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Team MITten took first place in the 2025 MADMEC innovation contest for its spray-on coating designed to prevent ice from forming on power lines. (From left to right:) Shaan Jagani, Amber Velez, Matthew Michalek, and Trevor Bormann.

MIT News Office

December 5, 2025

MADMEC winners develop spray-on coating to protect power lines from ice

Placing first in the MADMEC innovation contest, the MITten team aims to curb costly power outages during winter storms.

A new MIT study on expanding the U.S. electrical grid outlines the tradeoffs among reliability, cost, and emissions for different expansion strategies.

MIT News Office

December 4, 2025

What’s the best way to expand the US electricity grid?

A study by MIT researchers illuminates choices about reliability, cost, and emissions.

The modeling tool Macro can help reduce infrastructure planning time and ensure that the power grid can continue to provide customers with efficient, reliable, and low-cost electricity that meets emissions and regulatory standards.

MIT News Office

December 3, 2025

Helping power-system planners prepare for an unknown future

Macro, a modeling tool developed by the MIT Energy Initiative, enables energy-system planners to explore options for developing infrastructure to support decarbonized, reliable, and low-cost power grids.

Initial experimental setup, showing the submerged axisymmetric model rigidly attached at about mid-length to the towing carriage through a streamlined strut.

MIT News Office

December 2, 2025

MIT researchers demonstrate ship hull modifications to cut fuel use

Wedge-shaped vortex generators reduce drag in ship hulls, which could advance decarbonization for the shipping industry.

MIT graduate students select Napa cabbage and other produce harvested the previous day by MIT volunteers at the Monday Farm Stand in Stata Lobby.

MIT News Office

November 25, 2025

Mind, hand, and harvest

A volunteer-driven pilot program brings low-cost organic produce to the MIT community.

Because of the power density advantages of ammonia over renewables and batteries, Amogy is targeting power-hungry industries like maritime shipping, power generation, construction, and mining.

MIT News Office

November 25, 2025

Unlocking ammonia as a fuel source for heavy industry

Four MIT alumni say their startup, Amogy, has the technology to help decarbonize maritime shipping, power generation, manufacturing, and more.

Researchers at MIT and elsewhere are investigating how AI can be harnessed to support the clean energy transition.

MIT News Office

November 24, 2025

How artificial intelligence can help achieve a clean energy future

AI supports the clean energy transition as it manages power grid operations, helps plan infrastructure investments, guides development of novel materials, and more.

Snowy campus building with a large dome and tall columns framed by bare trees under a clear blue sky, conveying a serene winter scene.

MIT Office of Sustainability

November 24, 2025

Kicking Off IAP Climate 2026

Ernest Opoku’s goal is to advance computational methods to study how electrons behave — a fundamental research that underlies applications ranging from materials science to drug discovery.

MIT News Office

November 19, 2025

Quantum modeling for breakthroughs in materials science and sustainable energy

Quantum chemist and School of Science Dean’s Postdoctoral Fellow Ernest Opoku is working on computational methods to study how electrons behave.