Category: Featured Projects

Technologies change over time at different rates. Here we study the factors that drive technology evolution, and we ask why some technologies improve more quickly than others.

Stationary and mobile energy storage technologies can synchronize energy demand and supply, but need to be evaluated against energy consumption patterns. Here we analyze energy consumption patterns against an intermittent energy supply — from wind and solar energy or vehicle charging stations — to evaluate diverse storage technologies and their development trends.

The impacts of technologies depend on various factors, including the background state of the environment.

We are developing ways to assess the risks of existing and new technologies in terms of cost and other performance metrics. This includes asking how such risks may change with the scale of a technology’s adoption.