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🔔 FEATURED

MITEI’s Future Energy Systems Center launches 12 new projects to accelerate the energy transition

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At their Spring Workshop, the Center kicked off a new set of energy projects, with topics ranging from optimizing energy storage to transporting hydrogen energy.

📖  NEWS

Making climate models relevant for local decision-makers

Full story via MIT News

How battery-swap networks are preventing emergency blackouts

Full story via MIT Technology Review

🎙️  IN THE MEDIA

Former Mass. transportation secretary talks congestion pricing

  Listen via WBUR

Jim Aloisi (MIT Transit Research Consortium) discusses the potential impact of the “indefinite pause” on a congestion pricing program in New York City.

This EV battery can go 1,000 miles on a single charge

Full story via Fast Company

MIT startup, 24M, has designed an electric vehicle battery that's safer, easier to recycle, and lasts much longer without needing a charge—1,000 miles compared to the typical 300-400 miles.

🗓️  EVENTS

U.S. C3E Women in Clean Energy seminar series: Advanced nuclear energy – Electricity and beyond

Thursday, July 11, 2:00-3:00pm ET, Zoom

✍️  OPPORTUNITIES

Request for proposals: 2024 MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium Seed Awards

Deadline for submissions: August 1

The MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium (MCSC) is a cross-institute effort, aimed at generating new partnerships and approaches to building large-scale, cross-sector, real-world solutions that address global climate and sustainability challenges. This request for proposals articulates one of several ways that the MCSC seeks principal investigator engagement to link the work of the consortium to ongoing and emerging climate and sustainability efforts on campus, particularly translational work across multiple domains of problem-relevant expertise.

MITEI is hiring !

Check out the latest career opportunities and come work with us.

C3E Initiative job board and career resources

The Clean Energy Education and Empowerment (C3E) Initiative hosts a list of jobs, professional development resources, and networking opportunities for both working professionals and students. You can also submit your own clean energy job opportunity.

👋  BEFORE YOU GO...

50g/kW hour

According to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, solar energy typically releases less than 50 grams of CO2 per kilowatt hour, compared to the typical coal plant releasing 1,000 grams of CO2 per kilowatt hour.