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Undergraduate research

MITEI Energy Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) students are innovative problem solvers who become integral members of the labs in which they work. An Energy UROP provides the chance to ...
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Future Energy Systems Center

MITEI's Future Energy Systems Center is an industry research consortium delivering actionable insights for navigating the energy transition based on multi-sectoral analyses of emerging technologies, ...
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The Future of Fuels: Pathways to Sustainable Transportation

The Future of Fuels: Pathways to Sustainable Transportation is a multi-year, interdisciplinary MITEI-led study analyzing promising pathways to decarbonize hard-to-abate transportation sectors such as ...
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Hydrogen: The clean-burning fuel of the future—if we can find a cheap and clean way to ship it

The Hydrogen Carrier Analysis Tool (HyCAT), developed by a MITEI-led team, helps users determine the costs and carbon emissions incurred when transporting and delivering hydrogen fuel. Many experts ...
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Swift Solar, a startup with MITEI roots, succeeds in first real-world test of its novel solar technology

Swift Solar, a startup with roots in the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI), recently demonstrated that the company’s novel solar technology is ready for commercial release. The demonstration occurred ...
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Funding the fusion revolution

Billions of dollars are pouring into fusion energy, reflecting increased hopes that it could become a commercially viable source of clean power in the near future. Only several years ago, few could ...
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MITEI spinout Quaise Energy successfully demonstrates their geothermal energy drilling technology in the field

Quaise Energy wants to repurpose coal power plants into deep geothermal wells by using high-frequency microwaves to melt rock. Quaise Energy, an MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) spinout developing ...
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How artificial intelligence can help achieve a clean energy future

AI supports the clean energy transition as it manages power grid operations, helps plan infrastructure investments, guides development of novel materials, and more. There is growing attention on the ...
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MITEI fusion study informs International Atomic Energy Agency’s "World Fusion Outlook 2025"

The MIT Energy Initiative’s (MITEI) 2024 report, The role of fusion energy in a decarbonized electricity system, was adapted by its authors for inclusion in the International Atomic Energy Agency’s ...
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MIT Energy Initiative launches Data Center Power Forum

At MITEI’s 2024 Annual Research Conference, MITEI Director of Research Randall Field (left) led a discussion on data center power demand that included representatives from Google LLC, Microsoft Corp., ...
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MITEI’s Future Energy Systems Center funds ten new research projects to advance the energy transition

The MIT Energy Initiative’s (MITEI) Future Energy Systems Center will fund ten new projects, with topics ranging from distributed energy resources to electrolyzer design. Several projects relate to ...
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MIT Energy Initiative funds seven early-stage energy research projects

Rare earth elements are crucial to clean energy technologies such as electric vehicles and wind turbines. One winning Seed Fund project will develop a process to efficiently separate rare earth ...