MIT Energy Conference | The world’s top thinkers come to MIT for one primary reason — conducting and relying on fact-based analysis to devise solutions to our toughest problems. Today there is no problem more complex than the provision of energy to more than six billion people reliably and cheaply. Each proposed solution must meet significant system challenges — technical, policy, public acceptance, etc. — at a very large scale and within a short time period to be noticed. With the global economy, environment and security at stake, we must do our best to assess limits and potential impacts before moving forward.

This year’s conference theme — Confronting Limits with Fact-based Analysis — leverages MIT’s core strengths to explore the limits of specific technologies, funding mechanisms, and other proposed energy system transformations.