MIT and NSTAR celebrate energy efficiency success, extend ‘Efficiency Forward’ through 2015
Since first agreement in 2010, MIT has reduced electricity use on campus by 15 percent.
Pruning the power grid
New algorithm quickly identifies the most dangerous risks in a power grid amid millions or billions of possible failures.
Cooking up innovation
An MIT alumnus brings solar-powered cookers to the people of the Himalayan plateau, helping end their dependency on biomass fuels.
Power to the people
From afar, MIT grad student Chidube Ezeozue devotes energy to his fellow Nigerians.
Funneling the sun’s energy
MIT engineers propose a new way of harnessing photons for electricity, with the potential for capturing a wider spectrum of solar energy.
Climate change: a developing challenge for poor nations
MIT and U.N. researchers team up to tackle some of the heftiest climate change challenges developing countries will face as they confront an uncertain future.
Double the benefits: clean energy also saves water
NREL-MIT study shows an 80 percent renewable energy standard cuts water use in half.
No crystal ball for natural gas
Traditionally, oil prices have been used to gauge the natural gas market; but new research shows that the future of what is currently a cheap fuel is really anyone's guess.
Powering the Chinese dragon
China Light and Power’s Peter Littlewood talks with MIT researchers and students about the country’s strengths and the United States’s opportunity to embrace them.
A novel way to concentrate sun’s heat
MIT researchers find a way to generate power without the usual mirror arrays.
Student project identifies improvements for campus PVs
Class works with Facilities to analyze existing conditions.