News and Events

Podcast: Digitalization and the power grid

Mark Thompson, director of digital delivery at National Grid, on digitalization, industry standards, and the day-to-day of how our grid is being converted to renewable energy.

Collaborators in climate action

Symposium highlights ambitious goals of MIT–industry research targeting technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

Powering the energy transition with better storage

MIT and Princeton researchers evaluate the role and value of long-duration energy technologies in securing a carbon-free electric grid

How can you reduce the environmental impact of your next virtual meeting?

Study uncovers overlooked environmental impacts of internet use by estimating associated carbon, land, and water footprints.

Texas energy crisis could have been avoided with regulation and risk management

Misguided, politically motivated decision to rely on markets alone has caused suffering for millions of Texans.

Member News

ExxonMobil renews support for MIT Energy Initiative’s low-carbon research

Company to join MITEI’s Low-Carbon Energy Centers for Energy Storage and Mobility Systems.

MIT and Eni renew collaboration on low-carbon energy research and technologies

MIT Energy Initiative announces new class of membership geared toward energy startups

In the Media

Technology innovation gives government leverage to drive down emissions fast – here’s how

The Conversation · April 7, 2021

Jessika Trancik (Institute for Data, Systems, and Society) explores how government policies can help spark innovation in solar, wind and battery markets, helping to reduce carbon emissions.

How a World Expo helped power the planet

CNN · April 6, 2021

Robert Jaffe (Physics) and Joel Jean SM ’13 PhD ’17, co-founder and CEO of Swift Solar (a solar technology start-up), comment on the roles that World Expos have played in promoting energy technology development throughout history.

Negative emissions, positive economy

MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change · April 4, 2021

Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage, a negative emissions process that converts biomass into energy and captures and stores the carbon, could be an economically effective tool to meet global climate goals when paired with dramatic emissions-reduction measures, says a new study from MITEI and the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change.

Events

04/19/2021 1:00 pm-2:00 pm ET

Women in Energy Roundtable: Sophie Brochu, President and Chief Executive Officer, Hydro-Québec

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04/29/2021 2:00 pm-3:00 pm ET

Virtual

U.S. C3E webinar series: The gigaton climate challenge: Decarbonizing with scale and urgency

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Energy Futures

Energy Futures is published twice a year, featuring energy research and other energy activities at MIT.

Remembering friends of MITEI

Encouraging solar energy adoption in rural India

An investigation into household decision making

China’s transition to electric vehicles

Benefits will come, but at what cost?