Current and potential initiatives include:

• Prospects for scaling up electrification (transportation, industrial use, and residential sectors)
• Accelerating the energy transition
• Impacts of backup requirements on deployment of renewables
• Economic and environmental consequences of large‑scale deployment of nuclear energy and carbon capture and storage (coal‑, natural gas‑, and biomass‑based)
• Economics and geopolitics for natural gas in different regions of the world
• Predictability and synchronicity of intermittent renewable energy (wind and solar)
• Evaluation of costs of alternative technologies for electricity generation
• Carbon capture and storage in industrial applications (cement, iron and steel, refineries)
• Role of hydrogen and other energy carriers
• Ability of managed water systems to meet irrigation demands for biofuels
• Scenarios of a low-carbon future
• Energy and economic impacts of different policy instruments

Center members are eligible to explore additional topics based on areas of mutual interest.