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Researchers have discovered a way to draw potable water from air almost anywhere using solar power and a gel-like material that lasts for eight months or more. 

Yashee Mathur, PhD '26, is using machine learning and artificial intelligence to look underground for a carbon-free energy source that could be more abundant than natural gas.

From deep underground heat to solar on farms, researchers are leading efforts to make clean power affordable and reliable as energy costs rise and electricity demand climbs

From July to September 2025, Energy Science & Engineering PhD student Pietro Bosoni participated in a hybrid internship at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in Monterey through the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE), a workforce development program run by the U.S. Department of Energy.

With energy costs up and electricity demand climbing, Stanford researchers are leading efforts to make clean power cheaper and steadier while cutting the emissions that drive climate change. Experts Sally Benson, Will Chueh, and Yi Chueh discuss energy innovation and efforts to make clean electricity affordable for all and available around the clock.

With energy costs up and electricity demand climbing, Stanford researchers are leading efforts to make clean power affordable and reliable for all while cutting the emissions that drive climate change. Their work ranges from deep underground heat to solar on farms, renewable fuels, and upgrades for the power grid and batteries.

The Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, under the leadership of Professor Inês Azevedo, and in collaboration with the Consulate-General of Portugal in San Francisco, successfully hosted the event “Powering the Digital Transition in Portugal and California”

Simona Onori shares her lab's research in the longevity of lithium-ion batteries, showing that traditional methods for testing battery life are very stressful, and don't match the way batteries are actually used

Carlos Diaz-Marin and his colleagues are engineering inexpensive materials called hydrogels to collect water from the air, capture carbon from the atmosphere, and massively improve heating efficiency, among other sustainability challenges.

In Forbes '30 Under 30,' Stanford affiliates nab seven of energy category’s 30 spots