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Read about some of the most significant developments in renewable energy from MIT in the last ten years—and what could be on the horizon.

Demand for the metal, which is critical to EV batteries, could soon outstrip supply.

Buildings with responsive sensors can personalize the climate of an office to suit its occupants and save on needless energy use.

MIT researchers have made improvements to liquid-sodium batteries, potentially paving the way for the battery to be used for renewable energy storage, reports Laney Ruckstuhl for The Boston Globe. “Unlike lithium-ion batteries used in cellphones and laptops, the liquid-sodium batteries won’t lose their capacity quickly.”

California and New England are about to find out what the market-based mechanism for reducing emissions can really do.

Professor Michael Strano spoke with CNN’s Nicola Davison about his recent work making plants glow. "We're thinking about how we can engineer plants to replace functions of the devices that we encounter every day. The things that we make out of plastic and circuit boards -- can we replace those with a living plant?" said Strano.

In an article for NBC News about solar power, Corey Powell highlights Prof. Jeffrey Grossman’s work developing a material for a new chemical heat battery that could release energy on demand. “We’re creating materials that store thermal energy in completely new ways,” Grossman explains.

A new study from the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, written by MITEI Researcher Jesse Jenkins, concludes low natural gas prices are the primary cause of nuclear plants' struggles in organized markets — not renewable energy.

Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosselló discusses proposed federal tax policies and working with MIT on solutions for climate-resilient reconstruction at the Resilient Reconstruction of the Caribbean conference hosted by MITEI.

In this article from Bloomberg, MITEI's director of research Francis O'Sullivan and researcher Justin Montgomery discuss "game-changing" evidence that the U.S. Department of Energy's official forecast may vastly overstate future oil and gas production.

In an interview with Bloomberg’s Alix Steel, MITEI’s Justin Montgomery discusses his research on oil and technology.