Conventional Energy

30 years 'is not very much time' to get to net zero

BNN Bloomberg    ·    July 28, 2021

MITEI Senior Research Engineer Howard Herzog joins BNN Bloomberg to discuss the challenges facing the carbon capture and sequestration industry and the race to get to net zero.

Climate change goals and oil production are clashing in the U.S.

National Geographic    ·    July 19, 2021

Sergey Paltsev, deputy director of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, emphasizes the importance of reaching net-zero emissions as fast as possible. “By pushing natural gas—which is indeed cleaner than coal, but it’s still a fossil fuel that releases a lot of CO2 and more importantly, a lot of methane—we are actually hurting renewables,” says Paltsev.

Transmission upgrades could hold the key to New England clean energy goals

Vermont Public Radio    ·    April 21, 2021

Christopher Knittel (Sloan School of Management) discusses the challenges of gaining approval for new cross-state or cross-country transmission lines, which are essential to assisting New England in reaching its clean energy goals.