Featured Reports

Skyscraper-style chip design boosts electronic performance by factor of a thousand
December 9, 2015
Stanford News Service
Stanford engineers have created a new high-rise architecture for computing that will move more data, much faster, using far less energy.

Video: Germany's low-carbon future
December 8, 2015
New York Times
Dan Reicher discusses Germany’s introduction of renewable energy sources during The International New York Times Energy for Tomorrow conference in Paris.

How India’s solar ambitions can become reality
December 8, 2015
Wall Street Journal Blog
Steyer-Taylor Center researchers outline a roadmap for India's recent pledge to increase solar power more than 20-fold by 2022.

Global fossil-fuel emissions could decline in 2015, study finds
December 7, 2015
Precourt Institute for Energy
A Stanford-led research team reports that the rapid increase in global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels has slowed in the past two years, underlining the need for action to permanently lower emissions.

Mugged by reality
December 7, 2015
Huffington Post
Dan Rather interviews former Secretary of State George Shultz, a prominent member of the Republican Party, about the politics of global climate change.

Silicon Valley’s new power player: China
December 4, 2015
Fortune
Chinese venture capitalists are buying up U.S. companies to power China’s emerging clean-tech revolution—and getting very rich in the process.

Precourt Institute and TomKat Center award $2.1 million for energy research
December 2, 2015
Precourt Institute for Energy
Stanford's Precourt Institute and TomKat Center have awarded 12 faculty seed grants totaling $2.1 million for groundbreaking research on clean energy.

Storing solar energy underground for a cloudy day
November 23, 2015
Stanford Report
Mark Jacobson proposes an underground solution to the problem of storing surplus renewable energy for on-demand use on the electric grid.

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