The MIT Energy Club Lecture series is a standing series which offers engaging talks from prominent guest speakers in the energy world. Guests range from academics to regulators, from Fortune 500 executives to startup founders. Topics cover a variety of facets of the energy world, including renewable and traditional energy sources, distribution, pricing, efficiency and transportation. An insightful question and answer session follows each lecture. All members of the MIT Energy Club community from MIT and the local community are welcome to attend.
To get involved or request more information, contact the MIT Energy Club Lecture Chairs: Jared Silvia and Edward Young.
Lecture Series Archives
(Click here to view upcoming Lecture Series events instead.)Systems Issues in Renewable Energy, life cycle assessment and experience curves
12:00-01:00PM Friday, July 16, 2010
Leader: Eric Williams, Professor Arizona State University
Location: NOTE CHANGE: 32-141Empowering and Enabling Clean Energy Entrepreneurs
10:30-11:30AM Monday, May 03, 2010
Leader: MIT Energy Club
Location:Biofuels, Inducible cell wall degrading enzymes for expression in energy crops
06:00-07:00PM Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Leader: Dr. Philip Lessard, Senior Scientist at Agrivida, biofuels company
Location: 4-231Adam Hirsch Dave Boettcher, Next Step Living - Energy Audits
06:00-07:00PM Thursday, March 11, 2010
Leader: MIT Energy Club
Location:Towards a sustainable energy future - closing the loop for technology metals
12:00-01:00PM Monday, February 22, 2010
Leader: Christina Meskers
Location: Building E51-145Solar Power Satellites: Separating Speculation from Reality
06:00-07:00PM Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Leader: Geoffrey A. Landis, NASA scientist
Location: 4-163Department of Energy Initiatives on Renewables and Efficiency
04:00-05:00PM Friday, January 22, 2010
Leader: Dr. Henry Kelly
Location: 3-133Cracking the Carbon Equation - Afternoon and Evening events
02:30-08:00PM Wednesday, December 09, 2009
Leader: Manya Ranjan
Location: 66-110Key Issues in Alternative Energy
12:00-01:00PM Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Leader: Elsa Olivetti
Location: 56-154Robert Swan, Polar Explorer
04:00-05:00PM Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Leader: Elsa Olivetti
Location: E51-395Climate 2030: A National Blueprint for a Clean Energy Economy
06:00-07:00PM Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Leader: Elsa Olivetti
Location: 56-154TODAY: Solar Thermal Technology
04:00-05:00PM Monday, October 19, 2009
Leader: Christian Holter
Location: 32-141Carbon Capture and Sequestration - The Current State of Technology
06:00-07:00PM Wednesday, October 07, 2009
Leader: Mahesh Konduru
Location: E51-335Key Issues in the Water Industry
06:00-07:00PM Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Leader: Mahesh Konduru
Location: E51-335Smart Grid-related Strategies to Achieve Energy Efficiency
06:00-07:00PM Wednesday, September 09, 2009
Leader: Mahesh Konduru
Location: E51-335MA DOER Commissioner Phil Giudice discusses the Future of Energy in MA (DATE CHANGED to 4/29)
06:00-07:00PM Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Leader: Philip Giudice, Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources
Location: E51-149Fusion Energy: What is it and What will it take to get it?
06:00-07:00PM Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Leader: MIT Associate Professor Dennis Whyte
Location: 1-150Wind Power and the Path to a Quarter of the World's Electricity
06:00-07:00PM Wednesday, April 01, 2009
Leader: Dr. James Lyons, Novus Energy Partners CTO, former Chief Engineer of Electrical Systems at GE Research
Location: E51-145The State of Energy Storage Innovations, Development and Investments in (trans) Portable Applications
06:15-08:00PM Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Leader:
Location: 32-123, Kirsch Auditorium, Stata CenterOverview of the Grid Scale Energy Storage Industry
06:00-07:00PM Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Leader: Richard Baxter, Senior VP at Ardour Capital
Location: E51-335Strategies for Enabling Deep Energy Efficiency in Buildings: Can Efficiency Save Us from this Energy Mess?
06:00-07:00PM Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Leader: Harvey Michaels; MIT Energy Efficiency Research Director and MIT Lecturer
Location: 4-153Panel on Integrating Electric Vehicles Into the Grid and Electricity Markets
06:00-07:30PM Thursday, February 12, 2009
Leader: John Kluza
Location: 4-163Future of Energy Panel - NEW LOCATION: E15-070 (Bartos Theater, MIT Media Lab)
06:00-07:30PM Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Leader: John Kluza
Location: E15-070 (Bartos Theater, MIT Media Lab)MIT Enterprise Forum/MIT Energy Club Lecture Series: Panel Discussion - The War for Water
05:30-09:00PM Wednesday, December 03, 2008
Leader:
Location: 32-123, Kirsch Auditorium Stata BuildingMIT Enterprise Forum/Panel Discussion - The War for Water
05:30-09:00PM Wednesday, December 03, 2008
Leader: John Kluza
Location:Lecture series: Future Energy Scenarios from Shell Senior Energy & Economics Advisor Andrew Slaughter
06:00-07:00PM Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Leader: Andrew Slaughter - Senior Energy and Economics Advisor - Shell EP Americas
Location: E51-145Intellectual Property for the Energy Sector
06:00-07:00PM Wednesday, November 05, 2008
Leader: Joe Teja J.D. and Mike Pomianek J.D. from Wolf Greenfield, a local Boston law firm
Location: 4-231Cold Fusion
06:00-07:00PM Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Leader: Dr. Peter Hagelstein, Professor, MIT
Location: TBDFuel Cell Cars
06:00-07:00PM Thursday, October 09, 2008
Leader: Dr. Wataru Nakata, Honda Clarity FCX R&D
Location: TBDOil Price Speculation
06:00-07:00PM Wednesday, October 01, 2008
Leader: Dr. Robert Kaufmann, Professor, BU
Location: TBDWind Power
06:00-07:00PM Thursday, September 25, 2008
Leader: Matthew Common, CFO, FloDesign
Location: 3-343Energy Entrepreneurship
06:00-07:00PM Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Leader: Matthew Nordan, President, Lux Research
Location: E51-145SolarTaxi: Around the World in a Solar-Electric Vehicle
06:00-07:00PM Monday, September 15, 2008
Leader: Louis Palmer, Initiator & Driver of the Solar Taxi
Location: 4-270Energy Markets
06:00-07:00PM Thursday, September 11, 2008
Leader: Phil Hanser, Principal, The Brattle Group
Location: Bldg. 56-114Methane Hydrates
06:00-07:00PM Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Leader: Dr. Carolyn Ruppel, Research Geophysicist/Visiting Scientist, USGS/MIT
Location: 3-133The EU's CO2 Trading System
06:00-07:00PM Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Leader: Dr. Denny Ellerman, MIT
Location: Building E51More Sustainable Transportation
06:00-07:00PM Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Leader: Professor John Heywood, Director, MIT Sloan Auto Lab
Location: Building E51State of Clean Energy and Challenges Ahead
06:00-07:00PM Thursday, October 04, 2007
Leader: Richard Ward, Jed Bailey, Aaron Brady, and Chris Hansen, Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA)
Location: Building E51Energy Security Policy and the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve
06:00-07:00PM Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Leader: Melanie Kenderdine, MIT
Location: Building E51Canada's Fourth Integrated Oil Sands Project
06:00-07:00PM Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Leader: Rolf Wuensche, President & CEO, Chem Tech Engineering & Consulting
Location: Building E51A Recipe for Moving Federal Climate Legislation Forward
06:00-07:00PM Wednesday, May 02, 2007
Leader: Michael Bradley, Founder and Principal, M.J. Bradley & Associates
Location: Building E51Transmission and Wind Energy
06:00-07:00PM Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Leader: Henri Daher, Principal Analyst, Transmission Regulation & Commerce, National Grid
Location: Building E51Toward Zero Energy and Beyond: Solar and Wind-Powered Buildings
06:00-07:00PM Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Leader: Steven Strong, Founder and President, Solar Design Associates
Location: Building E51Does Wall Street Move the Price of Oil? The Impact of Speculative Capital
06:00-07:00PM Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Leader: John Parsons, Executive Director, MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research
Location: Building E51Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage for A Sustainable Energy Future
06:00-07:00PM Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Leader: Professor Yang Shao-Horn, MIT
Location: Building E51Energy Politics
06:00-07:00PM Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Leader: Daniel Rice, Managing Director, BlackRock Advisors
Location: Building E51An Introduction to Electricity Law
06:00-07:00PM Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Leader: Don McCauley, Partner, McCauley Lyman
Location: Building E51Advanced Oil & Gas Exploration and Extraction Technology
06:00-07:00PM Wednesday, November 01, 2006
Leader: Richard Sears, Visiting Scientist, MIT
Location: Building E51The Challenges and Future of Fusion Energy
06:00-07:00PM Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Leader: Professor Jeffrey Freidberg, MIT
Location: Building E51Financing Renewable and Alternative Energy
06:00-07:00PM Wednesday, October 04, 2006
Leader: Steve Taub, GE Energy
Location: Building E51Energy and Manufacturing
06:00-07:00PM Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Leader: Professor Tim Gutowski, MIT
Location: Building E51Micro Cogeneration Technology
06:00-07:00PM Saturday, August 19, 2006
Leader: Dr. Eric Guyer, Climate Energy
Location: Building E51Powering the Planet: The Challenge for Chemistry in the 21st Century
06:00-07:00PM Thursday, May 11, 2006
Leader: Professor Dan Nocera, MIT
Location: Building E51The Future of Transportation
06:00-07:00PM Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Leader: Professor John Heywood, MIT
Location: Building E51DOE Energy Efficiency Standards
06:00-07:00PM Thursday, April 20, 2006
Leader: Stuart Chaitkin, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Location: Building E51Electricity Demand Management
06:00-07:00PM Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Leader: David Rose, Ambient Devices
Location: Building E51Massachusetts Renewable Portfolio Standard
06:00-07:00PM Friday, April 07, 2006
Leader: David O'Connor, Commissioner of Massachusetts Division of Energy Resources
Location: Building E51Distributed Solar Energy for Developing Countries
06:00-07:00PM Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Leader: John Rodgers, Founding member of Soluz
Location: Building E51The Restructured Energy Market: A Policy and Product Development Perspective
06:00-07:00PM Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Leader: Professor Frank Felder, Rutgers University & Stephen Fairfax, President, MTechnology
Location: Building E51Buildings & Energy
06:00-07:00PM Wednesday, March 01, 2006
Leader: James Butler, CTO, Cimetrics
Location: Building E51Integrated Flexible-Fuel Energy Systems
06:00-07:00PM Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Leader: Professor Ahmed Ghoniem, MIT
Location: Building E51A Conversation with John Deutch
06:00-07:00PM Wednesday, December 07, 2005
Leader: Professor John Deutch, MIT
Location: Building E51Special Lecture on Solar Power
06:00-07:00PM Friday, December 02, 2005
Leader: Professor Michael Greatzel, EPFL & Howard Berke, CEO, Konarka
Location: Building E51MIT Energy Usage
06:00-07:00PM Wednesday, November 16, 2005
Leader: Peter Cooper, Manager of Sustainable Engineering and Utility Planning, MIT Cogeneration Facility
Location: Building E51The Ins and Outs of Energy Consulting
06:00-07:00PM Wednesday, November 09, 2005
Leader: Stephen Pinkerton, Associate Director, Navigant Consulting
Location: Building E51The Future of Nuclear Power in the U.S
06:00-07:00PM Wednesday, October 26, 2005
Leader: Professor Andy Kadak, MIT
Location: Building E51The Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust
06:00-07:00PM Wednesday, May 11, 2005
Leader: Rob Pratt, Director, MA Renewable Energy Trust
Location: Building E51Solar Revolution: The Inevitable Shift in the Global Energy Industry
06:00-07:00PM Wednesday, May 04, 2005
Leader: Travis Bradford, Founder, Prometheus Institute
Location: Building E51The Future of Photovoltaics
06:00-07:00PM Wednesday, May 04, 2005
Leader: Professor Ely Sachs, MIT & Michael Rogol, MIT ESD Student
Location: Building E51Energy Activities in Boston
06:00-07:00PM Wednesday, April 27, 2005
Leader: Brad Swing, Special Assistant Energy Policy, Boston Mayor's Office of Environment and Energy
Location: Building E51Advanced Superconductor Technology and the Future Electric Grid
06:00-07:00PM Wednesday, April 13, 2005
Leader: Dr. Greg Yurek, CEO, American Superconductor
Location: Building E51An Insider's Perspective on Current Trends in Grid Operation, Integration, and Security
06:00-07:00PM Wednesday, April 06, 2005
Leader: Tom Bowe, PJM
Location: Building E51Offshore Wind Power
06:00-07:00PM Wednesday, March 16, 2005
Leader: Professor Paul Sclavounos, MIT
Location: Building E51Cape Wind: Utility-Scale Renewable Energy for Massachusetts
06:00-07:00PM Thursday, December 16, 2004
Leader: Mark Rodgers, Communications Director, Cape Wind
Location: Building E51Superconductors and the New Energy Economy
06:00-07:00PM Thursday, December 02, 2004
Leader: John Howe, VP Electric Industry Affairs, American Superconductor
Location: Building E51Sustainable Energy Efficient Buildings
06:00-07:00PM Thursday, November 18, 2004
Leader: Professor Leon Glicksman, MIT
Location: Building E51Conspiracy Theories: T&D Losses, Grid Investment, and Renewables Integration
06:00-07:00PM Thursday, November 04, 2004
Leader: Steve Connors, MIT LFEE
Location: Building E51Geothermal Power for Everyone: What Will It Take?
06:00-07:00PM Thursday, October 21, 2004
Leader: Professor Jeff Tester, MIT
Location: Building E51Near-Term Pathways to Energy Sustainability
06:00-07:00PM Wednesday, September 22, 2004
Leader: Professor David Marks, MIT
Location: Building E51
