MIT is currently focused on how to solve the hard problems around energy — both supplying it for a growing planet and harvesting it more environmentally friendly. While many labs and centers work on these problems, a central point in the work is the MIT Energy Initiative.
President Barack Obama, in a historic visit to the MIT campus on October 23, 2009, praised the Institute's commitment to energy research and issued a strong call for the nation to lead the world in the development of new, efficient and clean energy t
This talk was given on May 5, 2009 as part of the MITEI Seminar Series - Abstract - As US energy challenges mount, the public and political debate continues to demonstrate disturbing misunderstandings of both the problems and potential solutions. The US faces three ...
Dr. Steven Chu, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy and the co-winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize for Physics gave a lecture entitled "The energy problem and the interplay between basic and applied research"on May 12, 2009 at MIT. Click here for more info.
Nuclear Power: New Markets and New Applications A Workshop on the Opportunities for Different Size Reactors in the Global Nuclear Enterprise Date and Time: Friday March 6, 2009, 1:00 - 5:00 PM The MIT Energy Conference 2009 "Nuclear Power: New Markets and New ...
This colloquium was given in celebration of Earth Day on April 22, 2009.
This talk was presented on April 14, 2009 as part of the MITEI Seminar Series. Abstract: To address the challenges of energy security and climate change, it is becoming increasingly clear that "business as usual" traditional approaches to decarbonize the energy supply ...
This seminar was presented on March 10, 2009 as part of the MITEI Seminar Series. This talk will discuss the research frontier involved with the development of an integrated system based on semiconductor nanowires that act as artificial photosynthetic pigments, which ...
Opening Remarks by Susan Hockfield, MIT President
Keynote by Lars Josefsson, President and CEO, Vattenfall
Panel Session with Professor Henry Lee (Harvard, Moderator), Anna Rath (Ceres), Bill Jorgenson (SJH & Co.), and Blake Simmons (Sandia National Laboratories)
Panel Session with Professor Larry Susskind (MIT, Moderator), Michael Metzner (First Wind), Gerardo Gonzalez (Red Electrica de Espana), Karl Rabago
Panel Session with Denny Ellerman (MIT, Moderator), Robert Shannon (Siemens), Ian Copeland (Bechtel), and Jake Erhard (Arclight Capital)
Panel Session with John Parsons (MIT, Moderator), Matthew Nordan (Lux Research), Ali Nourai (American Electric Power), Gary Colello (Premium Power)
Keynote with U.S. Representative, Jay Inslee
Panel Session with Professor Joanna Lewis (Georgetown University, Moderator), Lawrence Jones (Areva T&D), Dan Goldman (GreatPoint Energy), and Neha Misra (The Energy and Resources Institute, TERI)
Panel Session with Harvey Michaels (MIT, Moderator), Tim Healy (EnerNOC), Bernard Neenan (EPRI), and Sue Coakley (Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships Inc.)
Panel Session with Professor Daniel Snow (Harvard, Moderator), John Casesa (Casesa Shapiro Group), Sven Thesen (Better Place), and John Viera (Ford Motor Company)
Keynote Panel Session with Professor Ernest Moniz (MIT, Moderator), Theodore Roosevelt IV (Barclays Bank), Atul Arya (BP), and J. Wayne Leonard (Entergy)
This panel discusses the future of America's energy system, focusing on electricity. A variety of topics, such as the effect of the economic downturn on energy initiatives, enabling innovation at utilities, decoupling, transmission regulation and carbon policy are ...
