news – Trancik Lab

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