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Writing for Greentech Media, Julian Spector discusses the effects of the Trump Administration's proposed budget cuts on the Office of Energy Policy and Systems Analysis established by MIT professor and former U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz.

In an op-ed in The Boston Globe, MIT professor and former U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz voices his concerns about the ramifications of the Trump Administration's decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement. Moniz states that the decision "is bad for science-based decision making, national and energy security, and innovation."

In an article for The New York Times about the growing number of autonomous public transportation programs in Europe, Mark Scott highlights Prof. Carlo Ratti’s work testing driverless boats in Amsterdam. In addition to ferrying people and goods, the driverless boats will also be able to “automatically dock with each other, creating on-demand bridges and walkways whenever necessary."

In an article for Utility Dive, Peter Maloney quotes MITEI PhD candidate Jesse Jenkins on the economics of solar-plus-storage projects.

Writing for Brookings Institution, Devashree Saha and Mark Muro explore how the traditional venture capital model may be ill-suited for many cleantech sectors, citing a recent MITEI report on the subject.

In an op-ed in The Hill, MIT professor and former U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz voices his concerns about what President Trump's proposed budget means for U.S. energy security and low-carbon innovation.

Writing for NOVA Next, Annette Choi talks with MITEI Director Robert Armstrong and research scientist Apurba Sakti on the value of developing energy storage solutions to maximize the potential of renewable energy technologies and make the electric grid more reliable, flexible, and adaptable.

In an article for The Hill, Prof. Valerie Karplus highlights the economic risks of ignoring the emerging market for clean energy. Karplus writes that, “abandoning the fight against climate change…will take away U.S. jobs.”

Devashree Saha and Mark Muro, writing for Brookings, reference MITEI's recent cleantech venture capital (VC) report in an analysis of VC's future prospects.

ABC7 Eyewitness News interviews MIT sophomore Allie Shepard on her experience installing solar panels on the roofs of low-income households during MITEI's Solar Spring Break.

Steve Baragona, writing for VOA, interviews MITEI research director Francis O'Sullivan on the increasing role of renewables in new energy facilities.

Bruce Gellerman of WBUR spotlights Ambri, an MIT startup co-founded by Prof. Donald Sadoway and alumnus David Bradwell that creates liquid metal batteries. Ambri’s “molten metal technology is at the cutting edge of the emerging energy storage industry,” writes Gellerman.