MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI)

Nenad Miljkovic (left) and Evelyn Wang of Mechanical Engineering are designing a specially adapted solar energy collector that will simultaneously produce electricity and steam or hot water at wide-ranging temperatures suited for home or industrial use. This research was supported in part by the MIT Solid-State Solar-Thermal Energy Conversion Center, an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by th...

Harnessing solar energy

Novel approach yields both electricity and heat.

December 13, 2012

Lindsey Anne Gilman: Better boiling for more efficient energy production

December 4, 2012

From left to right: Director, University Relations, Group Technology at BP Andrew Cockerill; MIT President L. Rafael Reif; BP Chief Scientist Ellen Williams; and MIT Energy Initiative Director Ernest J. Moniz.

BP renews commitment to MIT with second $25 million pledge

Company to provide $5 million a year to support continued energy-related research activities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

October 26, 2012

Programs for green cities

Finding out what works

October 25, 2012

Joel Schindall of electrical engineering and computer science (left) and Riccardo Signorelli PhD ’09 of FastCAP Systems examine carbon-nanotube-coated samples that proved key to the development of the full-scale, high-performance ultracapacitors now being marketed by FastCAP.

A novel ultracapacitor

Energy when and where you need it.

October 9, 2012

At the MIT Energy Initiative Presidential Energy Debate on Friday, Oct, 5 (from left): Moderator Jason Pontin, editor-in-chief and publisher of <i>Technology Review</i>; the participants, Joe Aldy, a professor at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and former Obama administration official, and Oren Cass, policy director for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney; and panelis...

Presidential campaigns offer energetic energy debate at MIT

Representatives of Obama, Romney camps lay out differences in crucial policy domains of energy and the environment.

October 9, 2012

In a panel discussion at the Women in Clean Energy Symposium, the speakers were, from left, Kateri Callahan, president of the Alliance to Save Energy; Dian Grueneich, of Dian Grueneich Consulting; MIT Energy Initiative director Ernest Moniz; Lisa Epifani, partner in Van Ness Feldman; and Mary Anne Sullivan, partner in Hogan Lovells.

Women’s impact in clean energy is growing worldwide

MIT symposium highlights women’s increasing leadership in energy research, industry and government.

October 1, 2012

Michelle O’Malley (above) and Chris Kaiser, both of biology, are figuring out exactly how fungi from the digestive tract of a horse break down tough fibers in grasses—understanding that could lead to better methods of making biofuels from cellulosic biomass.

Converting plant waste into biofuels

Promising advances using yeast and fungi.

September 12, 2012

Incoming freshman Kaylee de Soto got a head start at MIT, arriving in June to help the Plasma Science and Fusion Center update its fusion video game.

Kaylee de Soto: A game changer

Incoming freshman refreshes Plasma Science and Fusion Center outreach tools.

September 6, 2012

A new approach to water desalination

Graphene sheets with precisely controlled pores have potential to purify water more efficiently than existing methods.

July 2, 2012

Gathering for the official signing of the MOU between Saudi Aramco and MIT were, from left, Abdullatif A. Al-Othman, Susan Hockfield, Ali I. Al-Naimi, Khalid A. Al-Falih and Ernest Moniz.

MIT and Saudi Aramco augment existing collaboration

More energy research; entrepreneurship programs and cultural exchanges to be pursued.

June 23, 2012

Portugal's Minister of Foreign Affairs Paulo Portas

Portugal’s foreign minister emphasizes commitment to ‘stability’ in Europe

In MIT talk, Portas underscores country’s intent to stay the course.

June 7, 2012

Andrew Revkin, author of <i>The New York Times</i> Dot Earth Blog discusses the #Knowosphere at an MIT Energy Initiative colloquium and Earth Day Challenge action project.

MIT community takes the Earth Day Challenge

Take Action! Earn Points! Win Prizes!

June 1, 2012

<i>The New York Times</i> Dot Earth writer Andrew Revkin speaks at MIT.

Communicating the climate challenge

New York Times’ Andrew Revkin shares lessons with MIT faculty, students at Earth Day colloquium.

April 26, 2012

DOE, MITEI announce a women in clean energy program for the U.S.

Announced at the Third Clean Energy Ministerial in London today.