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To learn more about our spring term, please visit the Updates for Students page.
Mitigating Climate Change through Innovative Energy Storage Applications
The transition from humanity’s reliance on fossil fuels to renewables is key to climate change mitigation. Energy storage is necessary to achieve such goals. With the advent of electric vehicles, we can see the transition beginning. You are tasked with developing a new application where energy storage will help revolutionize how humanity is powered.
The overall objective is to accelerate adoption of energy storage to enable wider use of renewables, and this can be achieved by new applications or novel products that make it easier to use batteries.
Your goal is to develop a novel application of battery technology that lowers reliance on fossil fuel. For example, can we electrify food carts, ferries, camping equipment, or replace diesel generators, or develop new charging infrastructure, or disconnect homes from the grid?
Assume you have between $10 million and $10 billion to spend, depending on market size. You must pair the right technology with the application. Applications should have impact as measured by reducing CO2 emissions or indirectly by inspiring society to think differently about renewables.
Your efforts will be judged according to: