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- New paper in Transportation Research Record: Efficiently Simulating Personal Vehicle Energy Consumption in Mesoscopic Transport Models - 12/31/2018
- Paper on the reasons for solar energy’s cost decline in Vox: 'What made solar panels so cheap? Thank government policy’ - 11/20/2018
- Paper on solar’s cost decline in The New York Times, Ars Technica, Financial Times, MIT News - 11/28/2018, 11/26/2018, 11/24/2018, 11/20/2018
- New paper in Energy Policy: Evaluating the causes of cost reduction in photovoltaic modules - 11/20/2018
- New grant from MIT's Office of Sustainability to design and study on-campus renewable energy storage systems - 11/2/2018
- Goksin Kavlak gives a guest lecture at Boston College about material requirements of PV and implications for PV costs - 10/2/2018
- Prof. Trancik speaks with Power Technology - 9/19/2018
- Prof. Trancik is interviewed by Trailblazers with Walter Isaacson about battery technology - 9/12/2018
- Marco Miotti presents an invited talk at the 2018 Swiss-US Energy Innovation Days about interactive tools that inform consumer purchasing decisions - 8/20/2018
- MIT News faculty profile on Prof. Trancik's work - 8/15/2018
- Zachary Needell successfully defends his doctoral thesis (photo) - 8/14/2018
- Short course "Understanding and Predicting Technological Innovation: New Data and Theory" attended by students from South America, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and North America (photo) - 7/27/2018
- New paper in Science: Net-zero emissions energy systems - 6/29/2018
- Prof. Trancik speaks to the Washington Post about US climate policy - 6/1/2018
- Prof. Trancik presents an invited talk at the Gordon Research Conference on Industrial Ecology - 5/24/2018
- Morgan Edwards, Goksin Kavlak, Marco Miotti, and Magdalena Klemun present posters at the Gordon Research Conference on Industrial Ecology (photo) - 5/21/2018
