Over the past decades, a number of cost-effective technologies for electrifying office buildings have come online. Combining our deep knowledge of technology and modeling enables us to investigate the potential for emerging supply and demand-side technologies, along with policy to impact the energy system of the future-exposing new opportunities and threats within a host of industries, as well as unmet research needs.ĭecarbonizing commercial buildings through electrification is critical in order for governments and industry stakeholders worldwide to reach their net zero targets. Our work rests on two pillars: MITEI’s world-class range of capabilities in energy system modeling and analysis and the cutting-edge campus-wide energy technology research program overseen by MITEI, spanning all of MIT’s departments, as well as our affiliated policy research centers including the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR) and the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change. Members are invited to participate in all focus area working groups without limit. These will initially include electric power, energy storage and low-carbon fuels, transportation, industrial processes, carbon management, and the built environment. The Center brings together ongoing technoeconomic and systems-oriented research from MITEI’s Low-Carbon Energy Centers into one unified center, creating a holistic energy system analysis capability with integrated research focus areas. Member companies will include both energy suppliers and consumers demonstrating the impact decarbonization will have on a wide range of industries. As a member-supported consortium, the Center continues MITEI’s long history of working with companies throughout the energy sector. The Future Energy Systems Center serves as a single point of entry into MITEI and the MIT energy research community at large. All existing consortium-based LCEC projects and memberships continue within the Future Energy Systems Center. Looking for the Low-Carbon Energy Centers? The Low-Carbon Energy Centers have been integrated into MITEI’s new Future Energy Systems Center, announced in spring 2021 as part of MIT’s Climate Action Plan for the Decade. Our work draws upon MIT research in traditional energy-related disciplines, as well as from cross-disciplinary fields such as energy and environmental policy, climate science, carbon management, energy economics, behavioral science, cybersecurity, information technology, and artificial intelligence. The Center conducts integrated analysis of the energy system, providing insights into the complex multisectoral transformations that will alter the power and transportation systems, industry, and built environment.
The Future Energy Systems Center examines the accelerating energy transition as emerging technology and policy, demographic trends, and economics reshape the landscape of energy supply and demand.
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