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Prof. Trancik speaks with the Boston Globe about the role of soft technologies in accelerating the adoption of clean energy technologies - 8/24/2023
Paper on reducing the system, and especially soft, costs of solar energy technologies is published in Nature Energy and featured in MIT News - 8/17/2023 (MIT homepage spotlight on 8/20), a Nature Energy News & Views article - 8/17/2023, and E&E News’ EnergyWire - 8/18/2023
The Lab’s research into the steep cost declines of clean energy technologies is mentioned in The New York Times - 8/13/2023
Prof. Trancik speaks with the AP about the environmental impacts and adoption of electric vehicles - 8/6/2023
Prof. Trancik speaks with NPR’s Marketplace about cost declines in electric vehicles - 7/19/2023
The Trancik Lab’s carboncounter.com is featured in The Washington Post’s guide to electric vehicles - 4/18/2023
Prof. Trancik speaks with Bloomberg about solar-powered electric vehicles - 3/29/2023
Prof. Trancik discusses the role of research and development and understanding demand in automakers’ efforts to scale production of electric vehicles on NPR’s Marketplace - 3/23/2023
Paper on strategies for electric vehicle charging to help the grid and store solar energy is published in Cell Reports Physical Science, and featured in MIT News, The Hill - 3/15/2023, Fast Company - 3/17/2023, and Cleantechnica - 3/20/2023
Prof. Trancik speaks with NPR’s Marketplace about the strategic placement of chargers for electric vehicles - 2/16/2023
New report released: Accelerating Climate Innovation: A Mechanistic Approach and Lessons for Policymakers - 1/31/2023
Dr. Micah S. Ziegler joins the steering committee of Macro-Energy Systems - 12/23/2022
Prof. Trancik speaks with Bloomberg about hybrid vehicles and how vehicle choices can shift the market for sustainable transportation - 12/19/2022
Dr. Micah S. Ziegler presents his research on sustainable energy systems and possible opportunities for chemical and materials technologies at the AIChE Annual Meeting - 11/17/2022
Paper on equivalency metrics used to compare emissions of short- and long-lived greenhouse gases is published in Climatic Change - 11/11/2022
Prof. Trancik speaks with Bloomberg about electric vehicle charging and electrifying transportation - 10/28/2022
Prof. Trancik joins Ira Flatow on Science Friday to discuss electric vehicles - 10/7/2022
Dr. Micah S. Ziegler presents his research on energy systems and technological change as part of the seminar series for the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania - 9/21/2022
Results from our study on the cost decline of lithium-ion batteries are mentioned in The New York Times - 9/16/2022
Prof. Trancik speaks with Marketplace about how tax incentives in the Inflation Reduction Act could help reduce vehicle costs and more equitably distribute benefits of electric vehicles - 9/9/2022
Prof. Trancik speaks with the Wall Street Journal about how government policies can drive innovation in clean energy technologies - 8/24/2022
Prof. Trancik speaks with Marketplace about government policies designed to make electric vehicle charging more accessible and equitable - 7/20/2022
Our study on the improvement of lithium-ion batteries is mentioned on Marketplace - 7/14/2022
Dr. Micah S. Ziegler presents in the keynote session on Energy Systems at MIT A+B and discusses how to accelerate improvement of energy storage technologies - 7/5/2022
Prof. Trancik speaks with Marketplace about the need to make the infrastructure for charging electric vehicles universal - 6/9/2022
Prof. Trancik speaks with Forbes about the environmental impacts of choosing personal vehicles, highlighting carboncounter.com - 5/26/2022
Prof. Trancik speaks with ABC News about the current state of our energy system, and transitioning to renewable resources and other clean energy, battery energy storage, and electric vehicles - 4/20/2022
Prof. Trancik speaks with The Wall Street Journal about the steep cost declines in solar and lithium-ion battery technologies - 4/4/2022
Prof. Trancik speaks with NBC News about government policies designed to spur domestic manufacturing of battery materials - 4/3/2022
Prof. Trancik discusses the future of electric vehicles at a live event hosted by The Hill - 3/16/2022
Dr. Wei Wei presents at Transforming Transportation: Climate-Centered Mobility for a Sustainable Recovery - 2/17/2022
Prof. Trancik presents on energy storage technologies and transportation at Stanford’s StorageX International Symposium - 2/11/2022
Dr. Wei Wei and Prof. Trancik speak with USA Today about the deployment of infrastructure for electric vehicles - 2/11/2022
Prof. Trancik speaks with AP News about strategies for deploying charging infrastructure in order to enable adoption of electric vehicles - 2/10/2022
Prof. Trancik speaks with Wired about electric vehicles, range anxiety, and deploying charging infrastructure equitably - 2/9/2022
Prof. Trancik speaks with Marketplace about fast chargers for electric vehicles and how far Americans drive regularly - 2/10/2022
Dr. Wei Wei presents at the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting - 1/10/2022
Wei Wei successfully defends her doctoral thesis - 1/4/2022
Prof. Trancik speaks with Marketplace about strategies to improve the deployment of EV chargers - 12/14/2021
Prof. Trancik speaks with USA Today to clarify the environmental impacts of switching to electric vehicles - 12/13/2021
Carboncounter.com is featured by The Washington Post in a list of inventions and plans that are addressing climate change - 11/8/2021
Dr. Micah S. Ziegler presents at Stanford's Energy Resources Engineering Seminar series and discusses the improvement of lithium-ion battery technologies - 11/01/2021
Prof. Trancik presents at Nature's conference on Waste Management and Valorisation for a Sustainable Future - 10/26/2021
Prof. Trancik presents at INFORMS on research with Wei Wei on high-impact locations for electric vehicle charging stations - 10/23/2021
Wei Wei has been awarded a 2021 Lee Schipper Memorial Scholarship for Sustainable Transport and Energy Efficiency - 10/19/2021
Dr. Micah S. Ziegler presents at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and discusses the improvement of energy storage technologies - 9/20/2021
Prof. Trancik speaks at the launch event for the Council of Engineers for the Energy Transition, an independent advisory council to the United Nations Secretary General - 9/16/2021
NOVA podcast with Prof. Trancik discusses electric vehicle infrastructure needs - 8/20/2021
Prof. Trancik speaks with Marketplace Tech and Marketplace about vehicle electrification - 7/29/2021, 8/5/2021
Prof. Trancik speaks with The World about battery thermal management - 8/2/2021
Prof. Trancik is promoted to Full Professor - 7/1/2021
Dr. Micah S. Ziegler presents research on the improvement of lithium-ion battery technology to ISSST 2021 - 6/24/2021
Our World in Data and de Volkskrant cover the lab’s research on improvement trends in lithium-ion battery technology - 6/4/2021, 6/11/2021
Dr. Micah S. Ziegler speaks with IEEE Spectrum about the cost decline and performance improvement of lithium-ion battery technology - 5/26/2021
Prof. Trancik speaks with NPR's New England News Collaborative about the future of electric vehicles - 4/22/2021
Prof. Trancik speaks with David Roberts on Vox Conversations (‘How to replace everything in the industrialized world’) about technology, innovation, and government policy, and their role in mitigating climate change equitably and efficiently, with highlights excerpted in Vox Quick Hits - 4/15/2021
Prof. Trancik writes for The Conversation: Technology innovation gives government leverage to drive down emissions fast - 4/7/2021
Prof. Trancik discusses clean energy technology cost decline and vehicle electrification on The Interchange podcast - 4/1/2021
The Economist's Graphic detail features results from the lab's research on lithium-ion battery technology cost decline and performance improvement - 3/31/2021
Prof. Trancik speaks with the BBC Newshour (at 45 min into the hour) and discusses our recent work estimating lithium-ion battery technology cost decline and performance improvement - 3/25/2021
Paper on lithium-ion battery technology cost decline and performance improvement is published in Energy & Environmental Science and featured in MIT News, Yale Environment 360 - 3/25/2021 (MIT homepage spotlight on 3/23), and cited by BBC News Ukraine - 4/21/2021
Paper on charging solutions for widespread vehicle electrification is published in Nature Energy and featured in MIT News, Nature Energy’s News and Views, New York Times, WBUR, The Hill - 1/21/2021, 1/29/2021, 2/1/2021, 2/17/2021 (MIT homepage spotlight on 1/24-1/25)
Paper on the potential for widespread vehicle electrification is selected as Nature Energy’s Chief Editor Nicky Dean's favorite from the past five years - 1/21/2021
What’s going on in this graph? The New York Times’ Learning Network uses carboncounter.com data as a learning tool and asks students everywhere to weigh in - 1/21/2021
Carboncounter.com 2021 launches (and is featured in The New York Times) - 1/14/2021, 1/15/2021 (and on 1/25 in the opinion section)
Prof. Trancik presents to the Indonesian Ministry of Transportation - 12/21/2020
Ava Waitz has been awarded a 2022 Schwarzman Scholarship and was featured in MIT News - 12/15/2020
Prof. Trancik presents at a congressional briefing on high-impact climate policies - 12/11/2020
Prof. Trancik speaks on a C3E panel on clean energy challenges and opportunities - 12/8/2020
Lab alum Dr. Magdalena K. Klemun has joined The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology's Division of Public Policy as an Assistant Professor! - 12/01/2020
Paper on the sources of cost overruns in nuclear power plant construction published in Joule and featured in MIT News, Ars Tecnica, Energy Futures, Forbes, Greentech Media - 11/18/2020, 11/21/2020, 11/25/2020, 12/1/2020, 12/8/2020
Prof. Trancik speaks with Connecticut Public Radio about research on methane leaks and mitigation strategies - 11/19/2020
Report published on New Mexico's energy transition and opportunities on the path to decarbonization, and presented to NM Legislature's Water and Natural Resources Committee - 10/27/2020, 11/9/2020
Prof. Trancik discusses the lab's research on hydrogen production technology and related infrastructure at MITEI’s first virtual Annual Research Conference (summarized by MITEI here) - 11/17/2020
Prof. Trancik speaks with Utility Dive about the impact of a blockchain standard for electric vehicle integration and the importance of equitable technology innovation - 10/19/2020
Paper on research priorities for supporting subnational climate policies published in WIREs Climate Change and summarized here - 8/13/2020, 8/17/2020
Dr. Aliza Khurram joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Associate - 9/14/2020
Prof. Trancik discusses IEA innovation report findings with Timur Gül at CSIS - 7/22/2020
Dr. Micah S. Ziegler presents our research on energy storage and lithium-ion technologies at the Battery Modeling Webinar Series - 7/28/2020
Nature writes 'Where I work' article on Prof. Trancik and Trancik Lab vehicle emissions app (carboncounter.com) - 5/12/2020
'Storing renewables' by Prof. Trancik published in the UNA-UK's Climate 2020 - 4/27/2020
Prof. Trancik and Gökşin Kavlak discuss their work on energy technology evolution in a MITEI podcast - 4/7/2020
Magdalena Klemun discusses challenges and opportunities of wind and solar power in a podcast by the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative - 4/2/2020
Lab alum Dr. Morgan R. Edwards will join the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s La Follette School of Public Affairs as an Assistant Professor in Climate Policy this coming fall! - 03/06/2020
Prof. Trancik talks with Jim Rutt about energy returns on investment and learning curves - 2/17/2020
Paper on timelines for mitigating methane emissions from natural gas infrastructure in Inside Climate News, Natural Gas Intel, MIT News - 1/30/2020, 12/30/2019, 12/16/2019
Short course "Understanding and Predicting Technological Innovation: New Data and Theory" concludes - 1/29/2020
Prof. Trancik teaches professional short-course on 'Evaluating Technologies for a Clean Energy Transition' in Brazil - 1/6/2020
Prof. Trancik co-organizes and moderates MIT's Climate symposium on 'Decarbonizing the Electricity Sector' - 12/4/2019
Wei Wei, Sankaran Ramakrishnan, Micah Ziegler, Prof. Trancik Lab participate in MIT-Portugal workshop on 'Modeling Sustainable Cities' - 12/3/2019
Magdalena Klemun successfully defends her doctoral thesis - 11/14/2019
Prof. Trancik is interviewed by the Financial Times on renewable energy costs - 11/6/2019
Prof. Trancik is interviewed by the Los Angeles Times on subnational climate action - 11/4/2019
Marco Miotti successfully defends his doctoral thesis - 10/8/2019
Prof. Trancik presents at the MIT Portugal 2019 Annual Conference - 9/30/2019
Prof. Trancik is interviewed by WGBH Greater Boston - 9/12/19
Prof. Trancik provides live (real-time) written commentary during CNN’s Climate Crisis Town Hall, article 1, article 2 - 9/5/2019
Paper on storage requirements and costs in Vox: 'Getting to 100% renewables requires cheap energy storage. But how cheap?' - 8/9/2019
New paper in Joule: Storage requirements and costs of shaping renewable energy toward grid decarbonization - 8/7/2019
Magdalena Klemun presents at NREL workshop on methods for R&D portfolio analysis and evaluation - 7/18/2019
Goksin Kavlak presents at the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Urban Environment in Xiamen, China - 7/15/2019
Goksin Kavlak presents at ISIE in Beijing - 7/10/2019
Magdalena Klemun presents at ISSST 2019 in Portland - 6/26/2019
Magdalena Klemun awarded Best Presentation at the 2019 Technology, Management, and Policy Graduate Consortium - 6/18/2019
Juhyun Song graduates with a PhD in chemical engineering and a Master of Business Administration - 6/7/2019
Philip Eash-Gates graduates with a Master of Science - 6/7/2019
Professor Trancik delivers keynote at DTU Transportation Summit in Copenhagen - 6/4/2019
Marco Miotti presents at Hitachi-University of Tokyo Forum on Society 5.0 - 4/17/2019
Continued coverage of paper on the reasons for solar energy’s cost decline - 4/5/2019
Micah Ziegler presents on evaluating the costs and value of energy storage to the MIT Portugal delegation - 2/4/2019
Goksin Kavlak is interviewed by CleanTechnica about the causes of cost reduction in photovoltaic modules - 1/31/2019
Prof. Trancik presents at the 2019 MIT Japan conference - 1/24/2019
Continued coverage of carboncounter.com on fastcompany.com and Quartz - 1/17/19
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 Greentech Media, The New York Times, Ars Technica, Financial Times, MIT News - 12/14/2018, 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
Prof. Trancik discusses the potential for cost reductions in photovoltaics with NRG Community Solar - 5/14/2018
Joshua Mueller successfully defends his doctoral thesis (photo) - 4/23/2018
Marco Miotti selected as a member of the Martin Family Society of Fellows for Sustainability for the 2018-2019 academic year - 3/26/2018
Prof. Trancik joins the Academic Advisory Board of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research - 3/12/18
Research by the Trancik Lab featured in Nexus Media article on funding for clean energy research - 2/15/2018
Patent application published based on Trancik Lab research, 'System and Method for Estimating and Predicting Vehicle Trip Energy Consumption' - 2/15/2018
Magdalena Klemun presents a poster at the Department of Energy's Solar Energy Technologies Office Portfolio Review - 2/12/2018
Prof. Trancik discusses how to reduce gasoline consumption in transportation with Christian Science Monitor and Wired - 2/11/2018
Prof. Trancik participates in a panel on autonomous vehicles at the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge - 2/6/2018
Paper by lab members, TripEnergy: Estimating Personal Vehicle Energy Consumption Given Limited Travel Survey Data, wins Barry McNutt award for best paper by the TRB Transportation Energy Committee - 1/9/2018
Continued coverage of carboncounter.com and associated ES&T paper - 1/3/2018
MIT News article on MIT's and the Trancik Lab’s work at the COP23 UN Climate Conference in Bonn - 12/18/17
Prof. Trancik speaks to Science Friday about electric vehicles - 12/15/17
Prof. Trancik presents at a summit on climate leadership in northeastern North America, hosted by MIT - 12/7/17
Article in the Financial Times: Reality is that most EVs emit less CO2 than petrol cars over their lifetimes - 11/18/2017
Prof. Trancik discusses a role for research in spurring technological innovation and enhanced ambition in climate policy at the U.S. Climate Action Center at COP23 (photo) - 11/15/2017
Prof. Trancik, Morgan Edwards, and Magdalena Klemun attend the COP23 UN Climate Conference in Bonn - 11/13/2017
David Parra participates in an energy innovation roundtable hosted by the MIT Energy Initiative and the University of Geneva - 11/9/2017
Sai Sameer Pusapaty joins the lab as an Undergraduate Research Assistant - 11/1/2017
Marco Miotti receives a Siebel Scholarship - 11/1/2017
Ava Waitz joins the lab as an Undergraduate Research Assistant - 10/27/2017
Wei Wei presents a poster at the MIT Energy Night - 10/13/2017
Philip Eash-Gates joins the lab as a Graduate Student - 10/3/2017
Goksin Kavlak promoted to Postdoctoral Associate - 10/1/2017
Goksin Kavlak successfully defends her doctoral thesis - 9/22/2017
David Parra joins the lab as a Visiting Scholar - 9/11/2017
New paper in Transportation Research Record: TripEnergy: Estimating Personal Vehicle Energy Consumption Given Limited Travel Survey Data - 9/1/2017
The Guardian and Washington Post interview Prof. Trancik on the future of battery electric vehicles - 7/19/2017, 8/4/2017
Trancik Lab website highlighted in an MIT Libraries talk on Data Management for Postdocs and Research Scientists - 8/3/2017
Science in the News, the MIT Technology Review, and Fox Business interview Prof. Trancik on energy storage technologies - 5/17/2017, 6/19/2017, 7/31/2017
Prof. Trancik, Morgan Edwards, Goksin Kavlak, Magdalena Klemun, Marco Miotti, and Joshua Mueller present at ISIE/ISSST - 6/25/2017
James McNerney promoted to Research Scientist - 6/14/2017
Morgan Edwards promoted to Postdoctoral Associate - 6/12/2017
Financial Times 'Free Lunch' cites Trancik Lab note on scale of state contributions to emissions reductions - 6/5/17
Notes on the scale of US states' contributions to the Paris Agreement - 6/2/2017
UtilityDRIVE interviews Prof. Trancik on climate policy uncertainty in the U.S. - 6/2/2017
Prof. Trancik discusses renewable energy sources with the Nature Conservancy and Marketplace - 5/1/2017, 6/2/2017
Sankaran Ramakrishnan joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Research Associate - 5/15/2017
Prof. Trancik receives tenure - 5/12/2017
Morgan Edwards successfully defends her doctoral thesis - 04/24/2017
Goksin Kavlak participates in a 'women in energy' panel on the future of clean transportation technology at Columbia University - 4/20/2017
Magdalena Klemun presents at the Environmental Solutions Initiative Earth Week Mini-Symposium - 4/20/2017
Washington Post interviews Prof. Trancik on the reasons for solar's cost decline - 3/31/2017
GreenBiz article on the race to zero-emissions vehicles cites Trancik Lab research - 3/28/2017
New paper in Faraday Discussions: Vehicle emissions of short-lived and long-lived climate forcers: Trend and tradeoffs - 3/28/2017
Prof. Trancik presents at the AAAS 2017 Annual Meeting: Modeling Technology Innovation to Accelerate Clean Energy Development - 2/13/2017
MIT News article on Explained: Greenhouse Gases references Trancik Lab research - 1/30/2017
Credit Suisse's Michael Mauboussin interviews Prof. Trancik: Coming Clean with Energy Cost Curves - 1/19/2017
NPR's Outside/In interviews Prof. Trancik on solar power and net metering - 1/5/2017
MIT Scope article: Trancik Lab: From Data to Action - 12/29/2016
Continued news coverage of carboncounter.com and recent ES&T paper by ThinkProgress, Sierra Magazine, and others - 11/30/2016
Invited correspondence article in Nature on energy innovation, the US election, and global climate change mitigation efforts - 11/24/2016
New opinion article in the Washington Post on global climate progress under uncertain US federal policy - 11/21/2016
MIT News article on Trancik Lab's battery research and Materials Day presentation - 10/6/2016
Paper on personal vehicles and carboncounter.com in MIT News, New York Times, Guardian, Vox, NPR's Morning Edition, others - 9/28/2016
New app: carboncounter.com (video here) - 9/27/2016
New paper in Environmental Science & Technology: Personal Vehicles Evaluated against Climate Change Mitigation Targets - 9/27/2016
Paper on battery electric vehicles in MIT News, Washington Post, Guardian, Bloomberg, Pacific Standard, CNBC, and others - 8/15/2016
New paper published in Nature Energy: Potential for widespread electrification of personal vehicle travel in the United States - 8/15/2016
Paper on energy storage for renewables in MIT News, the Financial Times, ClimateWire, ThinkProgress, UtilityDive, and others - 6/14/2016
Paper published in Nature Climate Change: Value of storage technologies for wind and solar energy - 6/13/2016
Research on clean energy development trends and climate policy featured in MITEI Energy Futures magazine - 6/1/2016
Magdalena Klemun presents a poster at the 2016 C3E Symposium at Stanford University - 5/31/2016
Marco Miotti presents Trancik Lab's interactive website on vehicle climate impacts in MITEI's Maker Space at MIT's Open House - 4/23/2016
Prof. Trancik interviewed by LA Times in article on Aliso Canyon natural gas leak - 1/24/2016
Greentech Media features recent report on the outlook for solar and wind energy under Paris agreement - 12/28/2015
New correspondence article in Nature: Innovation: Clean energy enters virtuous cycle - 12/16/2015
White House press release on the Paris Agreement references the mutually reinforcing cycle of emissions reduction and technology improvement - 12/12/2015
CS Monitor features recent Trancik Lab report on innovation expected under Paris climate pledges - 12/11/2015
New opinion article in the Christian Science Monitor: The hidden virtuous cycle of Paris climate pledges - 12/10/2015
Prof. Trancik quoted in a Christian Science Monitor article on Paris climate pledges - 12/9/2015
New opinion article in Neue Zürcher Zeitung: Energietechnologie: Neu ist gut, berechenbar ist besser - 12/9/2015
Recent report on clean energy innovation featured in the Financial Times: 'As Paris begins' - 11/30/2015
Prof. Trancik discusses technology innovation and climate change mitigation on NPR's Marketplace - 11/30/2015
Scientific American article references Trancik Lab report - 11/18/2015
White House blog on clean energy and climate negotiations features Trancik Lab report - 11/13/2015
DOE website features Trancik Lab report on clean energy and climate negotiations - 11/13/2015
MIT news article and MIT Energy Initiative post on new report - 11/13/2015
New report released: Technology improvement and emissions reductions as mutually reinforcing efforts: Observations from the global development of solar and wind energy - 11/13/2015
Goksin Kavlak presents a poster at the MIT Materials Day, hosted by the MIT Materials Processing Center - 10/14/2015
Marco Miotti presents at the LCA XV Conference - 10/7/2015
Paper to appear in Environmental Research Letters: Methane mitigation timelines to inform energy technology evaluation - 10/2/2015
James McNerney and Goksin Kavlak present at the 2015 Conference on Complex Systems - 9/30/2015
Morgan Edwards receives Siebel Scholarship - 9/8/2015
Training small-planet engineers, MIT News story on Prof. Kimerling's course: 3.003/3.004 - 8/13/2015
New grant from ARPA-E to combine technology and behavioral modeling to support energy-saving transportation choices - 8/6/2015
Professional short course brings together engineers, entrepreneurs and government officials from five continents (photo) - 7/13/2015
Prof. Trancik's work featured in GRIST - 7/10/2015
Poster by Prof. Trancik, Morgan Edwards, Magdalena Klemun, and Mandira Roy presented at COP-21 Scientific Conference - 7/8/2015
Prof. Trancik, Morgan Edwards, Mandira Roy, Goksin Kavlak, Joshua Mueller, and Marco Miotti present at ISIE - 7/7/2015
MIT Energy Initiative news story on metals growth rate requirements for photovoltaics technologies - 7/2/2015
Morgan Edwards awarded Best Presentation at the 2015 Technology Management and Policy Graduate Consortium - 6/23/2015
Joshua Mueller and Morgan Edwards present at the 2015 Technology Management and Policy Graduate Consortium - 6/23/2015
Prof. Trancik's research mentioned in the Financial Times - 6/16/2015
Goksin Kavlak presents at the 38th IAEE International Conference - 5/27/2015
Prof. Trancik's research mentioned in a Financial Times comment piece - 5/19/2015
New grant from the Ford-MIT Alliance to support research on the time-dependent climate impacts of transportation fuels - 4/20/2015
Morgan Edwards selected as a member of the Martin Family Society of Fellows for Sustainability for the 2015-2016 academic year - 4/17/2015
New grant from the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative on mitigating energy-related methane emissions, MIT news story - 4/1/2015
Paper to appear in Energy & Environmental Science: Metals production requirements for rapid photovoltaics deployment - 3/16/2015
Prof. Trancik joins WIRES Climate Change as domain editor on climate change mitigation - 3/1/2015
Prof. Trancik interviewed regarding the EPA's proposed methane regulations by The Hill - 1/16/2015
Research on emissions equivalency metrics featured in MITEI Energy Futures magazine - 12/15/2014
Goksin Kavlak presents at the 2014 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting - 12/3/2014
MIT news story on photovoltaics metals requirements research - 11/3/2014
Paper published in IEEE proceedings: Growth in metals production for rapid photovoltaics deployment - 11/3/2014
Patent allowed on carbon-based solar cell electrodes - 10/2/2014
Prof. Trancik presents a public lecture at McGill and Polytechnique Montreal: video, slides, McGill Tribune article - 9/25/14
Fabian Riether receives a Fulbright Scholarship for the Academic Year 2014-2015 - 9/1/2014
Professor Trancik named the Atlantic Richfield Career Development Professor in Energy Studies - 7/1/2014
Professor Trancik presents an invited talk at the 37th IAEE International Conference on Energy and the Economy - 6/17/2014
NPR coverage of methane emissions research and implications for EPA regulations - 6/13/2014
Goksin Kavlak presents a poster at the 40th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference - 6/8/2014
Prof. Trancik presents a poster at the Gordon Research Conference on Industrial Ecology - 6/1/2014
James McNerney presents a poster at the SunShot Summit - 5/19/2014
Research on emissions equivalency metrics featured in ClimateWire - 4/29/2014
Research on emissions equivalency metrics featured on the Santa Fe Institute website - 4/25/2014
MIT news story on emissions equivalency metrics research - 4/25/2014
Nature Climate Change News and Views article published on emissions equivalency metrics research - 4/25/2014
Paper published in Nature Climate Change: Climate impacts of energy technologies depend on emissions timing - 4/25/2014
New grant from MITEI Seed Fund Program on 'Time-dependent climate impacts of natural gas deployment' - 3/27/2014
Article published in Nature: Back the renewables boom - 3/19/2014
Zach Needell presents a poster at the MIT Transportation Showcase - 2/12/2014
Prof. Trancik elected to the Science Steering Committee of the Santa Fe Institute (term beginning March 1, 2014) - 1/3/2014
MIT News story on research on segmental climate policies - 12/16/13
Paper published in Environmental Science & Technology: Effectiveness of a segmental approach to climate policy - 12/16/2013
Interview with Energie Sensibili on innovation in energy technologies - 10/17/2013
Research on energy patents featured in USA Today, The Hill, Climate Progress, and others - 10/12/2013
Research on energy patents featured on Santa Fe Institute website - 10/10/2013
MIT News story on energy patents research -10/10/2013
Paper published in PLOS ONE: Determinants of the pace of global innovation in energy technologies - 10/10/2013
Nora Xu receives Eni-MIT Energy Fellowship - 9/1/2013
Paper published in Physica A: Network structure of inter-industry flows - 8/6/2013
Morgan Edwards presents at the 7th International Society for Industrial Ecology Biennial Conference - 6/25/2013
Research on evaluating energy technologies against climate targets featured on the MITEI homepage - 6/6/2013
Research on the energy cost-carbon curve featured in ClimateWire - 6/6/2013
Paper published in Environmental Science & Technology: Energy technologies evaluated against climate targets - 6/5/2013
Morgan Edwards presents at the 2013 International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technologies - 5/15/2013
Morgan Edwards receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship - 4/1/2013
Research on technology progress the spotlight feature on the MIT News homepage - 3/6/2013
Paper on predicting technological progress featured in the press, from Nature to Forbes, among others - 3/5/2013
Hamed Ghoddusi to join the faculty at Stevens Institute of Technology as a tenure-track assistant professor - 2/18/2013
New grant from the Department of Energy Sunshot Program on 'Evaluating the causes of photovoltaics cost reduction: why is PV different?' - 1/30/2013
Paper published in PLoS ONE: Statistical basis for predicting technological progress - 1/1/2013
New grant from the Charles E. Reed Faculty Initiatives Fund: 'Commuting patterns and the design of electric vehicle batteries' - 9/1/2012
Goksin Kavlak receives UTC-MIT Energy Fellowship - 9/1/2012
MITEI features article on Prof. Trancik’s graduate seminar Energy Systems and Climate Change Mitigation (ESD.124) - 1/20/2012
Michael Chang receives Eni-MIT Energy Fellowship - 9/1/2011
Morgan Edwards receives MIT Presidential Fellowship - 9/1/2011
Prof. Trancik interviewed by Smartplanet.com (a CBS website): Accelerating clean energy development - 8/31/2011
Paper published in Energy Policy: Historical costs of coal-fired electricity and implications for the future - 6/1/2011
Paper on design complexity featured in the press: MSNBC science blog , TG Daily, and PhysOrg, among others - 5/19/2011
Research on design complexity featured on MIT News homepage - 5/16/2011
Paper published in PNAS: Role of design complexity in technology improvement - 5/16/2011
Here comes the sun (and wind) in SEED Magazine - 8/27/2009
Research on 'Perfecting A Solar Cell by Adding Imperfections' featured in Science Daily - 6/18/2008