Initiatives, Centers & Programs
The following centers, programs and initiatives are significant strands in the fabric of interdisciplinary energy research at Stanford.
Aqueous Battery Consortium
The Aqueous Battery Consortium is a large group of scientists from 15 research institutions seeking to invent a reliable, safe, environmentally sustainable, long-lasting, and inexpensive battery powerful enough to support a local electricity grid.
Bits & Watts Initiative
The Stanford Energy Bits & Watts Initiative develops innovations for the electric grid needed to enable reliance on intermittent power and distributed energy resources, while keeping the grid secure and affordable.
Climate & Energy Policy Program
The Climate and Energy Policy Program (CEPP) operates at the interface of policy analysis, academic research and education, and stakeholder engagement.
Energy Modeling Forum
The Energy Modeling Forum (EMF) improves understanding of energy/environment problems and solutions. It examines the strengths and limitations of alternative models and analytical approaches.
George P. Shultz Energy Policy Working Group
The George P. Shultz Energy Policy Working Group takes a balanced approach toward sustaining the economic, environmental, and security dimensions of energy policy.
Global Climate & Energy Project
The Global Climate & Energy Project (GCEP) was a $225-million sponsored-research program that helped launch multi-disciplinary energy research at Stanford. It funded research projects at Stanford and at leading institutions around the world.
Hydrogen Initiative
The Stanford Energy Hydrogen Initiative supports research to accelerate the use of hydrogen in achieving sustainable, affordable, secure energy for all people.
Natural Gas Initiative
The Natural Gas Initiative, a joint program of the School for Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences and the Precourt Institute for Energy, investigates how to use natural gas to its greatest benefit. Members of this affiliate program support Stanford research in engineering, science, policy, geopolitics, and business.
Program on Energy & Sustainable Development
Freeman Spogli Institute's Program on Energy & Sustainable Development (PESD) draws on economics, political science, law and management to investigate how real energy markets work. It informs policy makers around the world on the impacts of those markets.
SLAC-Stanford Battery Center
The center at SLAC aims to bridge the gaps between discovering, manufacturing and deploying innovative energy storage solutions.
Visit SLAC-Stanford Battery Center
Stanford Center for Carbon Storage
The Stanford Center for Carbon Storage (SCCS) uses a multidisciplinary approach to address critical questions related to flow physics, monitoring, geochemistry, geomechanics, and simulation of the transport and fate of CO2 stored in geologic formations.
Stanford Environmental & Energy Policy Analysis Center
The Stanford Environmental & Energy Policy Analysis Center (SEEPAC) analyzes and evaluates policies to address issues such as climate change, air pollution, vulnerability to oil supply disruptions and energy conservation.
Stanford Institute for Materials & Energy Sciences
The Stanford Institute for Materials & Energy Sciences (SIMES), which is jointly run by SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford, researches combinations of complex and novel materials for clean and economical energy.
STEER
STEER is a partnership between the SLAC-Stanford Battery Center and the Precourt Institute for Energy using deep technoeconomic analysis, supply chain modeling, and market demand forecasts to guide “What to build” for the energy transition.
StorageX Initiative
The Stanford Energy StorageX Initiative addresses gaps between academic and industrial R &D by accelerating the development, translation and adoption of energy storage solutions.
Strategic Energy Alliance
Large global companies support energy research and education at Stanford through the Precourt Institute's Strategic Energy Alliance as sponsored research, pooled funds and gifts.
SUNCAT Center for Interface Science & Catalysis
The SUNCAT Center, which is jointly run by SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford, explores atomic-scale design of catalysts critical to future energy technologies, like artificial photosynthesis, batteries, fuel cells and cleaner fuels.
Sustainable Finance Initiative
The Stanford Energy Sustainable Finance Initiative works to accelerate funding for the decarbonization of global systems by developing advanced policies and financial mechanisms, educating leaders, and engaging global policy and finance.
Technology Transfer for Defense
The Technology Transfer for Defense (TT4D) Program transitions academic technologies from the lab to the marketplace and transitions emerging technology products into defense capabilities.
TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy
The TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy has a portfolio of programs and activities that empower students, researchers, and innovators. They support the translation of research in sustainability toward commercialization and as deployable solutions. In education, it awards graduate fellowships, summer internships, and project grants.