Message from the Executive Director

Energy Research at Georgia Tech

Few sectors affect the prosperity of every sphere of economic and social life or exert as much direct influence on general technological progress than energy. Concerns surrounding climate change, cost, equity, and security, have brought the development of a clean and diverse energy portfolio to the forefront of the national conversation.

Founded in 2004, the Strategic Energy Institute serves as system integrator for the more than 1000 campus researchers working across the entire energy value chain.  We are deeply engaged in building community, developing resources, and projecting thought leadership, all with the aim of marshalling the full resources of Georgia Tech around tackling the tough energy and environmental problems society faces. 

As the nation’s largest technologically focused university, Georgia Tech is playing an integral role in developing the technologies that are enabling more equitable, lower cost, and cleaner generation, storage, distribution, and utilization of energy. Researchers at Georgia Tech are not just helping to create cleaner, more efficient fuel options or mitigate the environmental impact of conventional energy supplies, they are creating better performing, more economically viable energy options.

We invite you to explore the people and projects as well as the science and technologies that are creating a clean energy future.

Tim Lieuwen
Executive Director