MITEI's IAP course "Leading the Energy Transition" connects students with practitioners and experts to inspire new leadership in the clean energy transition.

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MIT alum Joy Dunn '08 spent a decade working in aerospace manufacturing at SpaceX before joining Commonwealth Fusion Systems, where she plays a key role in developing a commercially viable fusion power plant. 

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Hydrogen has long been seen as potentially game-changing in the quest for a clean energy future. At MITEI's 2022 Spring Symposium, four industry experts laid out their efforts to produce it at scale.

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There's only one financially solvent utility company in Africa, and it operates under a government agreement called a concession. Learn why utility concessions can be a promising tool to help end energy poverty in developing countries around the world.

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Utilizing digital and computational methods, MIT researchers have developed an approach that enables architects to use discarded tree forks as load-bearing joints in their structures.

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At the MIT Energy Initiative's Fall Colloquium, Poppy Allonby, a senior financial executive and the former managing director of BlackRock, laid out the current state of sustainability thinking among the investor class.

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Inspired by the MIT community and assisted by his collaborators, postdoc Francesco Benedetti launched a startup to provide innovative technology for energy-efficient, high-performance chemical separations—and won the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition.

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In a study analyzing California’s power system, MITEI researchers Emre Gençer and Drake D. Hernandez SM ’21 show that hydrogen-generated electricity is a cost-competitive alternative to fossil-fuel-based peaker plants or lithium-ion battery arrays for backing up solar and wind.

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Many industries use energy-intensive methods to separate liquids, often because a suitable filtration system is hard to come by. Startup Via Separations has developed a robust membrane that can cut energy use in industrial separations by 90%.

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