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Taiwan’s Innovative Green Economy Roadmap (TIGER)

The Future of Energy Storage

New England renewables + Canadian hydropower

A pathway to clean electricity in 2050

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

Carbon Capture and Sequestration Technologies Program

Low-cost energy storage and energy sink technologies

Fluoride salt-cooled high temperature reactors

Utility of the Future

Discarded car batteries

Recovering material for novel solar cells

Novel bromine battery

Developing a battery to harness intermittent renewables

Underground storage of carbon dioxide

Towards a safer, more effective sequestration process

Microgrid

A small-scale, flexible, reliable source of energy

The Future of the Electric Grid

The Future of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle

Energy-efficient air conditioning

Broad applications for new, low-cost porous materials

High-performance flywheels for energy storage

Compact, durable motors that don't overheat

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

Nano-structured alloys against corrosion in advanced nuclear plants

Understanding corrosion in power plants & other systems

Public Awareness of Carbon Capture and Storage: A Survey of Attitudes toward Climate Change Mitigation

The Future of Nuclear Power

The Hawaii Carbon Dioxide Ocean Sequestration Field Experiment: A Case Study in Public Perceptions and Institutional Effectiveness

Publications

Modeling Impacts of Tracking on Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Photovoltaic Power

July 2019

Clean electricity procurement for electrolytic hydrogen: A framework for determining time-matching requirements

April 2023

Reforming retail electricity rates to facilitate economy-wide decarbonization

April 2023

Related news

MITEI’s Future Energy Systems Center launches 12 new projects to accelerate the energy transition

At their Spring Workshop, the Center kicked off a new set of energy projects, with topics ranging from optimizing energy storage to transporting hydrogen energy.

MIT Energy Initiative awards Seed Fund grants to six early-stage energy projects

From decarbonizing chemical processes to developing new types of batteries, the winning projects of this annual award aim to develop solutions targeting net-zero emissions.

EV battery breakthrough? Scientists find alternative to cobalt.

EnergyWire

Led by Mircea Dincă (Chemistry), MIT chemists developed a lithium-ion battery with a cathode based on organic materials—rather than scarce metals—decreasing the battery’s social and environmental costs.

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