MIT teams with BP on clean energy

Massachusetts Institute of Technology has teamed up with British Petroleum to research clean coal technology.

The partnership will establish an energy research program, the BP-MIT Advanced Conversion Research Project, which will investigate ways to convert coal and coal-like energies into liquid and gassified fuels and chemicals while reducing coal’s notorious carbon dioxide emissions.


BP (NYSE: BP) is the first member of the MIT Energy Initiative, created in 2006 to investigate energy issues and develop alternative technologies to traditional fossil fuel methods.

“This exciting partnership between MIT and BP epitomizes what the MIT Energy Initiative is designed to accomplish: the pairing of innovative MIT researchers across the entire campus with results-oriented scientists, engineers and planners in industry, working together to transform the world’s energy marketplace,” MIT President Susan Hockfield said.

The program will also provide seed funding for energy research concepts developed by students. BP will support ten energy fellows each year of the five-year partnership.

Boston Business Journal