This year's MIT Energy conference provided showcase for energy entrepreneurs as investors and executives grappled with how to make giant energy business cleaner. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Distributed energy resources -- relatively small-scale power technologies such as solar, wind, energy storage, and power electronics and control devices -- are being deployed ...

General Electric Co. is joining an energy research program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with the goal of tapping new thinking on cutting carbon emissions and replacing fossil fuels, ...

Eni SpA E, a leading global energy company, has reaffirmed its dedication to low-carbon energy research by extending its membership in the MIT Energy Initiative (“MITEI”) until the end of 2027. This ...

Lithium-ion batteries are the ones consumers are most familiar with, so it seems like the obvious choice to scale them up for grid-scale energy storage – as Tesla did with the world's biggest battery ...

Energy poverty is a global issue impacting families in both rich and poor countries, driven by rising energy prices and other factors. An MIT study found that energy coaching combined with smart ...

Near-limitless clean energy may be closer to reality than previously thought. According to MIT News, the Schmidt Laboratory for Materials in Nuclear Technologies will be operational and begin testing ...

MIT engineers have created a new low-cost battery for storage of renewable energy sources made from inexpensive and abundant materials. Less expensive than lithium-ion battery technology, the new ...

The intermittent nature of wind and solar power generation is one of the biggest challenges facing these renewable energy sources. But this isn’t likely to remain a problem for much longer with ...

A major report from the MIT Energy Initiative finds the development and deployment of new ways to store renewable energy will be crucial to transitioning to clean energy and averting the worst effects ...

Tim Grejtak ‘10 was one of two students who dreamed up the idea for the dorm energy conservation competition in 2006, and he’s been helping to run it ever since. So when he heard that MIT would be ...

MIT professor Nuno Loureiro was fatally shot earlier this week. Here’s what to know about his career and research.