Senior Research Engineer

Aeronautics and Astronautics

Yogesh Surendranath Associate Professor

Chemistry

Haoshui Yu Postdoctoral Associate

MIT Energy Initiative