Tracking US progress on the path to a decarbonized economy
The Clean Investment Monitor database, a new collaboration between MIT CEEPR and the Rhodium Group, shows $213 billion in clean technology and infrastructure investments in the last year.
Alumnus’ thermal battery helps industry eliminate fossil fuels
Antora Energy, co-founded by David Bierman SM ’14, PhD ’17, is commercializing a thermal battery that lets manufacturers use renewable energy around the clock.
To improve solar and other clean energy tech, look beyond hardware
A new study finds system deployment processes have been slow to improve over time — but must be addressed to lower clean energy costs in the future.
Embracing the future we need
MIT Sloan Professor Andy Sun works to improve the electricity grid so it can better use renewable energy.
MIT engineers create an energy-storing supercapacitor from ancient materials
Made of cement, carbon black, and water, the device could provide cheap and scalable energy storage for renewable energy sources.
3 Questions: What’s it like winning the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition?
The founders of MIT spinout Active Surfaces describe their thin-film solar technology and their experience winning this year’s $100K.
Addressing food insecurity in arid regions with an open-source evaporative cooling chamber design
Less expensive than refrigerated cold rooms, this cooling chamber offers accessible cold storage for smallholder farmers.
MIT engineering students take on the heat of Miami
A collaboration between MIT and Miami-Dade County has students working with city planning officials to understand why people wait patiently for a bus — and why they bail.
Researchers develop a new source of quantum light
The device emits a stream of single photons and could provide a basis for optical quantum computers.
Moving perovskite advancements from the lab to the manufacturing floor
U.S. Department of Energy selects MIT to establish collaborative research center for optimizing the development of tandem solar modules.
MIT Energy Conference grapples with geopolitics
With an eye toward the war in Ukraine and other international issues, the student-run conference brought together energy leaders from around the world.
An interdisciplinary approach to fighting climate change through clean energy solutions
Principal Research Scientist Audun Botterud tackles a range of cross-cutting problems — from energy market interactions to designing batteries — to get closer to a decarbonized power grid.
Paper-thin solar cell can turn any surface into a power source
Researchers develop a scalable fabrication technique to produce ultrathin, lightweight solar cells that can be seamlessly added to any surface.
Mining for the clean energy transition
MIT Conference on Mining, Environment, and Society convenes academics, industry, policymakers, and NGOs to discuss challenges of supplying the materials for clean energy.
A simple way to significantly increase lifetimes of fuel cells and other devices
MIT researchers find that changing the pH of a system solves a decades-old problem.