Kelly Sims Gallagher, dean of the Fletcher School at Tufts University and an expert on China’s energy landscape, addressed the global clean tech race between China and the United States in her keynote at Energizing@MIT: MITEI’s Annual Research Conference in 2025. Photo: Gretchen Ertl
MITEI’s corporate member program facilitates collaborations between industry and MIT to research, develop, and accelerate zero- and low-carbon solutions for the energy transition. A multi-tiered membership structure enables diverse private-sector companies to sponsor multidisciplinary “flagship” research programs with MIT faculty; contribute to energy-focused labs, programs, and centers at MIT; fund critical energy fellowships; support innovative energy concepts from proposals solicited across the campus; and participate in MITEI’s seminars, lectures, and colloquia. Along with financial support for research, analyses, and education, industry members contribute valuable perspectives and detailed knowledge of real-world conditions for practical scaling-up, deployment, and integration of decarbonization solutions.
Member highlights
- Through its research memberships and consortium memberships, MITEI works with companies primarily in the energy and power industries. The quality of our membership—and the community of energy and power thought leaders that we have created—continues to be a source of strength for MITEI. Thirty of these companies participate in MITEI’s Future Energy Systems Center.
- In FY26, MITEI continued its very close and intensive collaborations with its research members, allowing MITEI to maintain a robust research portfolio. Of special significance are the large, multi-year and multi-PI research projects, primarily those sponsored by Eni, Shell, and ExxonMobil. These projects provide value for MITEI members, who benefit from access to cutting-edge research and technology generated by MIT PIs and students, and for MIT groups that gain support to work on real-world research problems of direct interest and relevance to industry partners.
- MITEI is placing a special focus on business development in Japan, with the goal of developing synergies with this advanced economy that is leading the world in some important aspects of energy technology and policy.
MITEI’s member roster is reflective of MITEI’s mission to work across the broad industrial spectrum of energy production, conversion, delivery, and usage. A list of members is available here.
