MIT ENERGY INITIATIVE

We work with decision-makers, large companies, and entrepreneurs in numerous countries to understand regulatory and business model best-practices. We evaluate complex systems affecting energy access through the combination of field experience and academic knowledge from multiple disciplines including economics, law, political science, and engineering. Among other projects, we are currently working with the Rockefeller Foundation as the core research team behind the Global Commission to End Energy Poverty (GCEEP). GCEEP ™s mission is to forge an actionable consensus among leading investors, utilities, and policy-makers to lay out a viable pathway for cost-effectively and expeditiously providing electricity services to hundreds of millions of under-served homes and businesses. Our approach, termed the Integrated Distribution Framework (IDF), seeks to address the existing problems that cripple incumbent distribution utilities and discourage any further electrification efforts, while..