At this workshop, we will have kick-off meetings for the newest set of consortium projects on topics ranging from hydrogen supply, to electricity rate design, to carbon capture, to energy storage and low-carbon liquid energy carriers, to name a few.
| Thursday, September 15 | |
| 7:45-8:45 am ET | Breakfast and registration |
| 8:45-9:15 am ET | Welcome and framing Randall Field, Executive Director, Future Energy Systems Center |
| 9:15-9:45 am ET | Accelerating commercial building electrification through science-based decision-making toolkit Siqi Zheng, STL Champion Professor of Urban and Real Estate, Sustainability, MIT Center for Real Estate |
| 9:45-10:15 am ET | Ensuring a financially sustainable, just, and inclusive energy transition Tim Schittekatte, Postdoctoral Associate, MIT Sloan School of Management |
| 10:15-10:30am ET | Break |
| 10:30-11:00 am ET | Liquid air energy storage technoeconomic analysis Paul Barton, Lammot du Pont Professor of Chemical Engineering, MIT Department of Chemical Engineering |
| 11:00-11:30 am ET | Cost-performance analysis and benchmarking of CO2 capture systems for hard-to-abate industries Betar M. Gallant, Associate Professor and the American Bureau of Shipping Career Development Professor, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering |
| 11:30 am-12: 15 pm ET | Breakout discussion on projects For in-person attendees only Center Members will have the opportunity to discuss the projects presented in the previous sessions further with the project team members. Liquid air energy storage technoeconomic analysis |
| 12:15-1:15 pm ET | Lunch |
| 1:15-1:45 pm ET | Comparative assessment of low-carbon liquid energy carriers for long-haul trucking William H. Green, Hoyt C. Hottel Professor in Chemical Engineering, Postdoctoral Officer, MIT |
| 1:45-2:15 pm ET | Adaptive optimization and learning for daily operation of clean power systems Andy Sun, Iberdrola-Avangrid Professor of Electric Power Systems; Associate Professor of Operations Research and Statistics, MIT Sloan School of Management |
| 2:15-2:45 pm ET | Analyzing the large-scale supply of low-carbon hydrogen in Germany Emre Gençer, Principal Research Scientist, MIT Energy Initiative |
| 2:45-3:00 pm ET | Break |
| 3:00-3:30 ET | Electricity retail rate design to support decarbonized power systems and economy-wide electrification Tim Schittekatte, Postdoctoral Associate, MIT Sloan School of Management |
| 3:30-4:15 pm ET | Breakout discussion on projects For in-person attendees only Center Members will have the opportunity to discuss the projects presented in the previous sessions further with the project team members. Analyzing the large-scale supply of low-carbon hydrogen in Germany |
| 4:15 pm ET | Adjourn meeting |
Lammot du Pont Professor of Chemical Engineering, MIT Department of Chemical Engineering
Paul Barton is the Lammot du Pont Professor of Chemical Engineering in MIT’s Department of Chemical Engineering. His research interests include dynamic modeling, simulation and optimization, hybrid and embedded systems, mixed-integer and global optimization theory and algorithms, design and operation of micro-scale chemical processes, systems biology, and energy systems engineering.
Executive Director, Future Energy Systems Center
Randall Field is the executive director of MITEI’s Future Energy Systems Center. He was previously executive director for the Mobility Systems Center, MITEI’s Low-Carbon Energy Center assessing the impact of emerging transformations in vehicle and fuel technologies, service and business models, policies, demographics, and consumer behavior in the movement of both passengers and goods. He was also the executive director for MIT’s Mobility of the Future study which produced the Insights in the Future Mobility report covering global projections of alternative fuel vehicle fleets and energy consumption, deployment of charging and fueling infrastructure, attitudes towards mobility, and the impacts of innovative technologies and business models on urban mobility. As executive director for the Conversion Research Program at MIT for 10 years, Field worked with a multidisciplinary team of researchers to explore various conversion technologies for production of alternative fuels. Prior to MIT, Field worked for Aspen Technology for 23 years.
Associate Professor and the American Bureau of Shipping Career Development Professor, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering
Betar M. Gallant is an associate professor and the ABS Career Development Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. She obtained her SB, SM, and PhD degrees from the same department, where she was an NSF Graduate Research Fellow, MIT Energy Initiative Fellow and MIT Martin Family Fellow during her graduate work. Following her PhD, Gallant was a Kavli Nanoscience Institute Postdoctoral Fellow at Caltech. Her research group at MIT focuses on advanced battery chemistries and materials for high-energy primary and rechargeable batteries, including fluorinated cathode conversion reactions and lithium and calcium metal anodes and their interfaces. Her group is also leading research into CO2 capture and its integration with direct electrochemical conversion in the captured state. She is the recipient of multiple awards including an MIT Bose Fellow, Army Research Office Young Investigator Award, Scialog Fellow in Energy Storage and in Negative Emissions Science, NSF CAREER Award, ECS Battery Division Early Career Award, and the Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Distinguished Teaching at MIT.
Principal Research Scientist, MIT Energy Initiative
Emre Gençer is a principal research scientist at the MIT Energy Initiative. The central theme of his research is to identify optimal utilization of resources for the evolving energy system facing the dual challenge of increasing demand while profoundly reducing its environmental footprint. His research focuses on integration of emerging and conventional energy technologies, their policy implications, multiscale modeling, and optimization. He is the principal investigator of various ongoing projects at MIT including Understanding Carbon Mitigation Technologies, Analysis of Options towards Fully Decarbonized EU by 2050, and Exploring Power and Transport Sector Decarbonization Pathways via Direct and Indirect use of Electricity. He is the lead developer and chief architect of a novel software platform called Sustainable Energy Systems Analysis Modeling Environment (SESAME), which provides comprehensive cost and sustainability assessment for the converging electric power, transportation, and industrial sectors to decision makers and technology analysts with high technological, temporal, and geospatial resolution. He was lead on the chemical storage chapter of The Future of Energy Storage report and co-lead on the thermal storage chapter.
Hoyt C. Hottel Professor in Chemical Engineering, Postdoctoral Officer, MIT
William H. Green is a world leader in chemical reaction engineering, and he has led many research projects related to fuels, combustion, and pyrolysis. He is well known for developing computer methods to predict the behavior of complicated reacting mixtures. He also invents numerical methods, including methods for machine learning in chemistry. He also invents and analyzes technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; two of his patents are now being commercialized. He earned his BA from Swarthmore College in 1983, and his PhD from UC Berkeley in 1988. After postdocs at Cambridge and Penn, he worked for Exxon for six years before joining the Chemical Engineering faculty at MIT in 1997. He has written or co-authored more than 300 journal articles, which have been cited more than 16,000 times. He is a fellow of the AAAS and of the Combustion Institute, and has received the ACS Glenn Award in Fuel Chemistry and AIChE’s Wilhelm Award in Reaction Engineering. He is the co-director of MIT’s Mobility Systems Center. He previously served as the editor of the International Journal of Chemical Kinetics, as the faculty chair of MIT’s Mobility of the Future project, and as the executive officer of the MIT Department of Chemical Engineering.
Postdoctoral Associate, MIT Sloan School of Management
Tim Schittekatte is a postdoctoral associate at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He teaches a course on engineering, economics, and regulation of the power sector and conducts research about the same topics within the MIT Energy Initiative. His current research interests are power market design in times of crisis and electricity retail rates for decarbonizing power systems. Prior to joining MIT, he was a research fellow at the Florence School of Regulation at the European University Institute. He graduated as an engineer from Ghent University, Belgium, and completed the EMIN program with an international master in economics. He holds a PhD in energy economics from University Paris-Sud XI.
Iberdrola-Avangrid Professor of Electric Power Systems; Associate Professor of Operations Research and Statistics, MIT Sloan School of Management
Andy Sun is the Iberdrola-Avangrid Professor of Electric Power Systems and associate professor in Operations Research and Statistics in the Sloan School of Management. Sun is interested in building new bridges between the theory of optimization under uncertainty, distributed optimization, convexification of nonconvex structures, and control of dynamical systems, and in developing fundamental understanding and new analytical tools for renewable energy integration, power grid optimization, and stability and resiliency of interconnected energy systems and transportation systems. Sun’s research has won several awards, including the ARPA-E Grid Optimization Competition prizes in 2020 and 2021, INFORMS ENRE Best Publication in Energy Award First Place in 2017 and 2019, Second Place in 2015, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems Best Paper Published in 2017-2019, NSF CAREER award, INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group Paper Competition, Third Place, 2014, George Dantzig Dissertation Award Second Place. Before joining MIT, Sun was the McKenney Family Associate Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering in Georgia Tech. He obtained his PhD degree in operations research from MIT.
STL Champion Professor of Urban and Real Estate Sustainability, MIT Center for Real Estate
Siqi Zheng is the STL Champion Professor of Urban and Real Estate Sustainability at the Center for Real Estate and Department of Urban Studies and Planning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the faculty director of the MIT Center for Real Estate. She established MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab in 2019, and MIT China Future City Lab in 2017, and is the faculty director of her lab. Zheng was the former president of Asian Real Estate Society (2018-2019) and is on its Board now. She is also on the Board of American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association (AREUEA). She is the co-editor of Journal of Regional Science, and Environmental and Resource Economics. She is also the associated editor of China Economic Review, and Journal of Economic Surveys, and is on the editorial board of Real Estate Economics, Journal of Housing Economics and Journal of the American Planning Association (JAPA).
Zheng’s field of specialization is urban and environmental economics and policy, including environmental sustainability, and place-based policies and self-sustaining urban growth. She is published in many peer reviewed international journals including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Human Behaviour, and the Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Economic Geography, European Economic Review, Journal of Urban Economics, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Transportation Research Part A, Environment and Planning A, Ecological Economics, Journal of Regional Science, Real Estate Economics, and Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics. A book she has co-authored with Matthew Kahn, Blue Skies over Beijing: Economic Growth and the Environment in China (Princeton University Press) was published in 2016. Zheng has completed or been undertaking research projects granted or entrusted by the World Bank, the MassCPR, MITEI, MIT Portugal, MIT MCSC, the Asian Development Bank, the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, among others. She won the MIT Frank E. Perkins Award for Excellence in Graduate Advising in 2022. She received her PhD in urban development and real estate from Tsinghua University in 2005 and did her post-doc research at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. Prior to coming to MIT, she was a professor and the director of Hang Lung Center for Real Estate at Tsinghua University, China. Her research website is www.siqizheng.com.