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MITEI's "The Future of Energy Storage" report calls for federal government support to help develop and build green energy storage at scale to enable deeply decarbonized energy systems.

MITEI Future of Energy Storage study emphasizes need for more types of energy storage to maintain reliability and control cost as electricity grids increasingly incorporate sources of variable renewable energy. “When we get to very high degrees of penetration of variable renewable resources, we're going to need to have long-duration storage technologies that make that last part of decarbonization more affordable,” says MITEI Director Robert Armstrong.

Dick Schmalensee (MIT Sloan School of Management) joins Resources Radio to discuss the key takeaways from the recent MIT study on the future of energy storage, along with related insights and implications for current and future policy.

In an article refuting claims that it takes decades to recoup the financial and energy costs of manufacturing wind turbines, Michael Howland (Civil and Environmental Engineering) says that investors wouldn’t fund wind turbine projects if these assertions were true.

A new five-year agreement between MIT and Commonwealth Fusion Systems greatly expands the partnership between the Institute and the leading fusion startup, allowing for the increased interdisciplinary work toward commercial fusion power plants.

One of the five MIT Climate Grand Challenges flagship research teams is developing a digital twin model of earth to help predict how climate change will affect us.

In a Washington Post article on the importance of energy storage in decarbonizing energy systems, reporter Anjani Trivedi highlights findings from MITEI's Future of Energy Storage report, including that a focus on short-term policy goals has limited research and development of newer technologies.

Kristala Prather (Chemical Engineering) discusses her work using synthetic biology to develop new materials that function like plastic, but don't rely on fossil fuels and biodegrade when no longer in use.

MITEI’s Future of Energy Storage report “provides a blueprint for supporting and using grid storage technologies—existing and emerging—to affordably slash emissions,” reports Utility Dive.

Copper is an essential component in the clean energy transition, but purifying it is an incredibly carbon-intensive process. Antoine Allanore (Materials Science and Engineering) has devised a new, fossil fuel-free method that employs electrolysis to separate copper from ore.

In the United Nations climate blog “Electric Future,” Sergey Paltsev (MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, MITEI) highlights challenges in making EVs truly emissions free.

The Future of Energy Storage, a new report from MITEI, is the culmination of a three-year study exploring the role energy storage can play in charting a path to a reliable, affordable, and equitable decarbonized electricity system.