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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

Can hydrogen become part of the climate solution?

The MIT Energy Initiative’s 2019 Spring Symposium investigates the resurgence of global interest in low-carbon hydrogen.

MIT Energy Initiative awards seven Seed Fund grants for early-stage energy research

Annual MITEI awards support research on methane conversion, efficient energy provision, plastics recycling, and more.

Catherine Drennan: Catalyzing new approaches in research and education to meet the climate challenge

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 Research Scientist

MIT Energy Initiative
Karthish Manthiram Assistant Professor

Chemical Engineering
Youssef Marzouk Associate Professor

Aeronautics and Astronautics
Heidi Nepf Donald and Martha Harleman Professor

Civil and Environmental Engineering
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
Roger Summons Schlumberger Professor

Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science
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