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Vox reporter David Roberts interviews MITEI's Jesse Jenkins and Director Robert Armstrong on the changes taking place in today's electricity system and the solutions offered in the Utility of the Future report.

During a trip to Rome to renew MIT’s partnership with Eni aimed at accelerating clean energy technologies, President L. Rafael Reif spoke with Alessia Rastelli of Corriere della Sera about MIT’s Climate Action Plan, the Campaign for a Better World and bringing world-changing ideas to the marketplace. Reif explains that MIT researchers want to “have an impact on a global scale.”

Katherine Tweed, writing for Greentech Media, reports on major takeaways of MIT's Utility of the Future study, which provides a comprehensive examination of utilities' best options in proactively adapting around ongoing changes in the provision and consumption of energy services.

Robert Walton, writing for Utility Dive, reports on 2016's patchwork progress on integrating distributed energy resources into the grid, and makes a case for integrating key findings from MIT's Utility of the Future study into 2017 developments.

Writing for Midwest Energy News, David J. Unger reports on MITEI's Utility of the Future study, which calls for an overhaul of the U.S. electric grid to achieve savings for consumers and businesses, and more fairly incorporate distributed energy technologies like wind, solar, and energy storage.

Peter Maloney discusses MITEI's Utility of the Future study, emphasizing the importance of acting on the findings.

Reporting on MITEI's Utility of the Future study for EnergyWire, Peter Behr highlights the study's emphasis on time- and location-specific value in the integration of distributed energy resources like solar power into the grid.

Abhilasha Purwar writes for GreenBiz about key takeaways and predictions from a MITEI report on the adequacy of venture capital and other investment schemes in funding cleantech.

In assessing the stability of a local venture capital firm focusing on environmental sustainability, Thomas Lee, writing for the San Francisco Chronicle, cites MIT Energy Initiative research investigating the causes of investment losses in the clean tech sector.

MIT Sloan School Professor John Sterman talks with Marketplace about the advantages of following through with the Paris Agreement.

Jessika Trancik, an associate professor of energy studies in the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, writes in the Washington Post about future U.S. climate policy. She says that "a Trump administration alone cannot halt global progress. Even if U.S. federal policy is diminished, individual states are well equipped to take up the slack."

On France24, MIT Sloan School Professor John Sterman discusses COP22 in Marrakech and the future of the Paris Agreement in the wake of the U.S. elections.