The recent installation of transformers at Sabana Llana, Crea, and Mora substations marks a significant step in Puerto Rico’s grid modernization. Funded by federal and non-federal sources, these projects bolster system capacity, reduce risks, and ensure stable power for communities.
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Many experts refer to hydrogen as “the fuel of the future.” It is expected to help decarbonize the global economy in two main ways: Burning it or feeding it into a fuel cell produces storable energy with no carbon emissions,…
Earlier this year, the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) launched a major study to examine the sustainable fuel options for aviation, international shipping, long-haul trucking, and freight rail. More than one-tenth of the world’s climate-warming greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions related to…
As part of her MITEI Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) project, Lucy Greenup ’28 studied radiation defects in nuclear materials and how these materials can be returned from failure to function. Greenup, a nuclear engineering and materials science student, shares…
The MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) recently awarded six grants totaling more than $1 million through its Seed Innovation Fund program, which sponsors early-stage MIT research projects aimed at supporting the energy transition. Each of the six funded projects will receive $175,000…
Via Separations, a startup company based on technology originally developed with MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) support, announced $36 million in new venture funding in April, bringing its total funding to about $80 million. The Watertown, MA–based company has developed membrane…
Kaitlyn Flowers ’26, a chemical engineering major and energy studies minor (ESM) at MIT, analyzes the policies and economics shaping the energy industry, focusing her studies on the business side of the sector. Flowers discusses how the ESM and climate…