The Energy Initiative supports and promotes a wide variety of energy-related research across the university, ranging from projects by individual investigators to activities that partner our faculty, staff and students with outside institutions, corporations, governments and non-governmental organizations. In every case, our researchers work to maintain the highest standards of intellectual rigor, transparency and objectivity. 

Current energy research focal points at Duke include new energy materials and fuels; energy economics and modeling for improved energy policies and market decisions; energy data analytics to inform energy production and use; and science and technologies for reducing the impact of energy on the environment.

The Energy Initiative supports this research by providing direct seed funding for new investigations and access to other financial and human resources. We organize and sponsor workshops and seminars where current research results may be shared. We keep a database of energy-focused faculty and staff that can be searched for collaborators and subject-matter experts, or simply browsed to view the broad range of inquiry being pursued at Duke.