Climate & Environment

Research focused on energy’s impact on climate and the environment and how the sector’s negative impacts on both can be mitigated

Clouds over the Arctic Ocean Credit: Patrick Kelley, U.S. Coast Guard

Research

Assessing climate impacts of energy technologies

A new accounting of methane’s role

Regulating particulate pollution

Novel analysis yields new insights

The Future of Geothermal Energy

Publications

Enhanced Decision Support for a Changing Electricity Landscape

November 2017

Jesse Jenkins, Nestor Sepulveda

Business models for distributed energy resources: A review and empirical analysis

October 2017

Scott Burger

A review of the value of aggregators in electricity systems

September 2017

Scott Burger, Carlos Batlle, Ignacio Pérez-Arriaga

News

Earth Day 2019: Students share why they work for a more sustainable future

Renewables + storage ready to demonstrate competitiveness, MIT chemist says

Forbes Magazine

Solar, renewables, energy transformation reshaping the geopolitical landscape

Solar Magazine

People

Sallie Chisholm Institute Professor

Office of the Provost

Emre Gençer Research Scientist

MIT Energy Initiative

Ahmed Ghoniem Professor

Mechanical Engineering

Karen Gleason Associate Provost

Office of the Provost

Howard Herzog Senior Research Engineer

MIT Energy Initiative

David Hsu Assistant Professor

Urban Studies & Planning

Henry Jacoby Professor Emeritus

MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change; Sloan School of Management

Ruben Juanes Associate Professor

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Janelle Knox-Hayes Associate Professor

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

Jesse Kroll Associate Professor

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Heather Kulik Assistant Professor

Chemical Engineering

Kent Larson Principal Research Scientist

MIT Media Lab

Richard Lester Associate Provost and Professor

Office of the Provost

Dharik Mallapragada Postdoctoral Associate

MIT Energy Initiative

Karthish Manthiram Assistant Professor

Chemical Engineering

Youssef Marzouk Associate Professor

Aeronautics and Astronautics

Leslie Norford Professor

Architecture

Elsa Olivetti Assistant Professor

Materials Science and Engineering

Tomás Palacios Professor

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Sergey Paltsev Senior Research Scientist

MIT Energy Initiative; MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change

John Parsons Senior Lecturer

Sloan School of Management

Ronald Prinn Director and Professor

Center for Global Change Science; MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change

John Reilly Senior Lecturer

MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change; Sloan School of Management

Christoph Reinhart Associate Professor

Architecture

Gregory Rutledge Professor

Chemical Engineering

Apurba Sakti Research Scientist

MIT Energy Initiative

Richard Schmalensee Professor

MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change; Sloan School of Management

Nestor Sepulveda

Nuclear Science and Engineering

Yang Shao-Horn Professor

Mechanical Engineering

Eugene Skolnikoff Professor Emeritus

Political Science

Zachary Smith Assistant Professor

Chemical Engineering

Zoltan Spakovszky Professor

Aeronautics and Astronautics

Yogesh Surendranath Assistant Professor

Chemistry

Lawrence Susskind Professor

Urban Studies & Planning

Qiqi Wang Associate Professor

Aeronautics and Astronautics

James Wescoat Professor

Architecture

Karen Willcox Professor

Aeronautics and Astronautics