Funder: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Due Dates (Anticipated): February 2027 (Late Winter outlines) | June 2027 (Early Summer outlines)
Funding Amounts: Short projects: up to $150,000 for one year | Full projects: up to $300,000 for two years
Summary: Supports MIT-led energy systems, economics, and policy analyses addressing challenges in decarbonizing the global economy.
Key Information: Applicants must be MIT principal investigators; projects are not intended to develop new technologies or inventions.
Description
The MIT Energy Initiative’s (MITEI) Future Energy Systems Center funds research addressing important questions in decarbonizing the global economy. Projects primarily use established methodologies for systems, economics, or policy analysis, including techno-economic assessments, energy systems analysis, technology outlooks, and studies of policy impacts.
The Center is an industry research consortium delivering actionable insights for navigating the energy transition through multisectoral analyses of emerging technologies, changing policies, and evolving economics. Its research interests span electricity, sustainable fuels, energy storage, transportation, industry, buildings, carbon management, and policy. Across these areas, the Center also seeks analyses of regional differences in resources, needs, assets, and policies across geographies and countries.
