MIT Energy Initiative

“It is crucial that MIT seize a leadership role in addressing the urgent issue of climate change, and I believe that this agreement puts us in an even stronger position to lead effectively and successfully,” Maria Zuber says.

Agreement on climate-related action reached by MIT administration and student-led group

Four-part plan signals effort to build on last year’s climate action plan, and an end to months-long protest.

March 3, 2016

U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz will speak at the 2016 MIT Energy Conference hosted by the MIT Energy Club.

U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz to deliver keynote address at MIT Energy Conference

Moniz joins global energy leaders from industry, government, and academia speaking at student-organized conference on March 4 and 5.

March 1, 2016

Exelon President and CEO Chris Crane (left) with MIT Energy Initiative Director Robert Armstrong

MIT Energy Initiative and Exelon collaborate on clean energy research through MITEI’s Low-Carbon Centers

Exelon’s MITEI membership will support research including energy storage, smarter grids, advanced nuclear generation, and solar energy.

February 25, 2016

Professor of mechanical engineering Amos Winter (left) and graduate students Natasha Wright (on ladder) and Georgia Van de Zande assemble their desalination system a day before the USAID Desal Prize competition, which they won.

Cleaning water without the grid

MIT researchers have developed a solar-powered desalination system that could significantly increase the groundwater available for drinking in Indian villages.

February 16, 2016

MIT students and staff explored a wind turbine inside and out in Hull, Massachusetts.

Students see clean energy in action on IAP wind turbine tour

Tour gives students a chance to reflect on what drives their interest in renewables.

February 9, 2016

Priyanka Chatterjee ’15, a grad student in the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, acts out the welcome video for a gardening app that could help homeowners reduce carbon emissions. Chatterjee and her teammates Casey Stelmach, a grad student at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and James Minor, a grad student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, won the “be...

Coming together on climate

Hackathon for Climate brings students, faculty, staff, and alumni together on climate change solutions.

February 8, 2016

Dispatches from the Paris climate talks

MIT attendees of COP21 share experiences, perspectives on outcomes

February 2, 2016

Georgia Perakis, the William F. Pounds Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management

Georgia Perakis: On the road to better energy data

MIT professor uses operations research and optimization modeling to investigate topics from traffic flows to subsidies for green energy technologies.

January 27, 2016

This GridForm model of a village in Bihar, India, shows the optimal layout of hardware for the load profiles of the community. Each building, color-coded by the cost (in Indian rupees) of supplying electricity to that structure, is wired to a central generation/storage node (solid lines), and the nodes are connected to each other (dotted lines).

Going off grid: Tata researchers tackle rural electrification

At MIT’s Tata Center for Technology and Design, researchers are exploring ways to extend electricity access to rural communities in India using microgrids.

January 21, 2016