The MIT Energy Initiative’s (MITEI) Future Energy Systems Center will fund ten new projects, with topics ranging from distributed energy resources to electrolyzer design. Several projects relate to the challenge of sustainably powering data centers as well as the potential opportunities for artificial intelligence (AI) to optimize clean energy development, which align with MITEI’s ongoing efforts to address the challenge of data center energy demand. The selected projects will receive a combined total of $2.4 million in funding.

These new projects bring the total number of Future Energy Systems Center-supported projects to 63. As MITEI’s industry research consortium, the Center conducts integrated energy system analyses to provide insight into the technology, policy, and economics behind the evolving energy landscape—drawing from both traditional energy-related disciplines and cross-disciplinary fields.

This was the Center’s seventh round of project selections, which are selected twice a year by a Steering Committee comprised of MIT faculty members based on nominations from Center Member companies, project impact, and balancing of the Center’s portfolio. MITEI will host kick-off meetings for each of these new projects at the Center’s Fall 2025 workshop.

Brief descriptions of each of the new projects follow.

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