News & Events

West Texas Talk: MIT’s Energy Initiative Director Robert Armstrong; Linda Norden on John Wesley

Marfa Public Radio    ·    October 21, 2019

MITEI Director Robert Armstrong speaks with Diana Nguyen about how climate change is transforming the world's energy landscape.

To combat climate change, do we need the nuclear option?

WBUR    ·    September 18, 2019

Jacopo Buongiorno, director of MITEI's Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems, says nuclear power plays a key role in the future of energy, as shown in MIT's study, "The Future of Nuclear Energy in a Carbon Constrained World."

Global renewable energy initiative aims to bring a billion people in from the dark

The Guardian    ·    September 13, 2019

The Global Commission to End Energy Poverty (GCEEP), an effort from The Rockefeller Foundation with research support from MITEI, aims to to bring electricity to the remaining billion people across the globe who currently live without it.