News & Comment

Renewable energy technologies do not always employ sustainable resources. The scarcity of cobalt supply must be addressed in transportation electrification.

The renewal of Mission Innovation is important — but more targeted interventions are needed to deliver on necessary energy-innovation goals.

Black and African American people face systematic disadvantages in energy costs and limited access to renewable energy benefits. Addressing these disparities is an important part of achieving racial justice.

Coronavirus-imposed restrictions are putting great strain on academia and the research community but there may be a silver lining in all the commotion.

Policy should pay closer attention to the increasing body of research on the links between energy, climate and health.

Recovery efforts in the wake of COVID-19 must invest in energy systems that will prove cleaner and more resilient in the face of future disasters.

Energy is consumed in social environments and in the presence of social peers. But social interactions do not just happen alongside energy behaviour — the two are intrinsically linked.

More frequent and graver extreme events continue to remind us of the perils of climate change, but systematic consideration of these extremes in energy systems studies and full accounting of their impacts remains a challenge.

Although several companies are now working on the industrialization of perovskite solar cells, important questions around module reliability remain.