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PostFebruary 19, 2025

Reducing carbon emissions from residential heating: A pathway forward

MIT Energy Initiative

A modeling study by an MIT team has shown that electrifying residential heating can be a substantial step toward reducing carbon emissions, as well as costs, over the combined electricity and natural gas sectors. Here, the team poses beside a high-efficiency electric heat pump system that provides heating to the home, replacing the natural gas-fired furnace. Left to right: Audun Botterud, Saurabh Amin, Rahman Khorramfar, Morgan Santoni-Colvin, and Leslie Norford. Not pictured: Dharik Mallapragada.

PostApril 4, 2024

The heat is on: Accelerating climate action at a time of record-breaking te...

MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy

MIT Global Change Forum panel on climate communications

PostJanuary 2, 2024

Climate action, here and now

Hsu’s projects frequently yield practical and concrete steps for climate action.

PostAugust 2, 2023

Making Maine’s next generation of housing fossil-free — and affordable

MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative

PostJuly 26, 2023

These moisture-sucking materials could transform air conditioning

MIT Technology Review

PostJuly 13, 2023

Cutting urban carbon emissions by retrofitting buildings

MIT Energy Initiative

PhD candidate Zachary Berzolla SM ’21 (left), Professor Christoph Reinhart (right), and their colleagues have launched online simulation tools that enable urban policymakers to determine what building-retrofit incentives and other measures are needed to bring about a targeted reduction in their city’s carbon emissions.

PostJuly 7, 2023

So you want to use less home heating oil: A starter guide

MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative

A heat pump is seen on the side of a home in Aroostook County, near Mars Hill.

PostJuly 7, 2023

Hooked on heating oil: Pushing for heat pumps and weatherization

MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative

A heat pump is installed on a condo building in Portland's West End

PostJune 23, 2023

Panel addresses technologies needed for a net-zero future

MIT Energy Initiative

During the MIT Energy Initiative’s panel on energy innovation for a net-zero future, Senior Research Scientist Anuradha Annaswamy (center) and other speakers addressed areas where new or improved technologies or systems are needed to achieve global net-zero emissions goals.

PostJune 14, 2023

The surprising truth about which homes have heat pumps

MIT Technology Review

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