MITEI’s corporate member program facilitates collaborations between industry and MIT to research, develop, and accelerate low- and zero-carbon solutions for the energy transition. MITEI’s member roster is reflective of MITEI’s mission to work across the broad industrial spectrum of energy production, conversion, delivery, and usage.
Member highlights
- Overall, in FY25, MITEI maintained a steady membership roster of 38 members. Reflecting ongoing efforts to diversify across the energy spectrum, MITEI welcomed several notable new members, including Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, Siemens Energy, and RWE (a German multinational energy company). MITEI also welcomed GE Vernova as part of their role in the new MIT-GE Vernova Research Alliance. GE Vernova’s Sustaining membership in MITEI was finalized in early FY26.
- A key focus in FY25 was the successful renewal of Founding and Sustaining memberships and memberships within the Future Energy Systems Center.
- As members’ research organizations rebounded from Covid-19 disruptions, their research priorities evolved from single-PI, relatively straightforward projects to complex, multi-disciplinary initiatives involving multiple PIs. To support this shift, MITEI organized workshops that connected members and PI teams, enabling them to pitch project ideas to founding members ExxonMobil and Shell. As a result, we have launched—or are on the verge of launching—six complex, multi-PI, multi-year projects aimed at addressing critical challenges across all aspects of the energy transition.
- As part of MITEI’s efforts to help industry and governments facing critical energy transition decisions, MITEI executed a workshop in Taiwan under the TIGER Consortium. This was a collaboration with the EPOCH Foundation meant to help Taiwan develop a robust roadmap for its own green energy transition.
Along with financial support for research, analyses, and education, industry members contribute valuable perspectives and detailed knowledge of real-world conditions for practical scaling-up, deployment, and integration of decarbonization solutions.
MITEI draws on MIT’s research capabilities, innovation, expertise, and experience to create successful industry collaborations to meet its research partners’ key strategic objectives. A multi-tiered membership structure enables diverse private-sector partners to sponsor multidisciplinary “flagship” research programs with MIT faculty; contribute to energy-focused labs, programs, and centers at MIT; fund undergraduate and graduate students working on the energy transition; support innovative energy concepts from proposals solicited across the campus; and participate in MITEI’s seminars, lectures, and colloquia.
A list of members is available on the MITEI website.
