Liquid air energy storage could be the lowest-cost solution for ensuring a reliable power supply on a future grid dominated by carbon-free yet intermittent energy sources, according to a new model from MIT researchers.
Taiwan’s Innovative Green Economy Roadmap (TIGER) is a two-year program with the MIT Energy Initiative, exploring ways that industry and government can promote and adopt technologies, practices, and policies that will keep Taiwan competitive amid a quickly changing energy landscape.
Unlocking its secrets could thus enable advances in efficient energy production, electronics cooling, water desalination, medical diagnostics, and more. “Boiling is important for applications way beyond nuclear,” says Bucci, who earned tenure at MIT in July. “Boiling is used in 80 percent of the power plants that produce electricity.
As MIT’s first vice president for energy and climate, Evelyn Wang is working to broaden MIT’s research portfolio, scale up existing innovations, seek new breakthroughs, and channel campus community input to drive work forward.
The new Schmidt Laboratory for Materials in Nuclear Technologies (LMNT) at the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center accelerates fusion materials testing using cyclotron proton beam irradiation, advancing fusion energy, nuclear power, and clean energy research at MIT.
In MIT course 15.366 (Climate and Energy Ventures) student teams select a technology and determine the best path for its commercialization in the energy sector.
At the MIT Energy Initiative’s Annual Research Conference, speakers highlighted the need for collective action in a durable energy transition capable of withstanding obstacles.
MIT engineers developed a membrane that filters the components of crude oil by their molecular size, an advance that could dramatically reduce the amount of energy needed for crude oil fractionation.
The MIT Energy Initiative launched the Data Center Power Forum in September 2025. The Forum brings together MIT faculty and MITEI member company experts to address growing power demand from data centers.
Giving people better data about their energy use, plus some coaching, can help them substantially reduce their consumption and costs, according to a study by MIT researchers in Amsterdam.
