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Cutting urban carbon emissions by retrofitting buildings

MIT study shows that cities’ plans often won’t achieve their goals; decarbonizing the local grid could make the difference.

Making aviation fuel from biomass

A new MIT technique could be the key.

A healthy wind

Health benefits of using wind energy instead of fossil fuels could quadruple if the most polluting power plants are selected for dialing down, MIT study finds.

Member News

The MIT Energy Initiative creates joint framework to educate students with South Korean energy university KENTECH

MIT Energy Initiative welcomes the electricity transmission operator Terna Group to its Future Energy Systems Center

The MIT Energy Initiative and MIT’s Industrial Liaison Program renew collaborations with Ferrovial

Ferrovial is committing $5 million to support low-carbon energy and sustainable infrastructure research at MIT

In the Media

How China became the king of new nuclear power, and how the U.S. is trying to stage a comeback

NBC · September 21, 2023

Jacopo Buongiorno (Nuclear Science and Engineering) discusses the future of nuclear energy in the United States, stating that the U.S. may catch up to China if the new technologies being developed here are technically and commercially successful.

Old west Virginia steel mill becomes a green-energy powerhouse

Wall Street Journal · September 21, 2023

MIT startup Form Energy—co-founded by Yet-Ming Chiang (Materials Science and Engineering)—was created with the goal to “develop batteries that were cheap, didn’t catch fire, didn’t need scarce and costly metals like cobalt and lithium, and could produce electricity for a long time.”

MIT researcher Jessika Trancik says we need to lower the ‘soft’ costs of climate tech

Boston Globe · September 6, 2023

Jessika Trancik (Institute for Data, Systems, and Society) discusses her new study that finds improvements in soft tech can accelerate the reduction in solar energy costs.

Events

09/27/2023
09/28/2023

12th Annual C3E Women in Clean Energy Symposium and Awards

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11/02/2023 2:00 pm-3:00 pm ET

Virtual

U.S. C3E Women in clean energy seminar series: Energy access: An enabler for people and planet

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11/14/2023
11/15/2023

Member event: Future Energy Systems Center Fall Workshop

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Energy Futures

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

Cutting urban carbon emissions by retrofitting buildings

MIT study shows that cities’ plans often won’t achieve their goals; decarbonizing the local grid could make the difference.

Making aviation fuel from biomass

A new MIT technique could be the key.

A healthy wind

Health benefits of using wind energy instead of fossil fuels could quadruple if the most polluting power plants are selected for dialing down, MIT study finds.

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