Consider the dizzying ascent of solar energy in the United States: In the past decade, solar…
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Offering clean energy around the clock
As remarkable as the rise of solar and wind farms has been over the last 20…
Making the clean energy transition work for everyone
The clean energy transition is already underway, but how do we make sure it happens in…
Designing cleaner vehicles
Adi Mehrotra knew that his time at MIT wasn’t up yet when he finished his undergraduate…
3 Questions: What’s it like winning the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition?
Solar power plays a major role in nearly every roadmap for global decarbonization. But solar panels…
Addressing food insecurity in arid regions with an open-source evaporative cooling chamber design
Anyone who has ever perspired on a hot summer day understands the principle — and critical value —…
Energy storage important to creating affordable, reliable, deeply decarbonized electricity systems
In deeply decarbonized energy systems utilizing high penetrations of variable renewable energy (VRE), energy storage is…
Engineers enlist AI to help scale up advanced solar cell manufacturing
Perovskites are a family of materials that are currently the leading contender to potentially replace today’s…
MIT Energy Conference focuses on climate’s toughest challenges
This year’s MIT Energy Conference, the largest student-led event of its kind, included keynote talks and…
MIT Energy Initiative launches the Future Energy Systems Center
The MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) has launched a new research consortium — the Future Energy Systems…