Precourt Institute for Energy

Learn how to apply integrative design to radically improve energy efficiency while sustaining or enhancing the quality of your life or your products and services.

More than 80 top energy experts – including Condoleezza Rice and Jennifer Granholm – recently convened at Stanford to discuss ways to modernize the national grid and meet increased energy demand.

The new process uses heat to transform common minerals into materials that permanently sequester atmospheric carbon dioxide.

According to new research, greenhouse gas emissions, energy consumption, and water usage are all meaningfully reduced when – instead of mining for new metals – batteries are recycled.

A thorough analysis of market and supply chain outcomes for sodium-ion batteries and their lithium-ion competitors is the first by STEER, a new Stanford and SLAC energy technology analysis program.

Consumers’ real-world stop-and-go driving of electric vehicles benefits batteries more than the steady use simulated in almost all laboratory tests of new battery designs, Stanford-SLAC study finds.

The philanthropist and Stanford alum, who has died at the age of 87, invigorated the conversation about sustainability – at Stanford and globally.

A new method for extracting lithium from briny water could help meet growing demand for the element while reducing its ecological footprint.

For making the complex electric grids of tomorrow reliable, improved coordination of demands and resources can accomplish more at far less expense than widespread and costly infrastructure upgrades, a new study shows.

The Explore Energy and Outdoor houses, each home to more than 80 students, facilitate discussion about sustainability and conservation.