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Powering up for a pivotal moment

From a nuclear revival to qubits, the MIT Energy Initiative’s annual research conference tracked deployment of today’s technologies to discovery of tomorrow’s breakthroughs.

October 19, 2026 MITEI

Physicists control electrons at femtosecond timescales

Results may help improve efficiency of solar cells, energy-harvesting devices

January 22, 2016 MITEI MIT News

New finding may explain heat loss in fusion reactors

Solving a longstanding mystery, MIT experiments reveal two forms of turbulence interacting

January 21, 2016 MITEI MIT News

Sensible subsidies

How should backing for clean technology be designed? A look at a new paper co-authored by MIT researchers and supported by MITEI.

January 21, 2016 MITEI MIT News

Amid federal cuts, Draper Laboratory looks to biopharma industry for new contracts

Raanan Miller, Executive Director of MITEI’s Utility of the Future Consortium, discusses Draper Laboratory’s history of working with industry

January 21, 2016 MITEI Stat News

Switchable material could enable new memory chips

Small voltage can flip thin film between two crystal states — one metallic, one semiconducting

January 20, 2016 MITEI MIT News

Light-bulb moment

A bright idea to save a beloved technology from the dustbin

January 20, 2016 In the media The Economist

2016-17 Call for Nominations for Martin Fellowships for Sustainability now open

Faculty nominations for MIT doctoral students are due February 29th

January 19, 2016 MITEI Martin Fellowships for Sustainability

No more blackouts: How New York is protecting the power grid

MITEI Director of Research Francis O'Sullivan discusses broad applications for microgrids

January 15, 2016 In the media Inside Energy

Thomson Reuters announces the world's most influential scientific minds

Citation analysis reveals a who's who of researchers with global scholarly impact

January 15, 2016 In the media Reuters

Cutting down runway queues

Model that predicts time from gate departure to takeoff could cut airport congestion, fuel waste

January 14, 2016 MITEI MIT News

MIT releases institutional greenhouse gas inventory

Data set a baseline for campus climate action

January 13, 2016 MITEI MIT News

The frontiers of energy: renewables are essential

MITEI Director Robert Armstrong urges continuous research on more efficient, cheaper technologies

January 13, 2016 In the media Nature Energy