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3 Questions: Representative Sean Casten on enabling a just energy transition through policy

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As part of the MITEI Presents: Advancing the Energy Transition speaker series, Illinois Congressman Sean Casten highlights the policy measures necessary to overcome existing roadblocks and decarbonize the U.S. economy.


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📖  NEWS

Governing critical mineral mining and the clean energy transition

Full story via MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative

Study: Fusion energy could play a major role in the global response to climate change

Full story via MITEI / MIT News

🎙️  IN THE MEDIA

'It symbolizes rugged individualism': The bumpy road to electrify the pickup truck

Full story via BBC

Jessika Trancik (Institute for Data, Systems, and Society) discusses the future of EVs and her research lab’s online tool, Carboncounter, that analyzes the climate impact of different vehicles: “A shift to an electric vehicle is one of the single most impactful decisions that someone can make if they want to reduce their own emissions.”

Why aren’t we driving hydrogen powered cars yet? There’s a reason EVs won.

Full story via Popular Science

MITEI Senior Research Scientist Sergey Paltsev weighs in on the roadblocks facing hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle adoption, stating "The answer is very simple: economics." Among other factors, the lack of fueling infrastructure is keeping these vehicles behind their electric counterparts.

🗓️  EVENTS

MITEI Presents: Advancing the Energy Transition with Joseph F. DeCarolis

Wednesday, November 13, 5:15-6:15pm ET, Wong Auditorium, Open to MIT community

Joseph F. DeCarolis, administrator of the U.S. Energy Information Administration, will speak about modeling and long-term projections for the energy transition. His data-driven examination will show where model-based projections went wrong in the past, current trends in energy system development, and methods to ensure that model-based insights are robust to future uncertainty.


MITEI Presents: Advancing the Energy Transition is a new speaker series connecting the MIT community with experts and leaders who are working on urgently needed scientific, technological, and policy solutions so that, together, we can accelerate the energy transition.

2024 C3E Women in Clean Energy Symposium and Awards

Wednesday, November 13, 11:30am-7:45pm ET, virtual

✍️  OPPORTUNITIES

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👋  BEFORE YOU GO...

“In this room we have a lot of power if we work together, convey to all of society what we see as real pathways and policies to solve problems, and take collective action.”


— MITEI Director William H. Green at the 2024 MITEI Annual Research Conference

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