News and Events

MIT Energy Initiative awards seven Seed Fund grants for early-stage energy research

Awards support research to improve the efficiency, scalability, and adoption of clean energy technologies

Coupling power and hydrogen sector pathways to benefit decarbonization goals

MIT-led team finds that holistic optimization of electric power and hydrogen supply chain infrastructure is favorable for emission reductions and decreased infrastructure costs.

Andy Sun announced as new Associate Professor of Operations Research and Statistics and the Iberdrola-Avangrid Professor of Electric Power Systems at MIT Sloan

Sun will serve as faculty lead of the MIT Energy Initiative's new Future Energy Systems Center

MITEI statement on the successful test of first high-temperature superconducting fusion magnet

3 Questions: Daniel Cohn on the benefits of high-efficiency, flexible fuel engines for heavy-duty trucking

Member News

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

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

In the Media

Experts Are Divided on the Best Way for Automakers to Hit Fuel Efficiency Targets

Newsweek · September 14, 2021

John Heywood (Mechanical Engineering) comments on the role of hybrid vehicles in decarbonizing the automotive industry. “By making all of the standard gasoline engines hybrid, you get a roughly 30% improvement in fuel consumption,” he says.

MIT Scientists Report 'Major Advance' In Fusion Energy

Vice · September 10, 2021

"A future powered by fusion energy is closer than ever before," reports Vice on last week’s success test by the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center and spinout Commonwealth Fusion Systems of a key component of their fusion reactor: a magnet with a strength of 20 tesla.

Fusion gets closer with successful test of new kind of magnet at MIT start-up backed by Bill Gates

CNBC · September 8, 2021

On September 5, 2021, for the first time, a large high-temperature superconducting electromagnet was ramped up to a field strength of 20 tesla, the most powerful magnetic field of its kind ever created on Earth.

Events

10/25/2021 1:00 pm-2:00 pm ET

U.S. C3E Women in Clean Energy webinar series: Utility leadership in accelerating the carbon-free energy transition

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11/03/2021 12:00 pm-4:30 pm ET
11/04/2021 12:00 pm-4:30 pm ET

Virtual

U.S. C3E Women in Clean Energy Symposium & Awards: Justice and equity in clean energy

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Energy Futures

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

In memoriam: George P. Shultz PhD ’49 (1920–2021)

Using aluminum and water to make clean hydrogen fuel—when and where it’s needed

Designing better batteries for electric vehicles

Materials selection for scaled-up production