news – Trancik Lab

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